Sew Sensational Shirts — Designing Book & Online Course

Shirt Pattern Design Book + Online Sewing Course

Sew Sensational Shirts is a shirt pattern design book and online course for makers ready to advance their shirt pattern drafting skills. Using your fitted Sure Fit Designs Shirt Kit sloper as a foundation, this garment design guide walks you through six custom-fit projects — from a hoodie jacket and shirtwaist dress to wrap blouses, overblouses, and a bonus crossover-shoulder T-shirt.

This comprehensive design book and accompanying online course guide you through six coordinated shirt and blouse projects, including a hoodie jacket, shirtwaist dress, asymmetrical wrap blouse, detachable-collar overblouse, pleated blouse, and crossover-shoulder T-shirt.

Each project begins with your fitted Shirt Kit sloper and demonstrates how the foundation can be reshaped, adapted, and developed into new styles while preserving the fit established through the Sure Fit Designs system.

Key Benefits

• Create multiple garment designs from one fitted shirt sloper
• Strengthen your understanding of shirt-pattern development
• Learn how style lines, collars, plackets, pleats, necklines, and garment proportions work together
• Follow detailed written instructions supported by clear illustrations
• Reinforce the design process through the accompanying online course
• Build confidence adapting your sloper into shirts, blouses, jackets, dresses, and knit styles
• Develop greater freedom to create custom-fit garments for yourself or others

What You'll Learn

• The basic principles of working with the Sure Fit Designs Shirt Kit
• How to transform a shirt sloper into a casual hoodie jacket
• How to develop a classic shirtwaist dress
• How to create an asymmetrical wrap blouse
• How to design an overblouse with a detachable collar
• How to incorporate pleats and a placket into a blouse design
• How to adapt the shirt foundation into a crossover-shoulder T-shirt

Included Design Projects

• Hoodie Jacket
• Shirtwaist Dress
• Asymmetrical Wrap Blouse
• Detachable Collar Overblouse
• Pleats and Placket Blouse
• Bonus: Crossover Shoulder T-Shirt

Who This Is For

Sew Sensational Shirts is designed for makers who have completed a fitted shirt sloper and are ready to explore a wider range of garment-design possibilities.

It is especially useful for:

• Home sewists creating custom-fit shirts and blouses
• Sewing instructors teaching sloper-based design
• Custom clothing makers designing garments for clients
• Fashion and pattern-design students
• Experienced makers seeking greater creative freedom
• Anyone ready to develop more styles from a fitted shirt foundation

Requirements

Basic familiarity with sewing, pattern alteration, and garment construction is recommended.

What's Included

• The comprehensive Sew Sensational Shirts design book
• Detailed, illustrated pattern-development instructions
• Unlimited access to the online course
• Six coordinated garment-design projects, including one bonus style

What You'll Be Able to Do

By completing Sew Sensational Shirts, you will be able to use your fitted shirt sloper as the starting point for a broader range of custom-fit garments. You will gain greater confidence reshaping pattern pieces, developing new style lines, combining shirt-design features, and creating garments that reflect your own design vision.