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Fitting Issues & Techniques

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Fitting Issues & Techniques

A comprehensive resource for solving fitting challenges and perfecting your garments.

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Pants Fitting

Pants Wearing Ease Front Crotch Fit: Removing Horizontal Folds Under the Tummy Thick Waist & Short Front Crotch Solutions Baggies Under the Butt: Upper Thigh Dart

Bodice & Bust Fitting

Beyond E-Cup: Large Bust Solutions T-Shirt Fit: Dress Kit vs Shirt Kit Adding a Bust Dart to Shirt Patterns Dealing with the Skirt Dart

Sleeve Fitting

Sleeve Facts: All Their Quirkiness Increasing Forward Sleeve Pitch Large Upper Arm Pattern Tune-Up

Body Shape Adjustments

Protruding Tummy: Refining the Centre Front Seam Asymmetrical Bodies: Pattern Refinements Sway Back: Identification & Refinements Rounded Back Pattern Tune-Up Forward-Thrusted Shoulder: Identification & Tune-Up

Shoulder Darts

Adding a Shoulder Dart: Method 1 Adding a Shoulder Dart: Method 2

Troubleshooting

Help! My Pattern Doesn’t Fit: Variables for Accurate Fit

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