Pati Palmer, McCall's Fit Expert, has been designing jeans patterns for McCall's since the 1980s. Marta Alto has perfected sewing jeans details. Together they show you how to achieve the look and fit you want, beginning with the right size pattern. Learn the latest way to tissue-fit your jeans pattern: first tissue-fit like any pant, then give it the “jeans fit” in fabric--all before you do any sewing. See jeans in many fabrics (Marta's favorite: all-bias jeans!) and learn about fabric selection and preshrinking, notions needed, and topstitching threads. Watch Marta sew a pair of jeans from start to finish, including jeans details and how they go together, plus seam options--flat-felled or mock flat-felled. Whether your figure type is full, petite, or curvy, you'll see how to fit YOUR body.

3-hour Two-DVD Set
$24.95

Fit experts Marta Alto and Pati Palmer have co-authored many books and co-produced many DVDs. Both have been teaching sewing since the 1970s and currently hold sewing workshops in Portland, Oregon. They also train teachers worldwide how to teach fit and fashion sewing.

Companion book:

Pants For Real People
$24.95
Forget the fitting shell! Toss the tape measure—after taking just one measurement! Now, with just the hip measurement and the help of the new Palmer/Pletsch book, Pants for REAL People, by Pati Palmer and Marta Alto, women of all sizes, shapes, and ages can try on the tissue-paper pattern to see how to fit the pants they sew. Tissue-fitting, a technique devised and perfected by Palmer/Pletsch over three decades of hands-on teaching, has never before appeared in print for pants. 192 pages.

                          

"Pants for Real People" $24.95
"Pants for Real People" (Spiral Bound) $29.95
"Pants for Real People" (USED*) $15.95

 

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