Don’t settle for clothes that don’t fit! Learn how to customize patterns so they are perfectly suited to your body type in Tailored to Fit: The Palmer/Pletsch Tissue-Fitting Method with Pati Palmer and Marta Alto.

Pati and Marta have spent over 30 years developing the Palmer/Pletsch Tissue-Fitting Method and in this class they will show you how it works.

You’ll learn:

A better way to fit yourself, eliminating the need to take so many body measurements
Identify the areas of your pattern that need adjustment
Tips for fitting a sheath dress (both bodice and skirt) to your body type

Pati and Marta will help you sew for your real-world curves. You’ll learn how to adjust a pattern to fit a large bust, a sway back, rounded shoulders, a broad back, and many other common features. They will share techniques developed over three decades of sewing that are guaranteed to lend a tailored look.

Learn how you vary from a standardized pattern and alter the tissue to fit you using the Palmer/Pletsch Tissue Fitting Method. After watching Pati and Marta at work, you'll be able to customize patterns so your handmade garments look and feel awesome.

Class Materials

Free Downloads

Class Resources

How to Buy the Right Size Pattern

Sheath Dress Press Release

Bonus Materials with Purchase

Body Map Pattern Alteration Worksheet

Fitting Order For Tops

Size Education

Tailored to Fit Y Bust Tips

Ratings and Reviews

Student Work

Pati Palmer is the author or editor/publisher of dozens of sewing books and how-to DVD’s and creator of eight Palmer/Pletsch sewing notion products, including PerfectFuse™ Interfacings. . Palmer has also been designing for The McCall Pattern Co. since 1980, and Vogue prior to that. She has written the

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Marta Alto

Marta Alto taught costume design at San Francisco State. She then did custom sewing for a major department store where she and met Pati Palmer. She ran its sewing school in four stores. Marta traveled for Palmer/Pletsch teaching sewing Ultrasuede, tailoring, and fit classes throughout North America and Australia. She is co-author of Fit For Real People and other books with Pati Palmer and the duo developed the Palmer/Pletsch Tissue-Fitting Method and continue to refine and improve it through hands-on classes.

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topics covered in this class

Sewing Fashion Design

Reviews

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This is one of the best courses I have taken online; I just wish you had the ability to make notes or tabs so you could refer back to certain sections more easily. I have met and followed Pati Palmer for many years but this was my first experience listening to Marta Alto and I see why they work so well together. Thank you both for sharing your many years of experience. It was interesting to hear Pati's history on many things and I really loved Marta's sense of humour it makes watching so much more fun!

Leslie coduti

I sew very well, imagine the disappointment when what I have sewn just does not fit well. Everyone who sews and wants what they have sewn to really be a joy to wear should take this course. It is like being there in the actual workshop. I am only half way through in the viewing and am anxious to apply what I have seen to my own sewing. It has been presented so well and in such detail that one comes away with confidence that they too can do this. I am also impatient, making a muslin takes time. Time is so precious and time to sew is really hard to come by. I have tissue fit pants in a workshop in Michigan and used a Palmer-Pletch pattern for a princess line dress I made in silk on my own. Both items fit my mature figure beautifully, and I did not have to make a muslin first for either one! When you hear, "What you see is what you get" believe it. Take this class, it will improve your fitting ability immensely and you won't believe how easy it is.

Rose Mellor

Love this program! Being able to watch the lessons multiple times is like taking the class over and over. For those of us who have a hard time learning something new this is sensational. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Rose Mellor

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Tailored to Fit: The Palmer/Pletsch Tissue Fitting Method

Lessons

Class Introduction

What is Tissue Fitting?

Tools for Tissue Fitting and Measuring High Bust

Prepping the Pattern

Making Alterations on the Pattern for Hourglass Figure

Working with Darts

Tissue Fitting on a High-Low Round Back

Tissue Fitting Full Bust/Broad Back

Tissue Fitting for High Bust/Straight Back/ Making a Y-Bust

Fit and Alter the Sleeve

Fit and Alter the Skirt

Altering Fashion Pattern: Side Panel Blouse

Altering Fashion Pattern: Knits

How to Stabilize the Back, Neck and Front Edges

Altering Fashion Pattern: Princess Bust

Working with a Non-Palmer/Pletsch Pattern

How to Tissue Fit Without a Partner

Class Description