Easy Dressmaking Techniques

Kathleen Blaxland (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

128 Seiten

2001
Sally Milner Publishing Pty Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-86351-281-7 (ISBN)

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A guide to help all age groups learn to sew and understand step by step instructions. Plus 18 projects with patterns.

It is an art to take a flat piece of material and make it into a convex shape to fit the body. This book is a guide to help all age groups learn to sew and understand step by step instructions. It covers basic requirements for all beginning sewers and for anyone needing revision in their basic sewing techniques. Contains patterns.

Kathleen Blaxland has been a sewing teacher as well as a designer of full ranges of day, wedding and children's fashions. She is a well-known costume designer and a major prizewinner at shows and exhibitions.

Introduction. Sewing kit. Sewing with a sewing machine. Sewing samples. Pressing. Body measurement charts. Needle and thread chart. Reading a pattern. The toile. Cutting out. Tacking. Basting. Tailor tacks. Seams. Facings. Interfacing. Understitching. Topstitching. Darts. Bias strips. Bindings. Rouleaus. Gathering. Collars. Cuffs. Waistband. Setting in a zip. Sleeves. Pockets. Pleats. Hand-sewing. Buttonholes. Sewing on buttons. Hooks and eyes. Patterns.

Reihe/Serie	Milner Craft Series
Zusatzinfo	128 Illustrations, color
Verlagsort	Binda
Sprache	englisch
Maße	185 x 260 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Handarbeit / Textiles
ISBN-10	1-86351-281-0 / 1863512810
ISBN-13	978-1-86351-281-7 / 9781863512817
Zustand	Neuware