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Learn what you need to know to sew better with Sewing Expert Marta Alto from Palmer/Pletsch.
Marta Alto shows you her tips and techniques to make sewing fast and trouble free. Marta shares the most important things you need to sew well and identifies products that make sewing easier and /or better.
This is a good introduction or re-introduction to sewing…truly 21st Century Sewing!
Learn the basics of choosing the right size, tissue-fitting, altering and fabric-fitting in this interactive DVD.
Marta Alto fits a model who needs the most common alterations for the bust, back, shoulders and sleeves. She demonstrates the same alterations on 3 styles of tops - a fitted shirt, a loose fitting jacket and a fitted princess jacket with a straight skirt.
You will learn to easily make these common alterations.
Pati Palmer, McCall's Fit Expert, has been designing jeans patterns for McCall's since the 1980s. Marta Alto has perfected sewing jeans details. Together they show you how to achieve the look and fit you want, beginning with the right size pattern. Learn the latest way to tissue-fit your jeans pattern: first tissue-fit like any pant, then give it the “jeans fit” in fabric--all before you do any sewing. See jeans in many fabrics (Marta's favorite: all-bias jeans!) and learn about fabric selection and preshrinking, notions needed, and topstitching threads. Watch Marta sew a pair of jeans from start to finish, including jeans details and how they go together, plus seam options--flat-felled or mock flat-felled. Whether your figure type is full, petite, or curvy, you'll see how to fit YOUR body.
3-hour Two-DVD Set
Marta Alto shows you how to fit, cut, mark, and sew two styles of shirts. One has a collar with a band, the other a convertible (fold back or button up) collar. She covers fit, fabrics, choosing the right interfacing, sleeve placket and cuffs, hems, and buttonholes. Marta can make a quality shirt in two hours or less. Each one you make will be faster and easier to sew!
2 hours 7 minutes DVD
What you need to know about style, line, design, and color to flatter you.
Featuring wardrobe consultant Nancy Nix-Rice and based on the classic wardrobe book, Looking Good. Learn how to look like a million NOW —not after you lose 20 pounds, win the lottery, or build a bigger closet.
Learn to Fit any Style Pant...with fit guru Pati Palmer from Palmer/Pletsch.
Pati Palmer shows you how to buy the right size pattern and tissue-fit yourself. She fits both a fitted style and a trouser, showing you how to make alterations and fine tune the pattern before cutting. Then Pati tries on the pin-fitted pant in fabric and "tweaks" the fit. She also shows how to tissue-fit and fabric-fit a waistband the easy way.
Note: There is a companion book from Palmer/Pletsch "Pants for Real People".
Learn to Sew any Style Pant... with sewing expert Marta Alto from Palmer/Pletsch
Marta Alto sews a fitted pant and a trouser, beginning with trying on an altered tissue to fine tune before cutting. Marta sews for herself to show how one does it on oneself!
You too, will have great looking pants that flatter YOU!
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