Fitting Books
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Altering Women's Ready-to-Wear
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Have you bought or sewn clothes that don't fit! Have you gained or lost weight! Whether you want to alter your own clothing or do alterations for others, this book is for you! You will see how to mark, rip, sew, and press the easiest and the most troublesome alterations. Learn speed techniques, quick fixes, and hundreds of alterations. Included is a complete suggested price list.

Fast Fit
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A must-have addition to every garment sewer's library, Fast Fit simplifies the most complex part of garment sewing: fitting patterns. In her trademark lively and accessible manner, Sandra Betzina makes the process of pattern altering fun. Whether you're small or tall, thin or average size, short-waisted or long-limbed, Betzina isolates the particular pattern problem and walks you through simple, step-by-step answers. No math, no theories. Just solutions!

 

Fit for Real People
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Make clothes fit beautifully - the first time! This book from the experts at Palmer Pletsch shows REAL people, fitted step-by-step. You'll get tips and ideas for fitting all shapes, sizes, and ages - from pre-teen to octogenarian. You can sew great clothes from any pattern using the fitting techniques you'll learn here. Good fit is never a waste of time!

Pants for Real People
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Brand new from the fitting experts at Palmer/Pletsch, Pants for Real People is the most complete and innovative book ever written on fitting and sewing pants. Pati Palmer and Marta Alto make pant fitting so logical that even a beginner can follow. Clear and easy to understand, with over 850 illustrations and 250 photographs of REAL people being fitted in pants. You’ll learn how to fit yourself, as well as hundreds of techniques for waistbands, zippers, pockets, hems, linings, jumpsuits, men’s pants, maternity, designing and more. This is a companion book to Fit for Real People, below, but it stands on its own as well!

Jackets for Real People
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Use this book and ALL of your sewing will improve. For a minimal investment and a little time, you can have a designer jacket. Using the latest interfacings, sew it Armani-style and achieve a custom fit no matter what your figure. Includes pattern and fabric selections, patterns and fabrics, fitting on real people, the latest on fusible interfacings, cutting and marking tips, how-tos for buttonholes, a NO-FAIL welt pocket, "bagging a lining", easy mitered vents, and much more.