Pattern Fitting in Tacoma with Ryliss Bod
Measurements will be taken and applied to a wearing ease chart.
Bring in 5-7 patterns with the size based on your chest/bust measurement for upper body patterns and your full hip for bottom body patterns.
Patterns will be checked for fit and altered.
A limited number of patterns will be available for purchase at the class.
This is not a sewing class.
| Skill Level: | Intermediate |
| Skill Details: | Previous sewing experience required. |
| Materials Included: | Alteration Notes, Jan Minott's Total Pattern Fit and Skirts and Pants book in digital form will be emailed to you prior to the class. Paper scissors, pattern paper, scotch tape, pencils, rulers. |
| Requirements: | Bring in 5-7 sewing patterns, preferably from Simplicity, Vogue, Butterick, McCalls, New Look or Burda. Independent patterns may be brought in if they have the center back length information. |
| 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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This class cannot be purchased online. Please contact the store for more information.