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Don't Miss the Fit for Real
People Series...
NEW! Jackets
for Real People
TAILORING MADE EASY!
 Sew
a jacket and ALL your FUTURE sewing will improve! Follow along as Marta
Alto sews a lapel-style jacket with double-welt pockets, vented sleeves,
sleeve heads and lining for maximum learning. Clear, step-by-step close-ups
take you each step of the way.
TWO HOURS and
45 MINUTES
Hi Capacity DVD
$24.95
and
Fit for Real People:
Basics
Pants for Real People --
Fitting Techniques
Pants for Real People
--
Sewing Techniques
Fit for Real
People: BASICS
1 hour 30 minutes
Learn the basics of choosing the right
size, tissue-fitting, altering, and fabric-fitting in this interactive
DVD. Marta Alto fits a model who needs the most common alterations for the
bust, back, shoulders, and sleeves. She demonstrates the same alterations on
3 styles of tops— a fitted shirt; a loose fitting jacket, and a fitted
princess jacket with a straight skirt. Palmer/Pletsch has been influencing
pattern company fit products for over 25 years and are considered the "Fit
Authorities" by The McCall Pattern Co.
Inside:
-Buy the right size pattern with the right amount of ease.
-Prepare a pattern for tissue-fitting.
-Fitting a darted, fitted shirt.
-Altering for broad back, full bust, forward shoulder, and fitted sleeve.
-Altering a loose jacket. Adding a dart for a full bust.
-Altering a fitted princess jacket for full bust.
-Altering a straight skirt
-Round and high round back alterations
Fit for Real People
DVD Video $19.95
 Pants for Real People,
Fitting Techniques
1 hour 20 minutes
Pati Palmer teaches you how to
tissue-fit a fitted and trouser-style pant. She covers how to get the tissue
ready, accuracy, common alterations, fabric pin-fitting, and waistband
fitting. Marta Alto shows you how to sew a fitted pant and a trouser,
including invisible and fly zippers, two pocket techniques, pressing
creases, a waistband with give and a non-roll waistband, lining, and
invisible hems. Companions to the book Pants
for Real People.
Pants for
Real People - Fitting DVD Video $19.95
 Pants
for Real People,
Sewing Techniques
1 hour 25 minutes
A new interactive DVD from
Palmer/Pletsch shows you how to sew great looking pants that flatter any
body. Marta Alto sews a fitted pant and a trouser, beginning with trying
on her altered tissue to check it before cutting. The goal of this DVD is
not only to show sewing techniques for two styles of pants, but to show how
you can fit yourself using hand-held and full-length mirrors"
more about the series...
Pants for
Real People - Sewing DVD Video $19.95
Fit For Real People
COMPANION BOOKS
 For
more in-depth fitting information, see the best seller
book,
Fit for Real People by Pati Palmer and Marta Alto,
a 256 page fit "encyclopedia."
 For
more on pant fitting and sewing see our book
Pants for Real People by Pati Palmer and Marta Alto.
 For
more on fitting and sewing jackets, see our book
Jackets for Real People by Pati Palmer
and Marta Alto.
 21st Century Sewing
From Solid Beginnings
to New Heights...
Home Ec Goes High Tech!
Tips and techniques to make sewing fun, fast and trouble free. Marta Alto shares the most important things you need to sew well, and identifies products that make sewing easier and/or better. This is a good introduction or re-introduction to sewing, and a companion to
Mother Pletsch’s Painless Sewing.
21st Century
Sewing DVD Video $19.95
Now in DVD!
Teach Young Children to Sew
T his One-hour video is for children and
teachers (parents). You can teach a 5 year old to sew!
You can also teach 10-year-olds hand sewing skills they can use
while babysitting. Parents will love you because you'll also
be teaching valuable "Life Skills" (manners, patients, following
rules, coordination, responsibility, etc.).
If you are a parent who decides to teach your
own child , use this video to help you with the instruction.
- The video is based on three parts
- Part I - A sewing class with 5 -
9-year-olds.
- Part II - A close-up, speeded-up
segment of a child sewing a stuffed animal.
- Part III - Winky helps you become a
good teacher - all the tips you'll need.
