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You can only purchase this Skill Building Session inside my community, Sew Sew Guild individually. You can become a Sew Sew Guildie inside this community and get access to all of the Skill Building Sessions and more as part of the plan! It goes really well with the Button Up/Down Sew Along SBS!
This Skill Building Session takes you through Cutting and Sewing patterns and prints to match. Information includes matching one way and two way patterns, plaids, stripes, prints, motifs and any type of pattern on fabric that needs to be matched. This content will pair well with the next Skill Building Session: Button-Up/Down Sew Along.
What to Expect
We'll go over the priorities of places on a garment to match, what is impossible to match and why, ways to use bias or grainline changes to offset matching, what patterns on fabrics to match and which to skip, and some other detailed information to prepare you for this task.
What is Included
There are seven videos and a short printable PDF to accompany this SBS. You can save access to all content forever even if you're not in the Guild.
Video Content
There are six videos. They are accessed through YouTube and they have full features of subtitles and speed control plus the ability to save them forever.
1. Garment Examples: Examples of garments with a lot of different patterns and prints that were matched (and where some were not matched). Different solutions, challenges, and pattern types.
2. Fabric Examples: Different patterns including scale differences, one way vs. two way patterns, the patterns to match and the patterns not to match.
3. Cutting Musts & Steps for Success: Steps to setup your project and what to prioritize. Pattern prep, fabric check, and making a plan.
4. Tricks: Quick video with a couple tricks that can help matching different patterns.
5. Cutting Different Garments: Examples of how to cut a Skirt, Pants, and Button-Up/Down Shirt. How to address matching plackets (sleeve, front skirt, and front shirt), centers, side seams, pockets, collars and more. This video will also explain why you don't have to match certain places like shoulders, sleeves and yokes because of grainline issues and proportion. Some are impossible.
6. Sewing: Once you've cut your garment, most of the work is done. Using a few different methods to sew your seams will ensure your patterns match.
7. Coming later: How to Cut a Button-Up/Down in detail.
Summary
This Skill Building Session will give you confidence to tackle matching prints and patterns and also give you the confidence to skip certain areas of matching. You'll find it's more intuitive and easier to control than it seems and you'll learn where to focus and how to achieve the results you want to get in your project.