Learn to sew perfectly tailored clothing every time

Upgrade from Home Sewing

Most vocational schools, high schools and continuing education courses teach home sewing. Home sewing is unprofessional, and the results are not consistent. It’s basically hit or miss. Why spend your time learning home sewing methods when you can learn how the professionals do it, and your clothing will come out perfectly tailored to your body every time? In Laurel's books and program the information is presented in a multi-disciplined fashion, as it is REALLY done in high-end design rooms in the industry. This is the way she sews for herself. And this is the way she shows you how to sew.

It's an accepted fact among people who enjoy home sewing that the instructions in a regular pattern are tricky to understand at best, and can be truly difficult or confusing. In may cases, the language in the instructions is unclear, the pictures show too many steps at once, and the pattern has been compressed to fit on one or two pages. Using industrial fashion methods, you have four ways to obtain patterns:

1. You can create a sloper drafted to your measurements, then a tailored pattern drafted from the sloper. A sloper is a pattern that is used to draft other pattern styles that maintain the sloper’s fit. Learn this in Fitting Home Sewing Patterns (Grading to Fit.)

2. You can use your sloper to determine your grading coordinates. Now you can buy home sewing patterns and grade them to fit. Gone are the miserable fittings that often give less than perfect results. Learn this in Grading & Sewing a Blouse and Jacket.

3. You can take patterns off ready-made garments that fit you well. Learn this in Copying a Man's Shirt.

4. You can draft your patterns from your personal measurements. Learn this in Drafting & Fitting Pants and Skirts.

For many people these methods of drafting and fitting are faster, easier, and more accurate than trying to fit a preexisting pattern. Although at present all of the above information is available only in the classes, the pant books are completed and available for sale. Throughout all of the books, each step is diagrammed, labeled, and numbered. The content has been and continues to be tested in the classroom to ensure that its material is both easily understood and practical, and that the instructions will fit all figure types.

Only a basic sewing machine and a few simple tools are required to compete all of the exercises.

The good thing about a home sewing foundation is that you already have many of the sewing techniques necessary to learn industrial design. You won’t be re-learning or starting from scratch. You will be learning a method which works every time because it is based on engineering principals. Your clothing will reflect this engineered approach. It will never look sloppy or “home made”. No one will ask you if you made your clothing because they will not be able to tell that you made it. Instead, they will think you are very well dressed, tailored, and probably have spent a fortune on your clothing!