Dress Kit Videos

Video Category - Dress Videos

This page is the main category Index for Dress Kit videos offered by Sure-Fit Designs™.  Peruse the list, click the title you want to view. YouTube will open in a new window.

(D) Dress Kit Videos: General Info

• 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.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 – Effect 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.7.k Tutorial: Drawing the Bodice Side Seam - Explanation

• 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.9.1 5 Bodice Pattern Drawing Mistakes & How to Avoid Them
  
  
• D.9.2 Truing & Perfecting the Sewing Pattern before beginning to sew

 Dress Kit Videos: Fitting Refinements and Minor Tune-Ups

• D.10 HELP! My Pattern Doesn't Fit!  Discover General Variables for Accurate Pattern Fit for any of your SFD patterns.

• D.11 Refining your fit – Dress Instruction Book - Information - Minor Tune-Ups

• D.12 Lowering the Dress Bodice Underarm - Minor Tune-Up

• D.13 Narrow shoulder and upper chest - going to fuller Bust - Minor Tune-Up

• D.14 Refining the Fit: Dress/Shirt Armscye Modifying/Scooping the Armscye Curve

• D.15 Large Upper Arm Alteration/Tune-Up with Sure-Fit Designs™

• D.16 Large Upper Arm Alteration Choices & Style Options by Sure-Fit Designs™
• D.17. Large Upper Arm & Truing the Underarm Seam Allowance
• D.18 How To Fit My Very Large Upper Arm using the Dress Kit Bodice & Shirt Kit Sleeve.

• D.19 Rounded Back & Protruding Shoulder Blade - Minor Tune-Up

• D.20 Splitting the Back Bodice Alternative for Rounded Back Tune-Up
  
  
• D.21 Kypohsis - Fitting the Very Rounded Spine/back by Sure-Fit Designs

• D.22 Modifying & Angling the Bodice Back Side Seam

• D.23 Square Shoulder Minor Tune-Up/Alteration

• D.24 Sloped Shoulder Minor Tune-Up/Alteration

• D.25 Forward Thrusting Shoulder Line or Shoulder Bone Minor Tune-Up/Alteration

• D.26 Asymmetrical Shoulder Line Minor Tune-Up/Alternation

• D.27 Asymmetrical Waist/Hip Level Minor Tune-Up/Alternation

• D.28 Tight Neck Curve on Bodice Minor Tune-Up/Alteration

• D.29 Sway Back (Bodice) & Shortening Center Back Waist Length Minor Tune-Up/Alteration

• D.30 Sway Back (Skirt) Minor Tune-Up Alteration

• D.31 Sway Back on a one-piece Garment (Blouse or Dress) Tune-Up/Alteration

• D.32 Dart Manipulation - Divining the Dart

• D.33 Large Abdomen Minor Tune-Up/Alteration

• D.34 Large Buttocks Tune-Up/Alteration for Skirts

• D.35 Armhole gap - how to Identify & Remove the Armhole Fold/Tuck

• D.36 How to Shorten the Sleeve Pattern

• D.37 Gaping V-Neckline - How to Fix

• D.38 Sleeve Cap: Reducing Sleeve Cap Ease

• D.39 "V" Shoulder Point...No! No! No! How to fix the pattern's armscye shape

• D.40 Sleeves & all their Quirkiness
  
  
• D.41 Shoulder Seam Allowances - How to True & Correct Seam Allowances

 Dress Kit Videos: Drawing & Designing with the SFD Dress Pattern

• D.42 Sloper and your body blueprint - General Information

• D.43 Dress Kit (Sloper) Designing -Blouse Examples

• D.44 Dress Kit (Sloper) Designing - Locating the Dart in Dress Examples

• D.45 Princess Seam into the Shoulder  

• D.46 Princess Seam into the Armscye

• D.47 Princess Seam with Waist Dart Shaping

• D.48 Princess Seam - Variation with Short Dart

• D.49 Princess Seam in the Bodice Back

• D.50 Princess Line - No Side Seam

• D.51 Beyond Bodice Basics (Dress/Bodice styles design book with DVD)

• D.52 Dart Cutting Line - How to Perfect the Dart Cutting Line after Moving the Dart Location

• D.53 How to design the double French dart

• D.54 How to Add a Button Extension to your Pattern

• D.55 How to Draw and Add a Facing to your Pattern

• D.56 How to Draw a V-Neck Facing for a pull-over Blouse

• D.57 Sally Silhouette - How to draw a garment illustration on a well-proportioned body form

• D.58 Designing a Blouse - Planning a Sewing Project - Copying a Ready-to-Wear Blouse

• D.59 Symmetrical & Asymmetrical Bodice Designing - easy process explained

• D.60 Color Blocking - How to on a SFD T-Shirt

• D.61 How to Draw a simple Wrap Skirt

• D.62 How to transfer and design a Back Shoulder Dart into a Back Yoke

• D.63 How to reduce Skirt Waist Ease

• D.64 Blouse Designing 101 - the short fast version

• D.65 Blouse Designing 101 - the longer version

• D.66 Sheath Dress Designing

• D.67 How to Draw & Design Collars

• D.68 Little Black Dress - Sew Along - 19-Lesson Course

• D.69 Muffin Top: What to do with the waist dart & 10 Tips for choosing styles that camouflage

• D.70 How to Draw & Design the Kimberly Blouse

• D.71 How to true and perfect the pattern before beginning to sew

• D.72 Designing the Knit Sheath Dress and Removing the Waist/Hip Darts

• D.73 Remnants, Tank Tops and Asymmetrical Designing by Sure-Fit Designs

• D.74 Dividing the Bust Dart by Sure-Fit Designs