"Now you can finally get pants to fit with a method that makes sense."

"How To Fit Pants | How To Fit Skirts"

"Here is the fitting method to help you achieve fitting success in fitting pants and fitting skirts"

"Common Sense Fitting Method
For Hard-To-Fit Sewing Folks
Who Want Great Fitting
Skirts And Pants"

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How To Avoid Sewing and Fitting Frustration
When Sewing For Yourself And Others

Marian Lewis, Sewing and Fitting Instructor, diagnosed the fitting problems and cooked up the formula to cure your fitting disease.

In her common sense fitting course, Marian reveals a brand new, never published before, tried, tested and true fitting method  to make your skirts and pants fit no matter what your shape or size. . . especially targeted to  Senior Women and aging Baby Boomers, but it works for ALL Hard-To-Fit Folks.

In a simple, no-nonsense, common sense fitting method, this course is guaranteed to help you sew the greatest fitting skirts and pants you’ve ever had by teaching you how to discover:

  • WHAT your body needs   (You don’t need a measuring tape for this!)
  • WHERE your body needs it (Where in the heck are YOUR lumps and bumps?)
  • HOW to apply that to a commercial pattern. (No kidding!)
From the Desk of Marian Lewis

Dear Sewing Friend:

Your chances of sewing a skirt or pair of pants that really fit your unique body just got better than ever…


If you sew, this may be
the MOST important letter you ever read!

 
I call you “Sewing Friend” because we share a bond:  a love of sewing!  There is something really special about folks who sew.  We enjoy creating and sharing.  The pleasure we get from making something is both rewarding and therapeutic.

We love sewing things for others like our children and grandchildren, but don’t sew anything for ourselves anymore.  And WHY is that?  It is the same old “bugaboo” that we have complained about for so many years - -

FITTING - FITTING - FITTING

    *      FITTING is the #1 problem for most people who sew!

    *      FITTING is the #1 reason most people give up sewing!

What we say most often is:

“I used to sew for myself, but I don’t anymore.

Why?

"Because,  I simply can't fit myself!"

Or

"I don't know how to make commercial sewing patterns fit me."

Or

"I don't understand what I need or how to apply what I need to a pattern."

Now, wait a minute!

Aren’t there several fitting books out there with many different methods to show you how to fit when you sew?  Weren’t you taught by qualified teachers how to fit?  There is fitting advice everywhere.  Shouldn’t you be an expert by now?   I thought I should be.

Why, I’ve even been teaching sewing and fitting for many years!  What nerve!
Well, some of the time, the fitting methods worked and some of the time, they didn’t.  Sometimes, it was just a lucky guess.

Fitting pants was an absolute nightmare at times.  And, all the ladies wanted great fitting pants without going through a dozen trials first.

I couldn’t stand not being able to come up with the right fit for all of my students. . especially the senior ladies!  It literally drove me crazy and actually made me sick at times.

I was considered an excellent sewing teacher and fitting expert.  I knew all the techniques out there.  I tried them all!  I worked so hard! 

I studied more and more, but the answer didn’t come.  I attended lots of seminars, but the answer didn’t come.  I finally realized that it didn’t come because it wasn’t there.  They were all basically saying the same thing and it wasn't what I needed to know.

I had to find it for myself.  It wasn’t the alteration methods that the experts teach, whichever one it is.  They are fine teachers with doable methods.  However, I felt it was what they weren’t teaching that was my problem!

 I didn’t know WHAT I really needed and WHERE I really needed it.  The tape measure didn’t  tell me that.

40" around the hip on a tape measure tells you nothing about WHERE that 40 inches is when you are sewing  for an “unbalanced lopsided” person.  (And, more of us are more “unbalanced and lopsided” than we realize, but don’t even know it.)

With more “Baby Boomers” joining the senior ranks, there will be more of us “unbalanced” due to osteoporosis, arthritis, scoliosis, old age, surgeries, etc. 

Anyway, I have all those things and multiple problems to address…not just one or two that you see in a book.  I wasn’t in any book. 

 I had to find a way to determine exactly what I needed and where I needed it.  I am SO HARD-TO-FIT.   I am a MISFIT!!  That’s what drove me to develop this method.  I call it my:

“Common Sense Fitting Method
For Hard-To-Fit Sewing Folks
Who Want Great
Fitting Skirts And Pants”

I know that is a mouthful, but it says it all.  I tell it like it is.  No dancing around the issue.

