The Savvy Seamstress: An Illustrated Guide to Customizing Your Favorite Patterns

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

© 2017 Stash Books (E-kirja): 9781617453120

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E-kirja: 1. marraskuuta 2017