The Savvy Seamstress: An Illustrated Guide to Customizing Your Favorite Patterns
Nov 2017 · C&T Publishing Inc
star
1 review
Ebook
425
Pages
family_home
Eligible
info
About this ebook
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
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
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 photo...
Ratings and reviews
1 review
About the author
Nicole Mallalieu has been sewing obsessively since the age of three. Since then, she has achieved a degree in fashion and worked as a designer, pattern maker, author, sewing teacher, and fashion lecturer. She lives in Melbourne, Australia.
Nicole Mallalieu has been sewing obsessively since the age of three. Since then, she has achieved a degree in fashion and worked as a designer, pattern maker, author, sewing teacher, and fashion lecturer. She lives in Melbourne, Australia.
Rate this ebook
Tell us what you think.
Reading information
Smartphones and tablets
Install the Google Play Books app for Android and iPad/iPhone. It syncs automatically with your account and allows you to read online or offline wherever you are.
Laptops and computers
You can listen to audiobooks purchased on Google Play using your computer's web browser.
eReaders and other devices
To read on e-ink devices like Kobo eReaders, you'll need to download a file and transfer it to your device. Follow the detailed Help Center instructions to transfer the files to supported eReaders.