Teach Young Children to Sew
Video (DVD)
$14.95
Special Combination offer:
"Teach Young Children to Sew Manual & Video" $29.95
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Frustrated by Interfacings?...
NEW!
Perfect Fusing
Success with Fusible
Interfacings in ANY Garment
Tired of struggling to fuse interfacing to jackets and other sewing
projects? Marta Alto simplifies interfacing decision making in this
expanded DVD video.
50 minute DVD
only
$14.95
For
information about the Palmer/Pletsch PerfectFuse interfacings
click here.
Serging/Overlocking
Videos & DVD's
Serger Basics
and
Creative Serging
now available as interactive DVDs!
(See detailed descriptions Below)
Sewing with SERGERS
Basics I & II
Combined/Revised
DVD
$19.95
Creative
Serging I & II
Combined/Revised
DVD $19.95
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Sewing With SERGERS Basics I & II Learn to master serger basics with the help of this two
hour video based on our book
Sewing With Sergers. Marta Alto and Pati Palmer will show you:
- Close-ups of how a serger works
- Serger features
- Threading tips
- How to balance tensions
- 5-stitch types and their uses
- How to serge a seam
- Turning inside and outside corners
- Sewing in a circle
- Securing seams
- Practicing techniques on side seam pockets,
easy slit sleeve placket and serging placemats
- Gathering on a serger
- Easy ripping
- A completely serged top
- The sewing order and secret tips to assure a
perfect top
- PLUS: Serger Fashions!!!
A variety of sergers are used to make this video
"generic".
Part II Learn practical reasons for using your serger on garments
with the help of this one hour video based on our book
Sewing With Sergers. This video is the sequel to the sewing With
Sergers Basics video. In it Marta Alto and Pati Palmer will show
you:
- Easy serged details:
An easy Peter Pan Collar
An easy Convertible collar
Fast French Binding for a neckline
Serger Spaghetti straps and loops
"Painless" placket and cuff
Easy full skirt hems
- Serging elastic for lingerie and swimwear
- How to master the rolled Edge
Tension adjustments
Solutions to problems
- Lettuce rolled edge
- Rolled edging around corners for napkins
- Flat-locking
Tensions adjustments
2 and 3 thread flat-locking
- Flat-locking hems
- Crossing flat-locked seams
- Love and care of your serger
- PLUS: Serger Fashions!!!
A variety of sergers are used to make this video
"generic".
Creative Serging I
& II
Marta Alto and Pati Palmer will show you how to maximize your serger
and have FUN using it. In this two-hour video based on the book
Creative Serging, see close-ups of all the tips that make
decorative threads work on YOUR serger, PLUS great fashion ideas:
- Decorative threads, yarns, ribbons
- Tips for using decorative threads
- Creative tension ideas:
balanced
flat-locking
wrapped edge
blanket stitch
- Creative flat-locking ideas:
framed and floating
hems (loopers out, ladders out)
flat-lock fringing
"couching"
smocking
flat-locking over pearls
Part II This is a continuation of our
Creative Serging video and is also based on our book
Creative Serging plus The Serger Idea Book. Marta Alto
and Pati Palmer will show you MORE great ways to use YOUR serger for
decorative over-locking. And you'll see a fashion show of creative
clothes.
- All serger models featured
- Decorative rolled edges
stitch length, width and tension for decorative threads
scalloped rolled edges
fish-line rolled edge
rolled edge flowers
- How to feed cording & not sew through it on
any model serger
- Heirloom serging
- Sweater knits
- 4-step jackets
curves and corners
reversing decorative thread at lapel roll line (same technique
use din fixing hiccups)
- "Extraordinary" ideas
fagoting
making your own trim
serge a bedroom
Also Available as VHS Videos:
Still available for a limited time in VHS
versions:
Sewing
with SERGERS Basics - VHS Video
$19.95
Sold Out - No longer available
Sewing
with SERGERS Basics II VHS Video
$19.95
Web Special $15.00 + free shipping
Creative Serging I VHS Video
$19.95
Web Special $15.00 + free shipping
Creative Serging II VHS Video
$19.95
Sold Out - No longer available
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