No, this is NOT another alteration method.
Who needs more of those?

No, this is NOT a sewing construction method.

Nor, does it have anything to do with design or draping

There are a number of excellent books, videos, DVDs out there already to cover all those things.   They are probably on your bookshelf right now!

What the heck is it?

It is a measuring method of sorts, but you DON'T use a tape measure.
 Huh?
Yes, that is right! 

You don’t need it here.  It is a common sense approach to discover WHAT you need and WHERE you need it.  No guessing! 

 And then, the kicker!
  This is so GREAT!


After you learn WHAT you need
and WHERE you need it,

you’ll learn HOW to apply that to a commercial sewing pattern

so that you can “cut to fit”
and NOT fit AFTER you cut.

WOW!

  Is that a dream come true or what?
Doesn’t it sound intriguing?
It is possible! 

Believe it!

And NO, it has nothing to do with making a “mold” of your body either!  You don’t need anything fancy or expensive to do this and you can even do it by yourself in an afternoon!

It is easy to do.  You don’t need to be an engineer to figure this out.  I give you step by step instructions.  It is really quite simple.  Like I said, it is common sense!

NO, you have never heard of this before!  This is a brand new helpful aid to get you what you want without all the headaches and frustration.

How many fitting courses have you already taken?

How many books/videos/DVDs do you have in your Sewing Library?
How many sewing and fitting pants "muslins" have you made that simply never fit?
How much money have you invested in this sewing project?
And, the big question is:
How many great fitting pants and skirts do you have to show for all your sewing efforts?
Could it be that YOU are a MISFIT, too?  Check out an example of a pants fitting problem here.

Fitting can be so-o-o-o-o-o-o frustrating!  It costs you both time and money and keeps you from enjoying your sewing craft to the fullest.  Fitting caused many of you to just “give up” sewing!  What a shame! 

I know all this because I am one of you!  I have been there and done that many times over for many years.  All the training, classes, seminars, books, videos, lectures and private personal fittings brought me less than desirable results.
I am NOT stupid!   I am the fitting expert, remember?

But, somehow, nothing worked quite right for me.  I just didn’t get what I needed to get my own “perfect fit.”  Was my body that weird?
I do have a “high hip”, but I didn’t think I looked all that “unbalanced.”  Little did I know!

I was told to go home and “tweak” it a bit or “try this” or “try that”.
Well, believe me, all the tweaking, pinching, tucking, slashing, spreading, sliding, pivoting, gnashing of teeth, standing on my head, trying on half paper patterns or full fabric “muslins” and praying didn’t do it.
Well, maybe the praying did help. . .in God’s own time!

Over the years, things got even worse!

Many of us are Senior Citizens now and our bodies have shifted and changed drastically.  We may even be the same weight and same measurements that we were many moons ago, but it is in a different place now.

It just happened one day.   How do we deal with that?

There is an answer!

If you are a senior citizen, you know that neither the garment industry nor the sewing pattern companies take our aging bodies into consideration.

  So, YOU are hard-to-fit and truly a MISFIT!

Well, maybe you aren’t a senior yet, but if you have fitting problems with no answers, YOU might be MISFIT!  Believe me, time only increases your fitting problems!  So, learn how to solve them now.

We all like to sew nice clothes that fit.   We have graduations, weddings, anniversary parties, reunions, family and social events to attend, cruises to go on and we can’t wear “prom dresses”.  And, we don’t want to wear “baggy, cover it all up” matronly things either. 

Looking “motherly” is OK, but “matronly” is definitely NOT!  I don’t care what your age is!  I have seen some 12 year olds that look “matronly.”  No one EVER wants to look “matronly.”

Well, isn’t it about time that you became a MISS FIT?

Wouldn’t you love to sew your own clothes knowing that you have perfect fit when you cut the garment out?
I’ll teach you exactly what to do and it won't cost you a small fortune either.

I have to admit that I procrastinated in getting my fitting method out to the “world”.  I just wasn’t sure how to do that.  I didn’t have a ton of money to pour into this project.   I simply didn’t have the confidence in myself.

