JEANS THAT FIT 5-DAY WORKSHOP • VANCOUVER

Your instructor, Helen Bartley, pant fitting expert and author of Fit and Sew Custom Jeans, will guide you through five days of fitting and sewing your best jeans.

Learn how to achieve the look and fit you want. The workshop includes the Palmer/Pletsch jeans pattern, which we have sewn in every size for you to try on, but you may sew any jeans pattern printed on tissue. You will learn how to choose the best pattern size based on your fit needs and your fabric.

See jeans in many fabrics and styles, bootcut to boyfriend to skinny, and learn about fabric selection, preshrinking and notions needed. Whether your figure type is full, petite, or curvy, we will focus on fitting YOUR body.

Tissue fit. Fabric fit. Sew your jeans! 

You will learn how to alter your pattern and to fit as you sew. Helen will demonstrate sewing all the jeans pockets, traditional jeans fly zipper, threads and techniques for topstitching, waistbands, belt carriers, button, buttonholes, and rivets.

Jeans Making Kit 

For your convenience, we are offering a kit for sale that includes pattern, preshrunk denim, PerfectFuse Medium interfacing for waistband, PerfectFuse Sheer interfacing for stabilizing, threads, zipper, and hardware-everything you need to sew your perfect jeans. See the “Bring List” for ordering information or email helen@seamdivas.com.

We strongly recommend taking our 4-day Pant Fit and Sewing Workshop or the 5-day Design-Fit-Sew Pants Workshop as a prerequisite.

The workshop includes our Palmer/Pletsch straight-leg jeans pattern Butterick 6840 and lunches.