Master Sewing and Design Professional Certification Programs
You’ve mastered the skills — now become certified!
The Master Sewing and Design Professional (MSDP) Certification Program is a performance-based testing program, not a school. It is based on ASDP’s Standards of Quality and is open to anyone with sewing-related skills. MSDP certification provides the professional with the prestigious credentials that validate skills and expertise.
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MSDP Graduate
“I was pleasantly surprised at how much MORE sewing knowledge I gained working through the MSDP Certification program. Completing the MSDP Certification verified that work I was doing was excellent and accurate. The information and skills that I gained through the process have enhanced my sewing and business acumen.”
– Barbie McCormick
Dressmaker, Teacher
MSDP Graduate
“I have been grateful for the course work that I studied in preparation for certification. During my study for the Design Module I learned about Body Balance Points. Several months after completing the certification I was able to use my notes from the Certification Program to calculate a new client’s Balance Points and thus recommend the best neckline shape for her. She was delighted with the resulting garment. I now use this information on Body Balance Points in the classes I teach.”
– Helen Haughey Designs
Dressmaker, Teacher
MSDP & MAS Graduate
“Earning my Certification gave me a sense of confidence. I could confidently say I was a Master of my profession.”
– Linda Stewart
Teacher, Author & Alteration Specialist
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Providing professionals with the prestigious credentials that validate skills and expertise.
Books
Alterations for Professionals
Alterations for Professionals: Because Ready-to-wear isn’t.
Downloads for both books included FREE with MAS Certification Enrollment
This downloadable book is the essential guide to mastering alterations. The book first covers the business aspects you need to know to be successful, prepared, safe and legal.
Having an alterations business involves much more than just knowing how to sew. You are now a professional, you own a business and that is where you must start. Home based? Store front? Insurance, taxes, license, pricing and even customer relations are all an integral part of starting your business. This book covers them all.
Techniques covered are those you will face every day. Hems of all kinds including pants, cuffs, sleeves and the myriad of ways to do each. Taking in seams and letting them out, and when to say NO!
You will learn to analyze the garment on your client and determine the exact alteration needed. One example: you will learn the proper placement of hems to be most flattering. You will also learn what “add on” services you can offer to increase your profits..
The essential education program. Professional alterations training in one easy-to-follow book on CD. Lavishly illustrated with photos and drawings. Gain confidence and knowledge…clients and profits will follow!
Please note these are downloadable books. They are NOT videos. All of the books have full color photographs and may be printed for your convenience in using.
Bridal and Formal Alterations
Working with specialty fabrics and lace involves a whole new skill set. Business policies must also be revisited to account for the responsibilities involved in working on much more expensive garments. All of this is covered in the second book in the Alterations for Professionals Series, Bridal & Formalwear.
Techniques for working with lace, silks, satin, beads, rhinestones, sequins are all covered, as well as special fitting challenges inherent in formalwear and wedding gowns. Includes a section on bustling wedding gowns.
Both Books have sections on sourcing as well as re-styling.
Alterations for Professionals $75
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Alterations for Bridal and Formalwear $75
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Both Books $125
Alterations for Professionals and Alterations for Bridal and Formalwear
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All purchases of digitally downloadable books and books on CD are final