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Tailored to Fit: The Palmer/Pletsch Tissue Fitting Method

 

Tailored to Fit: The Palmer/Pletsch Tissue Fitting Method

 

Class Description


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.  

Lessons

  1. Class Introduction
  2. What is Tissue Fitting?
  3. Tools for Tissue Fitting and Measuring High Bust
  4. Prepping the Pattern
  5. Making Alterations on the Pattern for Hourglass Figure
  6. Working with Darts
  7. Tissue Fitting on a High-Low Round Back
  8. Tissue Fitting Full Bust/Broad Back
  9. Tissue Fitting for High Bust/Straight Back/ Making a Y-Bust
  10. Fit and Alter the Sleeve
  11. Fit and Alter the Skirt
  1. Altering Fashion Pattern: Side Panel Blouse
  2. Altering Fashion Pattern: Knits
  3. How to Stabilize the Back, Neck and Front Edges
  4. Altering Fashion Pattern: Princess Bust
  5. Working with a Non-Palmer/Pletsch Pattern
  6. How to Tissue Fit Without a Partner

Reviews

user-7c3291
 

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