Sure-Fit-Designs-Learning-Center Video Category - Dress Kit Fitting & Designing

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Note: here is the designation code for each major category:

General Information/Interest Videos = GI

Ordering - Products - Discount Package Combos = OP

Dress Kit Videos = D

Pants Kit Videos = P

Shirt Kit Videos = S

Children's Kit Videos = C

Men's Instructional Package Videos = MP

Plus Size Videos = PS

Sewing Tips, Techniques & Construction Videos = SC

Beginner's Sewing Series - Make it Sew = MIS

Sure-Fit Designs™ Dress Kit Videos (D)

SFD Bodice Fitting Course on DVD - a quick introduction & overview

D.1 Introduction - Contents of the SFD Dress Kit

D.2 Ease Allowance - in the SFD Dress Kit

D.2.1 Moulage vs. Sloper vs. SFD Body Blueprint - Understanding Differences

D.3 Adjust-A-Bust Template - What's it for and how to use it.

D.4 Differences between the SFD Dress Kit and Shirt Kit

D.5 Measuring Solo - without a sewing buddy - see how

D.5.1 Where's My Waist?

D.6 How to Identify & Measure your Shoulder Length

D.7 Drawing Dress Kit Bodice - 3 Parts

D.7.a Pt. 1 Drawing Dress Kit Bodice - CF, Neck Curve & Shoulder

D.7.b Pt. 2 Drawing Dress Kit Bodice - Armscye & Dart

D.7.c Pt. 3 Drawing Dress Kit Bodice - Waist level & Waist Dart

D.7.d Drawing the Sleeve Cap on the Dress Kit Bodice Pattern

D.7.e Drawing the Sleeveless Armhole

D.7.f Shortening/Lengthening the Shoulder Line – Affect on the Armscye Curve

D.7.g Adjust-A-Bust Template Flexibility No more FBA.

D.7.h Adjust-A-Bust Template - How to make the dart smaller or larger

D.7.i 'Perfecting' (truing) the Bust Dart Extension Point

D.7.j Adjust-A-Bust Template - Positioning for a lower bust level

D.8 Testing & Fitting your Bodice - a 5-Part Tutorial

D.8.a Pt. 1-Fabric Choice/Layout/Cutting

D.8.b Pt. 2-How to Sew and Press Darts

D.8.c Pt. 3-Sewing Shoulder & Side Seams

D.8.d Pt. 4-How to Set in the Sleeve

D.8.e Pt. 5-Staystitching/Pressing/Fit Evaluation

D.9 Truing & Perfecting the Sewing Pattern before beginning to sew

Dress Kit: Fitting Refinements and Minor Tune-Ups

D.9 HELP! My Pattern Doesn't Fit! Discover General Variables for Accurate Pattern Fit for any of your SFD patterns.

D.9.1 Refining your fit – Dress Instruction Book - Information -Minor Tune-Ups

D.9.2 Lowering the Dress Bodice Underarm - Minor Tune-Up

D.9.3 Narrow shoulder and upper chest - going to fuller Bust - Minor Tune-Up

D.9.4 Refining the Fit: Dress/Shirt Armscye Modifying/Scooping the Armscye Curve

D.9.5.a. Large Upper Arm Alteration/Tune-Up with Sure-Fit Designs™

D.9.5.b. Large Upper Arm Alteration Choices & Style Options by Sure-Fit Designs™

D.9.6 Rounded Back & Protruding Shoulder Blade - Minor Tune-Up

D.9.6.a Splitting the Back Bodice Alternative for Rounded Back Tune-Up

D.9.7 Square Shoulder Minor Tune-Up/Alteration

D.9.8 Sloped Shoulder Minor Tune-Up/Alteration

D.9.9 Forward Thrusting Shoulder Line or Shoulder Bone Minor Tune-Up/Alteration

D.9.10 Asymmetrical Shoulder Line Minor Tune-Up/Alternation

D.9.11 Asymmetrical Waist/Hip Level Minor Tune-Up/Alternation

D.9.12 Tight Neck Curve on Bodice Minor Tune-Up/Alteration

D.9.13 Sway Back (Bodice) & Shortening Center Back Waist Length Minor Tune-Up/Alteration

D.9.14 Sway Back (Skirt) Minor Tune-Up Alteration

D.9.15 Sway Back on a one-piece Garment (Blouse or Dress) Tune-Up/Alteration

D.9.16 Dart Manipulation - Divining the Dart

D.9.17 Large Abdomen Minor Tune-Up/Alteration

D.9.18 Large Buttocks Tune-Up/Alteration for Skirts

D.9.19 Armhole gap - how to Identify & Remove the Armhole Fold/Tuck

D.9.20 How to Shorten the Sleeve Pattern

D.9.21 Gaping V-Neckline - How to Fix

D.9.22 Sleeve Cap: Reducing Sleeve Cap Ease

Dress Kit: Drawing & Designing with the SFD Dress Pattern

D.10 Sloper and your body blueprint - General Information

D.11 Dress Kit (Sloper) Designing -Blouse Examples

D.12 Dress Kit (Sloper) Designing - Locating the Dart in Dress Examples

D.13 Princess Lines - Designing & Drawing

D.13.1 Princess Seam into the Shoulder

D.13.2 Princess Seam into the Armscye

D.13.3 Princess Seam with Waist Dart Shaping

D.13.4 Princess Seam - Variation with Short Dart

D.13.5 Princess Seam in the Bodice Back

D.13.6 Princess Line - No Side Seam

D.14 Beyond Bodice Basics (new Dress/Bodice styles design book with DVD)

D.15 Dart Cutting Line - How to Perfect the Dart Cutting Line after Moving the Dart Location

D.16 How to design the double French dart

D.17 How to Add a Button Extension to your Pattern

D.18a. How to Draw and Add a Facing to your Pattern

D.18b. How to Draw a V-Neck Facing for a pull-over Blouse

D.19 Sally Silhouette - How to draw a garment illustration on a well-proportioned body form

D.20 Designing a Blouse - Planning a Sewing Project - Copying a Ready-to-Wear Blouse

D.21 Symmetrical & Asymmetrical Bodice Designing - easy process explained

D.22 Color Blocking - How to on a SFD T-Shirt

D.23 How to Draw a simple Wrap Skirt

D.24 How to transfer and design a Back Shoulder Dart into a Back Yoke

D.25 How to reduce Skirt Waist Ease

D.26 Blouse Designing 101 - the short fast version

D.27 Blouse Designing 101 - the longer version

D.28 Sheath Dress Designing

D.29 How to Draw & Design Collars

D.30 Little Black Dress - Sew Along - 19-Lesson Course

D.31 Muffin Top: What to do with the waist dart & 10 Tips for choosing styles that camouflage

D.32 How to Draw & Design the Kimberly Blouse

D.33 How to true and perfect the pattern before beginning to sew

D.34 Designing the Knit Sheath Dress and Removing the Waist/Hip Darts

D.35 Remnants, Tank Tops and Asymmetrical Designing by Sure-Fit Designs

D.36 Dividing the Bust Dart by Sure-Fit Designs

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