Just a little Inspiration!

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Do you need a little inspiration to get a sewing project off the ground?  Since mid-2017 we have been posting monthly Sure-Fit Designs newsletters - Monthly Makes.  Sewn by customers just like you.

If you need a little boost to get your 2018 sewing projects underway...and you're not quite sure what to make...hopefully one or two of these customer makes will inspire you...there's lots to choose from.

  Jumpsuit (romper) using SFD Pants Kit and Dress Kit joined of course at the waistline.

 An asymmetrical hemmed top - Sure-Fit Designs Dress Kit.

 

 Designed and sewn from the Sure-Fit Designs Children's Kit.

 Waterfall Jacket - a Digital E-Goods Fashion Leaflet - https://surefitdesigns.com/collections/digital-e-goods/products/waterfall-jacket

Shirt for (hard to fit) grandson by Chris Rosenthal - Sure-Fit Designs Shirt Kit

 Pencil Skirt and sleeveless Peplum blouse - Sure-Fit Designs Dress Kit.

 Sure-Fit Designs gown by Bernard Burns (Dress Kit)

 

 Sure-Fit Designs Dress Kit and Shirt Kit pattern for hubby.

  Sure-Fit Designs Dress Kit

  Designed and sewn from the Sure-Fit Designs Children's Kit.

  Designed and sewn from the Sure-Fit Designs Children's Kit.

  Designed and sewn from the Sure-Fit Designs Children's Kit.

 The Nautical Flare Top - a Sew Along by Sure-Fit Designs

 The Caprezio Top - a Sew Along by Sure-Fit Designs

The Caprezio Top - a Sew Along by Sure-Fit Designs

For children, hubby's, and of course for yourself, sew what fits and suits your lifestyle...plan your 2018 fashion sewing projects.

Happy Fitting and Sewing!

Glenda the Good Stitch

Look What Your Body Blueprint Can Do!

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You've drawn your body blueprint (your sloper) from your Sure-Fit Designs Dress Kit bodice - now let's take a look at 3 common designs easily drawn from your finished blueprint.

First of all, your bodice blueprint is represented in the shaded gray(ish) color.

An easy design to draw is the Vest - shaded in pink.  You'll find Vest directions in both the Sure-Fit Designs Shirt Kit (on the enclosed Fashion Leaflet), and in the Children's Kit on page 33.  The directions for an adult vest are basically the same, except you'll have your bust dart on the side seam.

Your bodice blueprint can easily be drafted into a blouse.  Just make sure to add your skirt blueprint attached at the bodice waist level so that you make sure you incorporate your correct high and low hip circumferences, so that the blouse will button up comfortably into your hip area.  There are directions for adding the skirt to the bodice on page 32 of the Dress Kit instruction book.  And there are a couple of free videos on blouse designing.  Simply go to http://www.sfdlearningcenter.com/VideoCategory-DressKit.html and look for D.20 Designing a Blouse, D.27 Blouse Designing 101, and D.32 How to Draw & Designs the Kimberly Blouse.

Next you'll see the shaded green area which represents a general outline for a basic jacket.  By raising and extending the shoulder point (for a shoulder pad) and widening the underarm to allow for jacket-wearing ease, you can sew jackets from your Dress Kit bodice blueprint.  See page 35 in the Dress Kit instruction book for specific Jacket/Coat Designing ease changes.

Happy fitting & designing!
Glenda...the Good Stitch

Sewing for Toddler's, Children & Teens with Sure-Fit Designs

We're generally so busy producing videos for you ladies that we seldom find time for the children.  But finally, this latest video finishes off the video series on the discounted Combos offered by Sure-Fit Designs.
If you sew for your children or grand children, you'll save when you purchase the Children's Kit Combo.  Remember you can sew for both boys and girls and toddlers through teens, when the child matures and grows into the adult patterns.  There's a cross over in size/measurement range between the Children's Kit and the adult pattern Kits so that we can accommodate the best shaping possible for the youngster.

