Custom Fitting: Waist & Hips
Master flat pattern adjustments for skirts and pants that make you look and feel your best. Cater to any figure variation with custom fitting for the…
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Master flat pattern adjustments for skirts and pants that make you look and feel your best. Cater to any figure variation with custom fitting for the waist, tummy, hips and seat.
Introduction
Meet your instructor, Kathleen Cheetham, and discover the types of alterations you’ll learn how to make on commercial patterns to get the perfect fit in skirts and pants.
Pattern Sizing & Crotch Depth
Using the sizing guide on a commercial pattern is just the starting point, and it might even be the wrong one! Kathleen shows you how to measure for hips and get the right pattern size, then jumps into making the most critical adjustment for well-fitted pants: the crotch depth.
Hip Adjustments
Whether you’re dealing with hips that are wide and low, narrow and high or anything in-between, Kathleen has guidance for you. Even asymmetrical hips won’t pose a challenge when you’re done.
Adjusting the Tummy
A full abdomen doesn’t always mean fullness everywhere else. Kathleen shows you how to combine multiple sizes of pattern pieces and use the slash-and-pivot method of adjustment to get that fullness right where you need it. You’ll see how to adjust for a concave tummy, too.
Adjusting the Seat
The same rules for abdomen adjustments can be translated to the back. Kathleen shows you how to adapt your pattern pieces for a variety of derrières, whether full or flat.
Refining the Waist
Whenever you make adjustments below the waist, your waistband is likely to need tweaking. You might find it best to make a yoke for your pants or skirt, or draft a new waistband. Kathleen makes it a breeze!
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