I made so many excuses.  I was too old now!  I couldn’t physically hold up to traveling and teaching seminars around the country!  I’ve had cancer twice, the left side of my face is paralyzed, my back is bad! On and on! Excuses, excuses!

After all, wasn’t sewing “dead.”  “No one sews anymore.”  “They do crafts, but don’t make their clothes.”  “They don’t sew to save money when they can buy it cheaper at the store!”

"They don't care if it doesn't fit."  Or, do they???

All the while, I knew in my heart that I had some really good information that I absolutely needed to share with the sewing world, whoever and wherever they were. 

Stores still sell sewing machines. . .very expensive ones, I might add.  Fabric stores still sell and fabric, notions and sewing patterns.  Someone must still be sewing!

Couldn’t THEY use some help with a  "Common Sense Fitting Course" and some sewing courses that teach,  "It Doesn't Look Homemade Sewing Techniques?"   I had to reach them.  My teaching soul urged me to try!  But, how?

A Revelation!

Then, one day, while surfing on the internet (my grandkids taught me how) looking for something else, I discovered a "how to" eBook!  WOW!  It hit me like a bolt out of the blue.  Thank you, Lord!  You answered my prayer!

This was the way to reach sewing enthusiasts around the world right from my home.  This would be my legacy!  I felt it was my calling!  I was so excited that I could hardly contain myself.  My poor husband thought I had lost it!  I had so much to learn about the internet.

Could I do it?  Well, here you have it!  Gammy did it!  My grandson fed my words back to me.
."YOU CAN DO ANYTHING YOU REALLY WANT TO!"
  "NEVER, EVER GIVE UP!"
"HOLD ON TO YOUR DREAM AND WORK HARD!"
"IT REALLY WILL COME TRUE!"

I presented this fitting method to my local chapter of the American Sewing Guild.  I am pleased to tell you they are having enormous success.  It is such a joy to see the smiles on their faces as they “sew and tell” about their new skirts and pants that FIT!  And, they are always anxious to learn more! 

One of my students just recovered from quadruple by-pass surgery.  Sylvia had lost so much weight that her clothes were hanging on her.  By using this method, she created a brand new basic skirt and pants pattern.  Her husband was so pleased with the results that he sent a photo of her in her new pants to all their relatives and friends showing them how good she looked.  The pants fit perfectly and they made her look healthier than when she wore the baggy clothes.  They made her feel better, too.  When you look good, you feel good!


Val, another sewing friend has been in the sewing business for many years, but was never able to fit herself and struggled with fitting others.  Sound familiar?  Val has scoliosis, a curvature of the spine like I do, except she has an “S” curve where I have a “C”.  With her new basic patterns that fit, Val not only looks good herself, but now knows how to solve fitting problems for her customers and students.  Hallelujah!  It works!

Now, you can take advantage of my years of teaching and searching for the Common Sense answers to your questions.  I’m not out to bash other methods, techniques or teachers.  I just want to add to what they have to offer.  It just might be what you are looking for and now it is here for you. 

It is a small investment with a great benefit to you.

Do you sew for a living
or just to make some extra cash?

Top reasons to use this method:

1.      Make more money
2.      Save time (That leads to making more money!)
3.      Avoid effort in ripping and stitching
4.      Escape the pain of fitting frustration
5.      Gain confidence to fit ANY body
6.      Gain praise from satisfied customers
7.      Be more popular with more customers who will refer more business.
8.      Become known as the “expert.”
9.      Feel confident when cutting expensive fabric.
10.    Feel proud of your “creations.”
11.    Design with certainty.
12.    Eliminate “guess work.”
13.    Look more professional by practicing what you preach. . .good fit!


Do you sew for your family and self?

More than a dozen reasons to use this method:

1.      Save money
2.      Save time
3.      Avoid effort in ripping and stitching
4.      Escape the pain of fitting frustration
5.      Gain confidence to fit ANY body
6.      Gain praise from family, friends and other sewing  and non-sewing folks
7.      Look more youthful and slimmer.  (We all need that!)
8.      Have more good looking garments in your wardrobe that actually FIT.
9.      Feel a lot more comfortable in your clothing
10.    Feel confident when you cut your best fabric.
11.    Use up that “stash” and make your husband happy. (A BIG reason!)
12.    Fewer UFOs (unfinished objects) in your sewing room.
13.    Eliminate MUSLINS in the trash!
14.    Feel proud of your “creations.”