You'll love the variety of different styles you can sew for both boys and girls.  It's kind of like taking the children's section of a pattern catalog and wrapping all the designs into one big package called the Children's Kit.
Now there's a savings combo dedicated just to sewing for children.  It's called the Children's Kit Combo and consists of the following:

• Children's Kit

• The Introductory How-To DVD

• 1x10yd roll of tracing vellum

• And the essential drawing tool, the Designing Stylus.

Just click on the video link below to see a brief re-cap of all the elements in the Combo.
https://youtu.be/zuf5vVJdSig

Have fun sewing for your kids.
To purchase, please click here - http://www.surefitdesigns.com/Children-s-Kit.html
Here's a sneak peak at so many of the different styles you can sew.

Kindly,
Glenda...the Good Stitch!

Free Shipping - Holiday Extravaganza!

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Join in the Holiday Extravaganza Nov. 28-29-30, 2016 for the Sure-Fit Designs Free Shipping event. Your minimum purchase needs to be at least $49.95...and shipping will be FREE to all USA destinations.

As long as your purchase adds up to $49.95 or more, the shipping is on us (for USA customers)!
It all begins at 12:01 AM EST on Monday November 28 and goes through midnight Wed. November 30, 2016.
We'll definitely get your order to you before Christmas!

International Customers - PLEASE READ 
International customers will pay 1/2 price for shipping their order.  **However, due to the Shopping Cart software limitations, you will need to add the FULL amount of shipping to your order as you normally would.  When we receive email notification of your order, I will immediately issue you a 50% refund on the amount you paid in shipping and handling..

Domestic (USA) Customers-
No coupon or discount code is required.  Just choose $0.00 shipping when checking out of the Shopping Cart.

Ready...Set...Shop

Just go to www.surefitdesigns.com for your shopping extravaganza!

Happy Holidays,

Bye, Bye Basic Black

I love my new leggings!

I've sewn them from something called Scuba fabric that I recently picked up at my local JoAnn Fabric store.  This was a Nicole Miller fabric designed exclusively for JoAnn Fabrics.

It's kind of a spongy dual-layer fabric with lots of lengthwise and crosswise stretch...just perfect for leggings...and everyone's wearing leggings this season, whether to the gym or for just simply daytime wear.  It's 57" wide fabric, 94% polyester and 6% Spandex.

The pattern for the leggings is from the Sure-Fit Designs (downloadable) Leggings Fashion Leaflet found on this page - Click Here.

One of the few differences from the above instructions is that I eliminated the side seam.  Once I'd sized down for the 'leggings' fit, front and back were laid together at the side seams, so that the front and back could be cut together as one unit.  The actual instructions for a 'No Side Seam Pants Style' are found in the Sure-Fit Designs Children's Kit.  And there is also a discussion of how to eliminate the side seam in the Pajama Pants video found in the Sure-Fit Designs Learning Center. Click Here.

Without the side seam, you now have only 3 easy seams: both inseams and the crotch curve.  But first I used my Cover stitch machine to stitch up the hem.  Here are photos of both right and wrong side at the hem.  If you'd like complimentary videos on stitching with a Cover Stitch machine, Click Here.

Once the hem was turned up and stitched, the inseams were sewn with a 4-thread serger process.  I also used a stretchy cone thread which was something new for me.  This thread is kind of spongy like Wooly Nylon, but not quite so springy.  I thought it would be a good thread complement to the stretchy fabric since I knew I'd wear them in my yoga class.

Then the crotch seam was sewn.

And lastly, I applied 1" (2.5 cm) wide elastic at the waist edge.  The elastic was cut 2" (5 cm) less than my waist measurement and sewn to the waist edge with zigzag stitching.   For directions for applying waist elastic with this technique, refer to page 24 of your Sure-Fit Designs Pants Kit Instruction Book (5th edition).  When on, they feel really comfortable.  When I first put them on the 'scuba' fabric feels a little 'cold', but within a short period of time, they warm up (maybe it's me that's warming up!  I'm always cold!).

Yes, they were fun to make and extremely quick to sew.  They definitely qualify as another 'Made in a Day' project.

Happy Sewing!