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After reading several posts lately, and asking questions about fitting for a curved spine, I bought a copy of "Fast Fit." It's on the way.

In the mean time, I've come across a copy of "Fitting Finesse" by Nancy Zieman and have been reading it while waiting on the other book to arrive. The book is well-illustrated and the directions seem easy to follow. I've done a NG google on this book and found mostly very positive responses to Nancy's book. However, most of these responses were from the late 90's. She does address the issue of curved spines, dropped shoulder, and one hip higher than the other.

My question (finally) is, how does Nancy's book compare to "Fast Fit?" Which method do you all prefer? Are any of you using pivot/slide methods exclusively? I couldn't find many comparisons between the two books.

Thanks in advance, Cindy in WV

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sewingbythecea

Pivot and slide, moving seamline and slash and spread (or slash and overlap) are all actually quite equivalent methods of altering a pattern. You wind up with the same result, just going about it different ways. So pick the method that makes the most sense to you for that alteration (or just makes more sense, period) and use it.

My personal favorite book for pattern alteration is Liechty, Pottberg and Rasband's Fitting and Pattern Alteration: A multimethod approach. This is almost encyclopedic in the number of issues addressed, and it tells you how to do it with each of the approaches. It's a little dry in its tone, but if I had to have only one book on fitting problems, this would be it. I'd suggest that you borrow it from the library first to see if you like it, however, as it's a bit pricey. I understand also there's a new edition due out before too much longer.

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Kay Lancaster

I'm joining with Cea on this--since I've been making my own patterns (hand drafting, Wild Ginger, etc), I feel that I've become a better sewist, and more familiar with the entire process in general. Especially good are the computer programs, because you can see the changes right on the screen, before you have to stitch something up. It's fascinating to see how small changes translate to a completely different body shape, too.

Karen Maslowski in Cincinnati

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SewStorm

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