The BOTTOM LINE here is...


If you want to learn the easiest, most accurate way to know. .
  • WHAT you need to get a great fit for YOUR body
  • WHERE you need it 
  • HOW to apply that to a comercial pattern, then you absolutely MUST get my. . .
"Common Sense Fitting Method
 For Hard-To-Fit Sewing Folks
Who Want Great Fitting Skirts And Pants”


If you could learn to really fit the skirts and pants that you sew and save time, save money and energy and look terrific, how much would you be willing to pay for a course?

How about only $39 $29 for a limited time.

You can't find a step-by-step course like this anywhere for that price!

  Click Here To Get Started!

Can't decide?  There's still more...lots more!
Look at these:

“It Doesn't LOOK Homemade" Sewing Technique BONUSES  absolutely FREE if you act NOW!

This is really quite a deal!  You are getting BOTH skirt and pants in one book PLUS, I’m including two special  "It Doesn't LOOK Homemade” BONUSES that I know you will really enjoy.

You won’t want to miss out on this opportunity.  All of these things may be offered separately in  future sewing courses.   So get clicking and fitting and looking good TODAY!

Let me tell you a little about your bonuses.  They are really worth the price of the book alone.  You are going to love knowing how to do these.  And, even more importantly, you will really love the way you look and feel when you use these techniques.  They are some of those "secrets" the guidesheets just never tell you.

"It Doesn't LOOK Homemade" BONUS #1:

"Designer Comfort Waistband"

I will include step-by-step instructions on how to sew your own “Designer Comfort Waistband” that grows with you when you go out to dinner.  It lets you eat and breathe.

The Designer Comfort Waistband is my favorite band.  It accommodates my size change from morning to night.  My waist increases by 2 inches during the day and a regular straight band cuts into me by the end of the day.  Who needs that discomfort?

"It Doesn't LOOK Homemade" BONUS #2:

"European Pants Pressing Technique"

I’ll reveal the European pants pressing technique that makes your pant legs hang just right and eliminates "baggy knees and shin plastered pants!"  This is done prior to stitching.  It is so easy and looks so smart!

The only thing standing between you and a successful fit for your unique body is the specialized information I’ll teach you in this course.

Here’s how to order right now!

Click here for an INSTANT download of your common sense fitting course:

"Common Sense Fitting Method
For Hard-To-Fit Sewing Folks
 Who Want Great Fitting Skirts And Pants"



Once your credit card is approved, check your email to verify your purchase immediately and then you will get a special download page where you will download your fitting course along with your FREE BONUSES.

You can read it on your computer or print out a copy...

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Purchase online with a credit card by secure server
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It doesn't matter if it's 2:00 AM in the morning!

Isn't this internet "stuff" awesome?

You will be downloading and reading the fitting course and incredible bonuses within just a few minutes...and using it to create the absolutely best fitting skirts and pants you ever had!

Even though we feel our site is secure,  I know some of you have a problem with using
a credit card online.  Contact me and I will try to accommodate you.

To Your Sewing and Fitting Success,


Marian Lewis

PS: 
Even if you are a grandmother, you can do this.  I am a grandmother writing this for you!  Get the kids to help you download your fitting course if you are unsure how to do it.  Then, teach them how to sew and get good fit from the start.  Don't let sewing become a lost art!  Keep stitching and pass it on!

If you are a beginner or an expert at sewing, you, too, can achieve great results with this method.  Remember it is just common sense!  You have everything to gain!

PPS:
  If you are tired of wasting time and money and being frustrated as heck trying to get a good fit, then get this course.  It's about one thing - quickly learning and easily using the simple techniques, and tools that make you a huge success with the least effort in the shortest time possible. 

PPPS:
This is the fitting method you have been waiting for.  It is a real “breakthrough” for you.  It is just common sense.  Don’t delay!  It is 100% to your benefit to start using this technique right away!

Try it!  You’ll like it!  You can’t mess this up if you follow the step by step instructions.  You can even do it yourself!  I tell you how to do that!

Here’s how to order right NOW!  Click HERE to get started to a more gorgeous you – Miss Fit!  “Awesome” as the kids say!
Sewing and fitting success can be yours.
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