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Curvy Tutorials

Beginner’s Guides

  • Essential Tools
  • How to Shop for Fabric
  • How to Measure Yourself
  • How to Find Patterns for Your Body Type
  • Forgiving Fabrics
  • Full Bust Adjustment
  • Pressing Tools
  • Easy Skirt Patterns
  • Choosing Patterns to Minimize Pattern Adjustments
  • Best Patterns for Curvy Beginners

Pattern Grading

  • How I Upgrade a Pattern:  Basics
  • How to Grade a Pattern Up:  The Easy Way
  • How to Grade Up a Vintage Pattern:  The Shift Method
  • How to Grade Up a Vintage Pattern:  Basic Slash and Spread Grading
  • Grade Up the Bombshell Swimsuit

Pattern Fitting

  • Buying and Using a Sloper

Full Bust Adjustment

  • Princess Seams:  An FBA for Large Busts
  • A Full Bust Adjustment on a One Dart Bodice
  • How to Add a Dart and an FBA to an Unshaped Top
  • Large FBA Issues:  Dealing with the Big Honkin’ Dart
  • Large FBA Solutions: The Y-Dart FBA
  • Large FBA Soultions: Dart Splitting and Rotation
  • How to Retrofit a FBA in a Knit T-shirt

Bodice Alterations

  • Narrow Shoulder Adjustment
  • Wide Shoulder Adjustment
  • How to Convert Darts to Princess Seams
  • Lowering (or Raising) the Bust Point/Fullness for Princess Seams
  • Lowering (or Raising) a Bust Dart
  • How to Do a High Round Back Adjustment

Fitting Sleeves

  • Making Your Sleeves Fit (Large Bicep Adjustment)

Waist Adjustment

  • How to Expand the Waist on a Pattern

Swayback Adjustment

  • A Basic Swayback Adjustment

Shirtmaking

  • An Easy Way to Stripe and Plaid Match on Shirts
  • Ten Tricks for Sewing Better Collars

Pants Fitting/Alterations

  • Full Butt/Booty/Tush Adjustment
  • Full Tummy Adjustment (Pants or Skirt)
  • Sewing Sequin Pants for Miss Pennsylvania Plus America
  • Creating a Pocket Stay
  • How to Give Any Stretch Pants an Elastic Waist
  • Making Trousers: A Steamed Crossgrain Waistband
  • Tutorial: Lengthening Rise and Adding Pockets to Jalie Éléonore Pull-On Jeans
  • Tutorial: Sewing a Zip Fly
  • Tutorial: Sewing a Button Fly

Activewear/Swimwear

  • Activewear 101:  Leggings 1 — Muslin
  • How to Make a Stretch Pants Block
  • How to Use a Stretch Pants Block
  • Underwear Bra Installation in the Nautilus Swimsuit
  • Adding Bust Support to a Swimsuit:  Boning & Cups
  • Triangle Bikini Top Tutorial

Lingerie

  • How to Clone a RTW Bra

Pattern Hacks

  • Converting The Sewing Workshop Liberty shirt into a t-shirt
  • Making a Bow Neck Blouse from a T-shirt pattern
  • How to Sew an Easy Lace Dress
  • Moneta + Washington Pattern Hack
  • Turning the Concord T-Shirt into a Reversible Hoodie
  • Drawstring Ruched Top

Pattern Drafting

  • Sew Your Own Geneva Inspired Dress

Pattern/Fabric Advice and Techniques

  • Demystifying Bootstrap Fashion, Part 1:  About, Selection and Measurements
  • Demystifying Bootstrap Fashion, Part 2:  Printing, Cutting and Taping
  • Demystifying Bootstrap Fashion, Part 3:  Fabric Layout, Construction and Fitting

Accessories

  • How to Make a Fabric Belt

 

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