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Every Sewer's Guide to the Perfect Fit: Customizing Your Patterns for a Sensational Look

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Real women, with normal figures of all types, are the key feature in this fitting book. Unlike fashion magazines and dress pattern catalogs which use slim, young models to make the CLOTHES look great, this book shows how to fit clothes to make the average WOMAN look great! Sewing skills are needed but once you have followed the directions and made the suggested pattern adjustments as a master pattern, you can adjust any commercial pattern to fit you perfectly with very little fuss. This is especially helpful for older woman whose figures have changed over time. But any woman can have "tailor-made" fit with this book. Try it!

I've been sewing for twenty some years. In that time I read lots of books on fitting and gone to various classes. This is the ONLY place I have gotten information on how to adjust a dolman and a raglan sleeve for a larger then standard bust.

This book assumes you have no fitting skills. It tells you all the tools you will need. They tell about fitting shells and why shells from different pattern companies might serve you better. The authors tell you how to adjust the pattern for your figure. This book will give you the information you need to get a better fit.

This book helped me (finally!) to understand how patterns worked and why things I had made were not turning out as I had hoped. There is quite a bit of explaination about why you're doing things. Clear easy to follow pitcures and instructions. I made a great pair of pants and will turn to it every time I have a new project.

After reading the customer reviews, I purchased this book. I was extremely disappointed, as the authors address only basic fitting for slight adjustments in flat patterns, which are not usually helpful for adjusting to persons with real shape problems and especially not helpful for those with a very large bust. Also, the book does not address the many small adjustments that are necessary for a really great fit. I would suggest it only to those who are able to use commercial flat (vs multi-seamed and contoured)patterns and need only small adjustments.

This book helps you figure out your figure. I learned things I never knew about altering patterns and getting a good fit. I use this book as a resource and enjoy it. The instructions are fairly clear. I would recommend you have some sewing basics before using the book.

It does show how to alter patterns using the cut, pivot, slide methods. However, it doesn't show what bad fit looks like and then link that to the pattern alteration needed. If you need to see what needs to happen if, for example, your side seams swing forward, your neck gapes, your pants have smiles or frowns... then this book isn't for you. I'm returning it at my expense.

I have a shelf full of fitting books, but it was this one that finally enabled me to have a great-fitting pair of pants. The alteration instructions for fitting the crotch curve of pants in this book are stellar, along with the measurement chart, detailing how to take a really really detailed set of measurements for fitting. My hips are 3-4 pant sizes larger than my waist, a very definite pear shape no matter what my weight, so I needed LARGE alterations to have pants that fit both in the hips and the waist. The methods described in this book gave truly excellent results, and now I can just take the measurement chart I filled out and photocopied to pin on my sewing area wall and alter a new pants pattern relatively painlessly and accurately each and every time without much fine tuning fitting needed during the actual sewing.