Book Review - The Dressmaker's Technique Bible

 

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Synopsis

All the guidance you need to create beautiful clothes, whether you are following a pattern, adding embellishments or starting from scratch. The step by step instructions for a wide range of dressmaking techniques from basic patterns through to couture designs makes it suitable for beginners as well as sewers with more experience. Easy-to-follow, highly illustrated instructions explain the essential dressmaking techniques - allowing you to work confidently from a pattern to create beautiful clothes that fit perfectly. It features an at-a-glance guide to basic garment shapes and styles, cross referenced with the relevant techniques throughout the book. Includes advice on body shape, choosing the right fabric for the right garment as well as decorative sewing techniques such as embroidery and appliqué. It features step techniques for making basic garment details including waistbands, hems, sleeves, cuffs, necklines, collars, fastenings, pockets and linings. Suitable for beginners, or those who are already designing or making their own clothes, this is the perfect book for honing dressmaking skills and inspiring fashionable new designs. 

                                                                                                                         

Chapter 1 - Getting Started

In chapter 1 you will find the following sections:

The essential tools, sewing machines and overlockers, needles and pins, thread, haberdashery, selecting a pattern or design, adapting a pattern, the body shapes guide and fashion shapes.

Chapter 2 - Fabric Manipulation

In chapter 2 you will find the following sections:

Seams, seam finishes, darts, tucks, pleats, elastic, gathering, zips, bias cut and internal fabrics.

Chapter 3 - Techniques

In chapter 3 you will find the following sections:

Waistbands, hems, sleeves, cuffs, necklines, collars, fastenings, pockets and linings

Chapter 4 - Embellishments Ideas

In chapter 4 you will find the following sections:

Top stitching, decorative machine stitching, machine embroidery, hand embroidery, appliqué, beads and beading, adding lace and ribbon, patchwork, quilting, drawn threads, piping, couching, fringing, smocking, felting with an embellisher machine, wing needle effects, over locked edges - rolled, picot and lettuce and over locked flat locking

                                                                                                                               

The Dressmaker's Technique Bible: A Complete Guide to Fashion Sewing Techniques is a handy little reference book to have.

This book is ideal for either beginner, intermediate or advanced.

 The Dressmaker's Technique Bible: A Complete Guide to Fashion Sewing Techniques   is a small handy size,  spiral bound making it easy to use, clear diagrams and step by step guides to techniques.

 The dressmakers Technique Bible is available from   Amazon

Disclosure: I buy sewing books from on-line shops with my own money, I am not being paid for writing this review. All my reviews are honest and on things that I genuinely love and would recommend to my readers.