The Savvy Seamstress

The Savvy Seamstress
Author: Nicole Mallalieu
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2017-11-01
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1617453129

A fashion expert’s techniques, tips, and tricks for transforming your favorite garment patterns—one small detail at a time! Add or remove pockets. Adjust the neckline. Create new cuffs. Swap a zippered back to a button front. With step-by-step instructions, clear illustrations, and how-to photos in this guide, you’ll learn professional design alterations for your favorite men’s, women’s, and children’s commercial sewing patterns. Whether you have basic sewing skills or are a confident dressmaker, you can learn to be your own fashion designer! “Each chapter focuses on a specific topic, and Mallalieu provides a concise explanation and expert tips, as well as numerous diagrams and photographs . . . Skilled sewists interested in altering their favorite patterns will find an abundance of advice.” —Library Journal

Sewing Solutions

Sewing Solutions
Author: Nicole Vasbinder
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2012-01-07
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1620337312

Even the best sewists will encounter problems, snags, and little glitches in their work. Expert sewist and author Nicole Vasbinder's Sewing Solutions is an indispensable reference filled with invaluable advice you can trust. Organized by stages, you'll find: • Detailed advice for the sewing process, including pros and cons, and basic considerations of working in each step. • An easy-to-follow layout providing basic information as well as step-by-step techniques for making bias tape, sewing trims, buttonholes, zippers, hems, and more. • Easy-tonavigate color-coded cross-references available for quick referencing. • Troubleshooting tips that advise how to deal with every sewing situation. Whether choosing the right tools, reading patterns correctly, or everything in between, Sewing Solutions will prove to be an essential sewing companion.

More Fabric Savvy

More Fabric Savvy
Author: Sandra Betzina
Publisher: Taunton
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781561586622

A new edition of the best-selling fabric guide includes all-new updated information on the selection of the best fabrics for a variety of projects and how to make the most of them, including new tips and more than three hundred color photographs.

Stylish Dress Book

Stylish Dress Book
Author: Yoshiko Tsukiori
Publisher:
Total Pages: 87
Release: 2011
Genre: Dressmaking
ISBN: 9780143203902

Japanese craft books are loved the world over for their beautiful and practical design, unique aesthetic, and their clear, meticulous and educational instruction. Translated into English for the first time, Stylish Dress Book contains 26 projects for beautiful dresses and blouses. Elegant and loose-fitting, the pieces in this book are designed to be worn in any season and are suitable for women of all ages. The easy-to-follow instructions are accompanied by detailed diagrams and gorgeous full-colour photographs. The full-sized pattern sheets have been adapted for Western sizing and run from AU 6 - 16. IMPORTANT CORRECTION: Correction: The sleeve pattern piece for Dress Y, pictured p. 34, How to Make p. 82, is missing from the pattern sheet. Clik the link in the left side navigation pane to download the Y Sleeve pattern piece.

Fast Fit

Fast Fit
Author: Sandra Betzina
Publisher: Taunton
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781561586493

Every sewer has to make pattern alterations at one time or another and this book provides a fresh approach to this normally complex subject.

Fabric Savvy

Fabric Savvy
Author: Sandra Betzina
Publisher: Taunton
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2002
Genre: Dressmaking materials
ISBN: 9781561585731

The fabric-lover's guide to cloth offers preshrinking instructions and advice on layout, marking, interfacing, and hemming.

The Savvy Seamstress

The Savvy Seamstress
Author: Nicole Mallalieu
Publisher: Stash Books
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2017
Genre: CRAFTS & HOBBIES
ISBN: 9781617453113

"Get a few new tricks up your sleeve! Learn to alter existing patterns using fashion-industry methods; add stylish details like pockets, plackets, and zippers with how-to illustrations and photos, with lots of sewing tricks and tips; change up waistlines, shirt yokes, necklines, sleeves, cuffs, and more to adapt your favorite garment or develop your limitless fashion wardrobe." -- Back cover.

No Time To Sew

No Time To Sew
Author: Sandra Betzina
Publisher: Rodale
Total Pages: 230
Release: 1996-10-15
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780875967448

Provides patterns and instructions for sewing pants, vests, t-shirts, jackets, skirts, and dresses

Power Sewing Toolbox Volume One

Power Sewing Toolbox Volume One
Author: Sandra Betzina
Publisher: Power Sewing
Total Pages: 9
Release: 2011
Genre: Clothing and dress
ISBN: 0982322313

The Power Sewing Toolbox Volume 1 contains over 200 tips and techniques as well as the following features: Hardback with enclosed spiral so that it lies flat, Printed on high quality glossy paper stock, Step-by-step photos literally hopping off the page, Written instructions in a size larger type and easy to read font enable me to actually read the copy without my glasses, and a super detailed index makes it easy to reference something later.

Bend-the-rules Sewing

Bend-the-rules Sewing
Author: Amy Karol
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780307347213

A clear, common-sense guide to sewing presents twenty-five innovative projects for the home or wardrobe along with information on basic equipment, techniques, and supplies and tips on selecting and using fabrics.