Illustrated Guide to Advanced Dressmaking & Alteration: Learn to Make & Alter Dresses, Skirts, Shirts, Slacks. Add Pockets, Frills, Buttons, Zippers & So Much More - Over 180 Images & Illustrations
Illustrated Guide to Advanced Dressmaking & Alteration: Learn to Make & Alter Dresses, Skirts, Shirts, Slacks. Add Pockets, Frills, Buttons, Zippers & So Much More - Over 180 Images & Illustrations
Learn to Make & Alter Dresses, Skirts, and Shirts, Slacks Add Pockets, Frills, Buttons, Zippers & So Much More Look in your closet, how many dresses, skirts, slack, and shirts are there that you or your significant other can't wear anymore either because they are too big or too small? How about that old favorite dress or slacks with a broken zipper, buttons or hooks? Do you have a dress you wish there were little frills on the front of it? Or that shirt, wish it had a pocket? Let me show you how easily you can get all of ...
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Learn to Make & Alter Dresses, Skirts, and Shirts, Slacks Add Pockets, Frills, Buttons, Zippers & So Much More Look in your closet, how many dresses, skirts, slack, and shirts are there that you or your significant other can't wear anymore either because they are too big or too small? How about that old favorite dress or slacks with a broken zipper, buttons or hooks? Do you have a dress you wish there were little frills on the front of it? Or that shirt, wish it had a pocket? Let me show you how easily you can get all of these done in no time, just follow my instruction and look at the image. I have been sewing for over 21 years now. I have taught dressmaking to alternation in various setting for the last eleven years. I designed this guide for anyone who wants to learn alteration of any and all wearables both for women and men. You DO NOT need to be a master in sewing to get started, I promise you. Just follow the steps and watch the images I shared in this guide, and you will be on your way in no time. This Illustrated Guide to Advanced Dressmaking & Alteration Book is a Two-Part Guide . In the first part of I show you all the advanced steps and inner workings of custom dressmaking. In the second part, I show you how to alter many types of garments in a few simple steps. Here is a Glimpse of What I Shared in This Book: Explanation of all Garment Components How to Control Fullness Darts & Dart Manipulation Methods What & How to Make Various Types of Pleats What & How to Make Perfect Gathers What is Shirring & How to Shirr Fabric the Proper Way What & How to Make Proper Smocking How to Make 6 Types of Sleeves How to Make Proper Sleeve/Bodice Combination How to Develop Sleeve Patterns How to Make & Attach all 5 Popular types of Pockets How to Make all 11 Types of Popular Dress Necklines How to Make Various Types of Collars How to Make 3 types of Yokes How to Make 3 Types of Cuffs How to Make 4 Types of Waistbands How to Pick & Attach the Proper Fasteners (Buttons, Hooks, Zippers & Velcro) How to add Pockets How to add Cuffs & Collars How to Change a Knife Pleated Dress to a Box Pleated Skirt How to Change Dress Neckline & sleeves How to Replace a Zipper Fly And so much more. BONUS - If you buy the Paperback version from Amazon, you can download the eBook Version for FREE, so you can see all the 180 images in FULL COLOR
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Very good. Ex-library. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 212 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white. Audience: General/trade. Advanced dressmaking & alteration guide: learn to make & alter dresses, skirts, shirts, and slacks. Add pockets, frills, zippers & so much more: step by step visual illustrated guide 6 reviews Author: Catherine Morris (Author) Summary: Look in your closet, how many dresses, skirts, slack, and shirts are there that you or your significant other can't wear anymore either because they are too big or too small? How about that old favorite dress or slacks with a broken zipper, buttons or hooks? Do you have a dress you wish there were little frills on the front of it? Or that shirt, wish it had a pocket? Let me show you how easily you can get all of these done in no time, just follow my instruction and look at the image. I have been sewing for over 21 years now. I have taught dressmaking to alternation in various setting for the last eleven years. I designed this guide for anyone who wants to learn alteration of any and all wearables both for women and men. You DO NOT need to be a master in sewing to get started, I promise you. Just follow the steps and watch the images I shared in this guide, and you will be on your way in no time. This is a two-part guide. In the first part of I show you all the advanced steps and inner workings of custom dressmaking. In the second part, I show you how to alter many types of garments in a few simple steps Print Book, English, 2019 Edition: First edition Publisher: Lost River Publishing House, [United States], 2019 Physical Description: 212 pages: illustrations; 28 cm. ISBN: 9781794138575, 1794138579 OCLC Number / Unique Identifier: 1134451994 Subjects: Clothing and dress Alteration Couture (Profession) Couture (Profession) Mode?les Cre?ation Couture Technique Dressmaking Dressmaking Pattern design Sewing Technique Ve?tements Retouches dressmaking Contents: Common sewing terms Tools and equipment used in dressmaking & alteration Garment components Control of fullness Dart manipulation methods Pleats Gathers Shirring Smocking Sleeves Sleeve/bodice combination Pockets Necklines Collars Yokes Cuffs Waistbands Garment opening fasteners Garment alteration
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