FASHION FIT THE UPPER BODY 2-DAY WORKSHOP • VANCOUVER
$395.00
Learn the Palmer/Pletsch Tissue-Fitting Method. Fit, alter, and fabric-fit a blouse. Learn about PerfectFuse interfacing and how to use it in a blouse. Includes Palmer/Pletsch shirt pattern Butterick 6842 and lunches.
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Learn to Tissue Fit and Fabric Fit
In this 2-day class you will learn to tissue-fit a simple blouse. We will give you a comprehensive presentation of The Palmer/Pletsch Tissue-Fitting Method. You’ll measure for size, tissue-fit a blouse or shirt pattern, alter it to fit you, then cut from fabric and pin-fit to make minor adjustments. The alterations made on this blouse will show how you differ from a commercial pattern.
Learn to choose the best interfacing for your fabric and properly fuse the interfacing to the facings. You may tissue-fit additional style tops if time allows.
Mini Sewing Vacations are limited to 6 students per instructor.
The workshop includes lunch, the Palmer/Pletsch “Perfect Shirt” blouse pattern Butterick 6842.
Take Fashion Fitting the Upper Body again.
The study of fit is ongoing. As fashion changes, there are new fit challenges. You will have two full days to tissue-fit and fabric-fit any top or dress patterns you desire. Bring questions you want answered, and plan to spend time watching others being fit—there is much to learn in that process!
And again, and again…
Continue to refine and MASTER your fitting and sewing skills under our expert guidance. If you teach fit, you will want to watch even more bodies being fitted and more alteration challenges tackled. You will truly achieve your masters in fit!
This class is held at Sew-Op + Maker Space in Vancouver, WA, across the Columbia River from Portland, OR.
For Portlanders who don’t often cross the river, it’s easy. Traveling north on I-5, take Mill Plain exit toward Port of Vancouver, stay in the left lane. (The far left lane is not Mill Plain.) Turn left at light and move to the right lane. You are now on 15th Street. Turn right on Broadway. Sew-Op is in the green building on right—the first building you come to.
There is 2-hour free street parking in front of Sew-Op and extended parking four blocks east. For closer parking download the convenient Parking Kitty app. Use this City of Vancouver Parking Map to find more parking locations.
1507 Broadway, Vancouver, WA 98663
near the corner of E. 15th and Broadway. Use the parking map link button above to find parking near Sew-Op.
The Book You’ll Want to Have—The Palmer/Pletsch Complete Guide to Fitting
Sew Great Clothes for Every Body. Fit Any Fashion Pattern
by Pati Palmer and Marta Alto
With this guide to fitting you’ll learn all facets of bodice and skirt pattern fitting and alteration to give you the background and guidance needed to achieve a custom fit on any pattern from any company. Winner of the Independent Book Publishers Association Benjamin Franklin Silver Award in the 2019 “Craft & Hobby, Home & Garden” book category. For specific fitting guidance for pants, see Pants for Real People, and for comprehensive fitting of jackets, see Jackets for Real People.
Amelia, from the UK, says: “I started dressmaking about two years ago. I am obsessed with fit, but have never got it quite right until I bought the Palmer/Pletsch Complete Guide to Fitting. Wow! Your book has transformed my sewing and made me understand about fit and how to achieve it. I’m telling all my sewing buddies about it! What a difference this has made—although I now seem to be even more picky! I now realize how awful the fit is with all my ready-to-wear clothes!”
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