Sewing for Plus Sizes - Barbara Deckert (PDF)

Writes Deckert, "The goal of all plus-size design is to emphasize your positive attributes and modify or distract from those you feel are less desirable."

Deckert is herself a plus-sized woman and a custom clothier with more than 30 years of sewing experience. Given that most clothing manufacturers have never learned to design attractive, well-fitting clothes for women who wear a size 14 or larger, the woman who wants to achieve style beyond size must sew her own clothes. This book will make that task less formidable.

Illustrated with photos of plus-sized models, including the author herself, this book emphasizes analyzing pattern designs based on individual figure proportions and working effectively with fabric color and texture. Major sections of the book are devoted to tools for plus-sized sewing (including instructions for making an inexpensive personal paper-tape dress form), choosing fabric, taking measurements, "sizing-up" commercial patterns for the plus-sized figure, and modifying patterns to make clothing more comfortable and durable.

A book focused more on modifying commercial patterns than drafting your own, but pretty much essential for anyone sewing/fitting women's clothes on the larger end of the bell curve. Has annoying watermarks from whoever released it, but still perfectly readable.

Barbara Deckert: “If you are plus sized sewing for yourself is social activism.”

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