An accomplished fashion designer shows women who make their own garments how to improve on store-bought sewing patterns by adjusting the clothing item's length and other details to reflect personal taste and create a custom fit. The book's opening chapters present an illustrated guide to the tools, equipment, and fabrics needed for making garments, while also serving as a miniature textbook to teach basic sewing techniques. Chapters that follow offer detailed instruction in adapting and altering a store-bought pattern to suit individual tastes. Alterations include adding flare, and modifying the shapes of bodices, arm holes, neck lines, sleeves, and skirts. The book's concluding chapters instruct on designing one's own patterns from scratch. Author Lee Hollahan demonstrates to her readers that once they understand how to adapt a store-bought pattern, they are well on their way to custom designing their own wardrobe. More than 500 instructive illustrations.

How to Use, Adapt, and Design Sewing Patterns: From store-bought patterns to drafting your own: a complete guide to fashion sewing with confidence

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Hollahan, Lee

Crafts & Hobbies

B.E.S.

A guide to getting the most from sewing patterns, from choosing the right size to translating flat shapes into wearable garments. It shows you how to change the shaping, length and detailing to suit your own body shape, taste and style, and once you've mastered that it shows you how to make a new pattern out of a shop-bought pattern and even how to draft your own patterns from scratch. This book is suitable for the amateur as well as the more experienced dressmaker.

How To Use Adapt & Design Sewing Pattern

Arts & Photography

Decorative Arts & Design

Herbert

Explains the process of using and adapting commercial sewing patterns, and shows how to create original patterns.

CÓMO UTILIZAR, ADAPTAR Y DISEÑAR PATRONES DE COSTURA (Spanish Edition)

Editorial El Drac, S.L.

Come usare, adattare e progettare cartamodelli per la creazione di abiti

Il Castello

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