Pati Talks Fabrics for Shirts and Blouses: A Peak Inside the Video "From Fabric to Fashion"

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The Right Fabric + The Right Pattern = A Successful Garment.
The perfect sewing class for anyone wanting to know more about textiles, fabric color theory, and understanding how to read a sewing pattern. Perfect for new sewists who want to choose fabrics for sewing patterns more confidently.
Pati Palmer and Katrina Walker provide a wonderful overview of sewing patterns, fabric selection based upon garment type as well as how to choose fabrics based upon your hair and complexion (color theory). They discuss fibers and fabrics and give you easy fabric tests you can perform to help you decide what to sew.
Learn clues for the best fabric to use form the pattern envelope. You will save time if you know more about fabrics including drapability, the kinds of fabric qualities needed for a design, will the fabric ease well, and how to care for fabrics so they will last.
About the Instructors --
Pati Palmer studied clothing and textiles at Oregon State University. She has designed for Vogue, McCall’s and now Butterick pattern companies. She is the owner of Palmer/Pletsch Publishing, author, editor and internationally renowned speaker. Companion books: Mother Pletsch’s Painless Sewing (textiles section), Jackets for Real People (best fabrics for jackets); plus Looking Good Every Day for selecting colors and prints to look your best. Pati and Katrina will also show you where you would want to use interfacings.
Katrina Walker, designer, and educator specializes in textiles, particularly silk and wool. Katrina has worked as a Family and Consumer Sciences educator and in apparel development for Nordstrom and REI. She is a Wellesley College graduate and a National Make it With Wool adult division winner. www.katrinawalker.com
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2 Hours, English Language • 15 Videos + 3 PDFs

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Wonderful patters and thank you for adding all those tips. I will need to buy the full busted pattern blouse so I can make a better blouse pattern.