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 Truing & Perfecting the Sewing Pattern before beginning to sew

 Dress Kit Videos: 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.9.6.b Modifying & Angling the Bodice Back Side Seam

• 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

• D.9.23 "V" Shoulder Point...No! No! No! How to fix the pattern's armscye shape

• D.9.24 Sleeves & all their Quirkiness

 Dress Kit Videos: 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.13.1 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 (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