Easy Guide to Sewing Linings

Easy Guide to Sewing Linings
Author: Connie Long
Publisher: Taunton
Total Pages: 153
Release: 1998
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781561582259

Discusses all of the available options when adding linings to clothing, explaining how to make a lining pattern when the garment pattern doesn't include one, how to choose the best lining style, and how to line different types of fabric

Easy Guide to Sewing Pants

Easy Guide to Sewing Pants
Author: Lynn MacIntyre
Publisher: Taunton
Total Pages: 159
Release: 1998
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781561582334

Explains how to make a properly fitted pair of pants from start to finish, with tips on taking measurements, choosing patterns and fabrics, adjusting commercial patterns, and adding zippers and waistbands

Easy Guide to Sewing Jackets

Easy Guide to Sewing Jackets
Author: Cecelia Podolak
Publisher: Taunton
Total Pages: 112
Release: 1995
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781561580873

Offers advice and instructions for sewing classic collarless jackets, from choosing patterns and fabrics to using the latest sewing techniques

A Beginner's Guide to Making Skirts

A Beginner's Guide to Making Skirts
Author: Wendy Ward
Publisher: CICO Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-10-25
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781782493709

All the techniques, clear step-by-step artworks, and patterns you need to make 24 wonderful skirts All the techniques, clear step-by-step artworks, and patterns you need to make 24 wonderful skirts INCLUDES THREE FULL SIZE PATTERN SHEETS FOR US DRESS SIZES 4 TO 22 Follow Wendy Ward’s tutorials to make a wide range of stylish skirts. From 8 basic shapes—circle, A-line, stretch pencil, wrap, bubble, tailored pencil, front-opening, and culottes—you will learn the skills to make variations that have pockets, color blocking, gathers, ruching, darts, and much more. All the basic techniques you will need are also explained, so you’ll feel confident with essentials like inserting zippers, attaching waistbands, gathering, pleats, making buttonholes, and adding linings. There are also handy hints and tips on how to take measurements and on choosing the right fabric. Skirts are the perfect first garment for beginner dressmakers, and there are some really simple designs here—the jersey pencil skirt is just two pieces of fabric with an elasticated waistband! So arm yourself with this book, some fabric, and Wendy’s sewing wisdom, and you’ll be on your way to updating your wardrobe with unique skirts that are a perfect fit.

Easy Guide to Sewing Skirts

Easy Guide to Sewing Skirts
Author: Marcy Tilton
Publisher: Taunton
Total Pages: 112
Release: 1995
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781561580880

Provides step-by-step instructions for skirt construction, including techniques for pockets, darts, waistbands, pleats, and hems

Oliver + S Building Block Dress

Oliver + S Building Block Dress
Author: Liesl Gibson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2016-09-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9780692687253

Imagine it. Make it! You don't need to be a designer or pattern maker to create and sew the dress of your dreams. Let Liesl Gibson, founder and designer of Oliver + S sewing patterns, show you how to alter the elements of a pattern to make exactly the dress you imagine. Oliver + S Building Block Dress: A Sewing Pattern Alteration Guide shows you how to customize all the elements of a basic dress pattern. With the included Building Block Dress pattern and Liesl Gibson's detailed pattern alternation instructions, you'll learn how to create almost any dress you can imagine. Let Liesl show you how to change sleeves, silhouettes, pockets, necklines, hems, closures, and linings. By combining the elements presented in the book, you'll be able to make thousands of unique dresses. The only limit is your imagination! Use the skills you learn in this book to customize other patterns as well. With these techniques, you'll look at sewing patterns as just the starting point for your creative expression.

Tailoring

Tailoring
Author: Creative Publishing International
Publisher: Creative Publishing International
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2011-05
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1589236092

Tailoring is the complete photo guide to sewing jackets and coats. Written by sewing professionals, this book teaches the trusted, proven methods for sewing tailored jackets with impeccable details and perfect fit. Written for the intermediate sewer who wants to move on to more challenging projects, this book ensures success with detailed, step-by-step instructions, more than 400 photos, in-depth discussions about products and how to use them. Tailoring offers guidance for every aspect of tailoring a jacket: fitting and pattern alteration, fabrics and tools, interfacings, interlinings, seams and finishes, hand stitches, collars, pressing, topstitching, shaping shoulders, setting in sleeves, sewing pockets, vents, and making perfect buttonholes.

Decorative Dressmaking

Decorative Dressmaking
Author: Susan Jane Thompson
Publisher: Rodale Books
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1985
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN:

"A Phoebe Phillips editions book"--T.p. verso. Includes index.

Sample Workbook to Accompany Professional Sewing Techniques for Designers

Sample Workbook to Accompany Professional Sewing Techniques for Designers
Author: Julie Cole
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2014-06-05
Genre: Design
ISBN: 160901880X

This companion workbook consists of project instructions and card stock worksheets in a 3-hole binder for convenient storage. Using these resources, students can store sewn sample garment details and record design information for design projects. The instructions for each project list the supplies and tasks needed to prepare the samples, plus clear cross references to sewing techniques in the textbook, Professional Sewing Techniques for Designers, 2nd Edition, and the supplementary half-scales patterns available to complete projects. Sample and Sewing worksheets are made of card stock for durable sample mounting and include space to attach sample and label sewing techniques, fabric type, fiber content, lining type, interfacing type, stitching order, stitch length, and notes on where to use the stitching technique on a garment and stitching mistakes. As students use the workbook to practice the sewing techniques, it becomes an ongoing resource and part of the design student's fashion library.