Dressmaking : the complete step-by-step guide to making your own clothes
Edition
1st American ed.
Publication Information
New York, N.Y. : DK Publishing, 2012.
Physical Description
320 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Summary
Discusses how to make, alter, and customize clothes; create a wardrobe complete with thirty garments; and mend and repair worn items.
Notes
Includes index.
Contents
- Tools & materials
- Basic sewing kit
- Needles and pins
- Threads
- Measuring and marking tools
- Cutting tools
- Notions
- Useful extras
- Sewing machine
- Serger
- Pressing aids
- Fabrics
- Wool fabrics
- Cotton fabrics
- Silk fabrics
- Linen fabrics
- Synthetic fabrics
- Patterns & cutting out
- Reading patterns
- Body measuring
- Altering patterns
- Making a toile
- Cutting out
- General techniques
- Stitches for hand sewing
- Machine stitches and seams
- Reducing seam bulk
- Darts
- Gathers
- Interfacings
- Facings
- Collars
- Waistbands
- Sleeves
- Pockets
- Hemlines
- Zippers
- Buttons
- Hooks and eyes and snaps
- Garments
- The skirts
- Classic A-line skirt
- Button front A-line skirt
- Classic tailored skirt
- Tailored evening skirt
- Classic pleated skirt
- Topstitched pleated skirt
- The dresses
- Classic shift dress
- Short-sleeved shift dress
- Square-neck shift dress
- Sleeveless shift dress
- Short sleeveless shift dress
- Classic waisted dress
- Short-sleeved waisted dress
- Sleeveless waisted dress
- Waisted cocktail dress
- Classic empire waist dress
- Sleeveless empire waist dress
- Long empire waist dress
- The pants
- Classic tailored pants
- Tapered capri pants
- Classic palazzo pants
- Wide-leg shorts
- The tops
- Classic shell top
- Tie-neck top
- Long-sleeved tunic
- Classic princess-line blouse
- Short-sleeved blouse
- The jackets
- Classic boxy jacket
- Boxy jacket with collar
- Classic shawl collar jacket
- Lined shawl collar jacket
- Mending & repairs
- Unpicking stitches
- Darning a hole
- Repairing fabric under a button
- Repairing a damaged buttonhole
- Mending a split in a seam
- Mending a tear with a fusible patch
- Repairing or replacing elastic
- Repairing a broken zipper
- Customizing
- Lengthening a skirt with a contrast band
- Turning jeans into a skirt
- Adding a collar and pockets to a dress
- Embellishing a dress with sequins and beads
- Embellishing a T-shirt with flowers
- Adding a ribbon trim to a cardigan
- Patterns.