Pattern Alterations in NYC with Ryliss Bod
After your measurements are taken, the minimum wearing ease will be discussed for woven, stretch woven and knit fabrics in all types of garments.
The technique of how patterns will be altered to fit will be practiced.
We will go out to lunch in Little Italy (BYOB).
The class will be held at
Mendel Goldberg's Fabrics
72 Hester Street
New York, NY
BONUS: Julio Cesar, Fashion and Pattern Designer for Vogue Patterns, will make a guest appearance and answer our questions.
| Skill Level: | Intermediate |
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| Materials Included: | Alteration Notes, Jan Minott's Total Pattern Fit and Skirts and Pants book, Wrinkle Chart and How posture controls fit in digital form will be emailed to you prior to the class. Paper scissors, scotch tape, pencils, rulers. |
| Requirements: | Bring in 7-10 patterns. Buy sizes closest to your bust circumference for upper body patterns and your hip circumference for you bottom patterns. Before Class - Separate the pattern pieces, but do not trim along any sizes. We may not have enough time to do all. |
| Instructor: | Ryliss Bod |
| Instructor Bio: | Ryliss Bod is the Founder and Director of the Sewing & Design School and has extensive experience teaching Fashion Construction and Design at a Washington State Technical College. She instructed courses for both continuing education and career training in all levels of sewing construction, home décor construction, fashion accessory construction, fashion design, fitting & pattern alterations, pattern-making, textiles, history of fashion and quilting. She received her teaching degree in K-12 grades and studied art, clothing and textiles at Central Washington University, pattern-making and CAD at Gerber Technology, fashion design at the Paris Fashion Institute, pattern-making and construction techniques with Kenneth D. King and countless others. Throughout her career she developed workshops and fashion shows, hired instructors and conducted fashion and fabric shopping field trips to Portland, San Francisco and New York. Ryliss has been a Contributing Editor at Sew News Magazine, Threads Magazine, judge for the 2014 RAGS Benefit, Make it With Wool and the Washington State 4-H Dress Revue and host of Instagram's Sew Photo Challenge #sewApril2017 -#sewapril2024. Currently she is the Co-Director of Washington State's Make it with Wool Contest. She may be contacted at ryliss@comcast.net. |
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