Tailored to Fit: The Palmer/Pletsch Tissue Fitting Method

Lesson Info

What is Tissue Fitting?

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

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

Reviews

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!
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
Having had the book (Fit For Real People) for some time I still couldn't quite get my head around tissue fitting. This course was so well presented that it was like a light bulb going on in my head. Tissue fitting is so much clearer to me now and, of course, I can re-visit the lessons whenever I want ... all in all a fantastic course and I highly recommend it!