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Dear fellow tailor,
Mowgli and I must raise £100,000 by 1 October 2025 to start our "Alterations Video Library" project. We need your support today.
This FREE library will have 200+ videos of individual alterations, indexed by seam. Each video shows a fitting problem, followed by the pattern corrections and final results with side-by-side comparisons.
You will learn to fit in minutes, not days. This will be the most important tailoring project of the century. And you can be part of it by funding it today.
If you ever wanted to change the world, now is your chance. Please join us in making a giant leap in the history of tailoring education.
Thank you,
Reza, Founder of International School of Tailoring
Watch this snippet from Lesson 34. The videos in The Alteration Library will be an enhanced version of this presentation style. This library will make fittings as easy as finding directions with GPS.
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I can't wait to see your progress!
Happy to share my observations. I get lots of opportunities to spot abnormalities, as I make mistakes all the time.ðĪĢ
You mentioned you are using the Purple Box Bundle; it would be great to see what you've done and hear about any discoveries you made along the way. I'm still practicing hand stitches. ðĪŠ I agree with you about the hands on practice. It's funny, I can watch a video several times but every time I try to do it myself, there's always some little something that throws me off. It's one thing to see it, it's another thing to feel it. One problem for me is arthritis. Hand sewing is going to be a challenge, but I'll get it done.
As I mentioned in my boat seat arm sewing, I had a hell of a time sewing a long, flat piece of fabric around the edge of an oval. I still think there should be a way to stretch the outer edge of the smaller seam allowance to match the longer one, but I haven't figured that one out yet. I tried it with an iron and ended up over-stretching it ð
Anyway...looking forward to seeing more of your work.
Hi Kathy,
Good job. I haven't done these yet, but it looks like your skills are coming right along. I am wondering about the paper sleeves. Numbers 1 and 2 seem right, but 3 and 4 seem odd at the shoulder. It might just be the angle they are laying on the table. The sleeve holes at the shoulder don't look like they came out round or oval. If the pattern cutting was difficult or you ran into a problem, I'd love to hear about it. Personally, I learn a lot more when I make mistakes; I don't like it, but the end result is always a better product and a better understanding as to how I got there.
The arm hole fullness exercise looks like it came out really well. Now...is that the fabric you're making your jacket out of? ð Pretty fancy! Actually, I noticed you opted not to use a perfect circle. In Reza's lesson, to the semitry of a circle seemed to help him distribute fabric a section at a time, which makes sense, but if it's not a semetrical shape, like yours, I'd imagine it is more difficult to judge how much fabric should be eased over a particular section. I'd also imagine it made it difficult to keep from creating puckers at the seam that would lend themselves to flattening out with an iron.
Thanks for sharing.ð