Fantastic Fit For Everybody : How to Alter Patterns to Flatter Your Figure

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Summary: Inspiring and Affirming
Review: This is a fun and helpful book. It was beneficial for me to learn that I should EXPECT my body to vary from the pattern standard - rather than beat myself up over it. I particularly liked the book's "before and after" photos. It's good to have so many visual images showing "this is what it means". Gale's insights will help me for years to come.

Rating:
Summary: Inspiring and Affirming
Review: Thought that this was a great reference book on alterations, but short on details for various pattern changes. This book showed that the thought process of alterations started with your own body, Gale's process of fitting was a good way to find out of the item to be sewn will work for your body type before you sew a stitch. Pattern, fabric and body type are all taken into consideration rather than fit the pattern to the measurements. This is what I have been looking forward to and needed, but the illustrations on alterations were a bit wimpy. And for the price I was surprised at the quality of paper used for the book.

Rating:
Summary: Inspirational & Enlightining but short on details
Review: Thought that this was a great reference book on alterations, but short on details for various pattern changes. This book showed that the thought process of alterations started with your own body, Gale's process of fitting was a good way to find out of the item to be sewn will work for your body type before you sew a stitch. Pattern, fabric and body type are all taken into consideration rather than fit the pattern to the measurements. This is what I have been looking forward to and needed, but the illustrations on alterations were a bit wimpy. And for the price I was surprised at the quality of paper used for the book.