Packed with key skills and friendly know-how, this essential guide is ideal for anyone taking their first steps into dressmaking
The latest title in Debbie Shore's Sewing Room Secrets series, this essential guide is packed with key skills and friendly know-how and is ideal for anyone taking their first steps into dressmaking. It covers the important basics such as: how to read any pattern; how to adapt and adjust a pattern; how to choose, mark and cut fabric; how to add zips, pockets, collars and buttons; how to adapt old, misshapen or over-sized garments, and how to do some basic mending - all shown step by step.
This book is a toolkit designed to equip you with all the dressmaking skills you need; it contains 10 inventive projects for you to try your hand at using your pre-loved clothes, and gives you all the knowledge you need to make your own clothes from scratch using the pattern of your choice.
Debbie Shore started her career as a children's television presenter and since then has appeared regularly on television both as an actress and selling products on a shopping channel. Debbie has also hosted live fashion shows with a major fashion store, produces her own range of instructional DVDs and writes for several popular sewing magazines. She is now a bestselling author and has written 12 books for Search Press, with several more underway. Debbie was voted Sewing Designer of the Year in the Immediate Media British Craft Awards 2017. She lives in Lincolnshire, UK. Visit her website www.debbieshoresewing.com and her YouTube channel http://bit.do/debbieshore_youtube
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Packed with key skills and friendly know-how, this essential guide is ideal for anyone taking their first steps into dressmaking
The latest title in Debbie Shore's Sewing Room Secrets series, this essential guide is packed with key skills and friendly know-how and is ideal for anyone taking their first steps into dressmaking. It covers the important basics such as: how to read any pattern; how to adapt and adjust a pattern; how to choose, mark and cut fabric; how to add zips, pockets, collars and buttons; how to adapt old, misshapen or over-sized garments, and how to do some basic mending - all shown step by step.
This book is a toolkit designed to equip you with all the dressmaking skills you need; it contains 10 inventive projects for you to try your hand at using your pre-loved clothes, and gives you all the knowledge you need to make your own clothes from scratch using the pattern of your choice.
Debbie Shore started her career as a children's television presenter and since then has appeared regularly on television both as an actress and selling products on a shopping channel. Debbie has also hosted live fashion shows with a major fashion store, produces her own range of instructional DVDs and writes for several popular sewing magazines. She is now a bestselling author and has written 12 books for Search Press, with several more underway. Debbie was voted Sewing Designer of the Year in the Immediate Media British Craft Awards 2017. She lives in Lincolnshire, UK. Visit her website www.debbieshoresewing.com and her YouTube channel http://bit.do/debbieshore_youtube
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