The Dressmaker's Technique Bible

The Dressmaker's Technique Bible
Author: Lorna Knight
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008
Genre: Dressmaking
ISBN: 9780715329542

Offers techniques for designing and making clothes, whether you are following a pattern, adding embellishements, or designing garments from scratch. This book includes illustrated instructions, which explain the essential dressmaking techniques. It is suitable for beginners, or those who are already designing or making their own clothes.

Dressmaking

Dressmaking
Author: Alison Smith
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2012-08-20
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 146540516X

An invaluable resource, Dressmaking will guide you through all the stages of making, altering, and customizing clothes. Starting with the Tools and Materials, you will learn what you need to buy and how to use it. The Fabrics chapter demonstrates the drape and weave of fabrics and explains the best uses of each. The Patterns chapter covers everything from understanding a pattern to altering one. In General Techniques, close-up photography and guiding annotation to explain key techniques step by step. A section on Basic Patterns and Variations then guides you through creating six garments. Patterns and detailed step-by-step instructions are provided for a skirt, dress, shirt, tee, jacket, and pair of trousers. Instructions are also given for possible variations of each garment. Finally, chapters on Alterations and repairs and Customizing offer practical tips for repairing worn items and inspiration for modernizing tired pieces. Packed with essential advice and inspiration, this is the dressmaking bible that no budding seamstress should be without.

Clotilde's Sew Smart

Clotilde's Sew Smart
Author: Clotilde Lampe
Publisher: DRG Wholesale
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2004
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 0974821705

Whether you want to create a tailored jacket, sew a collar that lies flat, fashion a one-of-a-kind special-occasion outfit or learn the subtleties of working with faux leather, the information is in this book. You will also find detailed instructions based on Clotilde's years of experience and sewing expertise. It's like having Clotilde in your sewing room to answer your questions as you plan and create each new clothing project.

The Vogue/Butterick Step-by-step Guide to Sewing Techniques

The Vogue/Butterick Step-by-step Guide to Sewing Techniques
Author: Butterick Company
Publisher: Touchstone
Total Pages: 415
Release: 1989
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780671896669

A sourcebook for the home sewer contains more than 500 fundamental techniques for altering or repairing garments, using patterns, and creating your own designs

The Dressmaking Book

The Dressmaking Book
Author: Alison Smith
Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021-02-02
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780241459737

Choose the perfect fabrics for any project, try your hand at a range of machine-sewing techniques, and put your new-found knowledge to use with 13 downloadable patterns that can be adapted to create more than 30 stylish garments. With step-by-step guides and patterns to make classic dresses, skirts, tops, trousers, and jackets, alongside ideas for refreshing and reinventing your old clothes

Knitting Without Tears

Knitting Without Tears
Author: Elizabeth Zimmerman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 128
Release: 1973-07
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 0684135051

The author guides the novice and the experienced knitters in short-cuts and construction tricks and offers twenty original designs.

Dressmaking to Flatter Your Shape

Dressmaking to Flatter Your Shape
Author: Lorna Knight
Publisher: A&C Black Visual Arts
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2012
Genre: Custom-made clothing
ISBN: 9781408170885

Making well-fitting clothes is a challenge for many dressmakers, but especially so for those of us with a curvy shape or a plus-size. This book shows you how to take a standard commercial pattern in a larger size, make some smart adjustments, and end up with clothes that will give you a great, flattering fit. Dressmaking to Flatter Your Shape includes detailed information on selecting fabrics and choosing styles to fit your shape. It explains how to get a perfect fit out of any sewing pattern, with troubleshooting techniques to cover tricky points such as shoulders, necklines, sleeves, hips and waists. Using this book you will also pick up tips on how to personalise a pattern to your own style, by changing the collar or cuffs of a top, or even by drafting your very own skirt pattern from scratch!

Couture Techniques

Couture Techniques
Author: Fox Chapel Publishing
Publisher: Design Originals
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2011
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781565235342

"llustrated Guide to Sewing: Couture Techniques" guides readers through the characteristics that separate basic sewing from couture such as a custom fit, meticulous handwork, and quality construction. Starting with an overview on important topics such as working with fine fabrics, custom fitting garments, and hand stitching, readers will go on to learn how to create one-of-a-kind fashions that have shape, strength, and beauty with close-up chapters on creating couture collars, necklines, sleeves, and more

Plant Lady Embroidery

Plant Lady Embroidery
Author: Applemints
Publisher: Quarry Books
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2020-04-28
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1631598457

Brimming with over 300 botanical motifs, this wonderful resource will provide inspiration and instructions for embroidery artists and flower ladies everywhere. This collection features designs including flowers, ferns, succulents, leaves, bees and garden scenes. The books includes basic embroidery instruction for stitches and transferring designs onto fabric. Original designs and clear instructions make this book a must have for any embroidery enthusiast's library.

The Great British Sewing Bee: The Techniques

The Great British Sewing Bee: The Techniques
Author: The Great British Sewing Bee
Publisher: Hardie Grant Publishing
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2021-04-29
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1787137724

The BBC primetime series The Great British Sewing Bee, is back. Starting with the basics, from how to use a sewing machine and understand paper patterns, to knowing your fabrics and how to achieve that perfect finish – this is a go-to guide that you will keep referring back to. With a section that demystifies the fitting process, and with expert sewing tips on making alterations, you'll be able to choose from a variety of projects that will ease you into the world of sewing. For burgeoning sewers, this technique-focused book reveals the joys of sewing and the tools and skills required to progress. Interspersed with essential tips, from advice on finishing – tacking, hand stitching, hemming and more – to guidance on adding decorative finishes including piping, exposed zips, appliqué and more, this book is an indispensable reference that will encourage you to take the leap and start creating long-lasting projects to cherish.