General Information/Interest Videos

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This page is the main category Index for General Information/Interest free, educational videos offered by Sure-Fit Designs™.  Choose the video you want to view, then click on its hyperlink.  It will take you to the YouTube video which will open in a new window.

General Information/Interest Videos below (GI)

• GI.1 Meet Glenda Sparling

• GI.2 FAQ's - Listen to your most frequently asked questions and answers.
  
  
• GI.3 SFD Learning Center - Video & Article Library Tour

• GI.4 Closed Captions and Language Translations 
  
• GI.5 Introduction to Pattern Fitting & Designing with Sure-Fit Designs™ (SFD)
  
• GI.6 Private 1:1 Workshops offered by Sure-Fit Designs
  
• GI.7 Understanding Seam Allowances & Pattern Designing with Sure-Fit Designs™
  
• GI.8 Sure-Fit Designs™ new Introductory How-To DVD - Highlights and Overview of content
  
• GI.9 Weight Loss and Sewing & Style Choices with Sure-Fit Designs™ 

Essential Tools for use with all SFD Pattern Kits

• GI.10 Designing Stylus - What's it for and how to use it.

                 GI.10.1 Designing Stylus - Adding Seam Allowance to Sewing Patterns

                 GI.10.2 Designing Stylus - How to clean off the graphite smudges

                 GI.10.3  Designing Stylus - Finessing the Curves for the Full Figure 

• GI.11 Designer's Companion - What it's for and how to use it.
  
• GI.12 Curved T-Square - How it's used and what's it for

• GI.13 Tracing Vellum - The benefits of using Tracing Vellum as a tracing medium.

Dress Kit Dart & Adjust-A-Bust Info

• GI.14 Adjust-A-Bust Template - how to use it and it's subtleties
  

                 GI.14.1 The Adjust-A-Bust Template - found in the Dress Kit - What it's for and how to use it.

                 GI.14.2 Adjust-A-Bust Template - how to make it smaller or larger

                 GI.14.3 Adjust-A-Bust Flexibility for all dart shapes

                 GI.14.4 'Perfecting' (truing) the Bust Dart Extension Point

Pattern Testing & other Related Information

• GI.15 HELP! My Pattern Doesn't Fit!  Discover Variables for Accurate Pattern Fit 

• GI.16 Testing, Sewing & Fitting your Bodice: Tutorial

• GI.17 Refining pattern fit - if necessary – Minor Tune-Ups

• GI.18 Truing & Perfecting a Bodice Sewing Pattern
  
• GI.19 'Perfecting and Truing' the Pants Pattern Prior to Cutting Fabric

• GI.20 Ease Allowances in Dress Kit - difference between wearing and design ease

• GI.21 Wearing Ease vs. Design Ease in the Pants Pattern

• GI.22  Wearing Ease in the Shirt Kit patterns

• GI.23 Bodice Photo Guide for Requested Fitting Help via Email

• GI.24 Pants Photo Guide for Requested Fitting Help via Email

Other Helpful Information

• GI.25 Estimating Fabric Yardage

• GI.26 Knit Know-How - Testing the Stretch & Sizing Down the Master Pattern 

• GI.27 How to Draw the Matching Notches

• GI.28 Muffin Top: What to do with the waist dart & 10 Tips for choosing styles that camouflage 

• GI.29 New Video Studio Tour & Sneak Peak of new Design & Sew Along

 New Series: What I Didn't Know...But Wish I Had!

• GI.30 - 01 Get Organized - Quick Pattern Drawing Preparation Tips
  
• GI.31 - 02 Are you a 1/2 Measurement?  When to go in-between the dots.
  
• GI.32 - 03 Large Bicep? When to Start Drawing with the Sleeve Pattern
  
• GI.33 - 04 Choosing the Correct Dart Shape
  
• GI.34 - 05 Aligning the Waist and Hip Darts Easily
  
• GI.35 - 06 Distributing Ease and When to go Up or Down a Dot
  
• GI.36 - 07 Order of Shoulder Adjustments
  
• GI.37 - 08 How to Avoid Seam Allowance Peaks
  
• GI.38 - 09 Perfecting/Truing Your Sewing Pattern
  
• GI.39 - 10 When to Stop Fussing and Over-Fitting