Tailored to Fit: The Palmer/Pletsch Tissue Fitting Method with Pati Palmer, Marta Alto

I have been sewing for over 40 years and I learned so many new tricks to pattern fit. I have been frustrated many times when I fit my pattern as I get ready to cut to my fabric. I usually sew couture garments using Vogue patterns and others. This has been so helpful as I continue my sewing! I do appreciate this class. It has been very beneficial and I certainly recommend it to any beginner seamstress or someone who has been sewing for decades. Thanks again for this free class. Now I just wish I could find couture fabrics in our area.

I have tried multiple times to make clothing for myself. But they never come out fitting me right. I bought the Palmer/Pletsch Complete fit guide book first, that helped but I wasn’t familiar with the terms and order of the tissue fitting. This video helped everything come together in my head. 😂 I can’t wait to try tissue fitting my patterns. I even ordered some Palmer/Pletsch patterns so I could have some with the fit lines already on them. I am confident this class is going to step up my sewing game!! Thanks for having this online class!!

Very detailed, lots of helpful information and demonstrations and has spurred me on to correct a couple of long term fit problems in patterns which I can now use without fear, so very happy with this. I have a little pattern cutting experience and found the class materials sufficient without needing to buy the book also. You can use the techniques to adapt any sewing pattern. Highly recommended.

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.

I have been trying to get the book Fit for Real People but it is out of stock. When I saw this class I thought I try it and I got it on sale . It was a wonderful class and being a beginner I found it very easy to follow. I would highly recommend this class to anyone who wants to learn tissue fitting.

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!

I have used the Fit for Real People book as a go to for fitting since I began sewing eight years ago. I now recommend it to students who take sewing classes with me. It has great visuals on how to read what fabric/patterns are trying to tell you about your specific body shape. This class is a great visual to show how the process goes along. If you have trouble with fitting yourself, creating a dress form of your body can be a great way of making this process easier.

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!

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