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The Beginners Guide to Dressmaking: Sewing techniques and patterns to make your own clothes by Wendy Ward (Paperback, 2014)

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ISBN-13: 9781446304945, 978-1446304945. The Beginners Guide to Dressmaking Sewing Techniques and Patterns to Make Your Own Clothes. Fed up of fast fashion and fancy making your own clothes?. This is the ultimate guide to dressmaking for absolute beginners.

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This is the ultimate guide to how to make your own clothes even if you have never done so before. As well as step-by-step instructions for all the basic dressmaking techniques, there are six garments to choose from. It even includes multi-sized paper patterns for all the garments so you can get started immediately. The garments include a maxi dress/skirt, jersey top, simple jacket, trousers, fishtail skirt and a shift dress. The author has also included advanced techniques for optional techniques such as pockets and collars which you can choose to add to the basic patterns as your skills improve. CONTENTS LIST: 1. The Projects (building in complexity, each project to have made-up samples photographed in different fabrics to aid in fabric choice and using the different modular elements to personalise style and increase skill level): Fishtail skirt Techniques covered: centred zip, bias binding, gathering. Modular elements: patch pockets. Jersey maxi skirt / dress Techniques covered: sewing knit fabrics, gathering. Modular elements: length options, adding extra seams. Jersey top Techniques covered: sewing knits finishing edges. Modular elements: adding extra seams. Simple boxy biker style jacket Techniques covered: sleeves, exposed open-end zip, bias binding. Modular elements: collar, patch pockets, additional seams. Loose trouser (jersey fold over waistband / woven legs) Techniques covered: sewing knit fabrics, pleats. Modular elements: side seam pockets, length options. Shift dress Techniques covered: centred zip, pleats, darts, understitching. Modular elements: optional sleeve, collar, side seam pocket, adding extra seams. 2. Basic Techniques (a section to refer to when working on the projects, this section needs a comprehensive contents page): Seams ways to neaten edges how to get accurate, straight seams, including sewing and neatening curved seams. Simple centred zip. Exposed / open-ended zip. Bias binding used as a trim / used as a facing. Gathering. Pleats. Hems. Darts. Setting in sleeves. Understitching (facings). Cutting to include explanations of straight grain, selvedges, bias, etc (including knit fabrics). Taking measurements and how to relate to size charts for patterns in book, include body measurement size chart in this section, each project has its own finished garment measurement chart. Include an explanation of ease here. Sewing knit fabrics seams / hems / edges / cutting. 3. Modular Elements (optional techniques that could be applied to the projects to personalise and customise and increase skill level): Adding additional seams to the patterns in order to mix fabrics. Flat collar. Standing collar. Side seam pockets. Patch pockets. 4. Resources where to buy fabrics and haberdashery suitable for the projects described. 5. Glossary a list of the different kinds of fabrics, their best uses (i.e. Simple styles, draped styles, will it be warm fabric to wear, how would you care for the finished garment would it be washable, etc) and their advantages and disadvantages.|Do you dream of making your own unique clothes which you won't see anyone else wearing? Have you got a collection of fantastic fabrics just waiting to be turned in to clothes? This is the ultimate guide to how to make your own clothes even if you have never done so before.

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9781446304945
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Book Title
The Beginners Guide to Dressmaking: Sewing Techniques and Patterns to Make Your Own Clothes
Author
Wendy Ward
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Crafts
Publication Year
2014
Number of Pages
128 Pages

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276mm
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210mm

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Wendy Ward
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