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Learn what a SBA is, understand the term Small Bust Adjustment and whether you might need to do a Small Bust Adjustment on garments you are making. In...
Learn how to do a Full Bust Adjustment in this week’s tutorial. In our basic FBA tutorial Aneka will share tips for choosing the right size pattern,...
Have you heard of the term FBA – Full Bust Adjustment? Are you unsure if you need to do an FBA on your garment? In this What Is? tutorial, I discuss...
Learn how to move darts, both bust darts and contour darts to work with the position of your individual Bust Apex. In this tutorial I share tips for r...
Today’s tutorial shares tips and techniques for sewing a contour dart. Also known as a fish eye dart and/or double ended dart. In this tutorial Anek...
Today’s What Is? video has launched on YouTube. Learn and understand the sewing term ‘Contour Dart’. A contour dart can also be known as a doubl...
Learn tips and techniques for sewing a French dart and/or cutaway dart in today’s YouTube tutorial. In this tutorial Aneka shares how to sew a dart,...
Learn how to take measurements to your bust apex and mark these details onto a dressmaking pattern. This will allow you to move the bust apex to the p...
Understand the term French Dart in this week’s What Is tutorial. Learn what they look like and where you would find a French Dart on a garment....
Learn how to find a bust apex on a dressmaking pattern that doesn’t have one. This tutorial will show you how to work with a bodice that has a singl...
In this weeks What Is? tutorial I cover the term Bust Apex | Bust Point. A simple but required term for future tutorials that I will be filming: Full ...
Learn how to reduce dart bulk and create professional looking darts in this week’s pattern cutting tutorial. In this short video we share tips for c...