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Illustrated Guide to Advanced Dressmaking & Alteration: Learn to Make & Alter Dresses, Skirts, Shirts, Slacks. Add Pockets, Frills, Buttons, Zippers & So Much More - Over 180 Images & Illustrations

Catherine Morris

3/5 ( ratings)

Illustrated Guide to Advanced Dressmaking

& Alteration

Learn to Make & Alter Dresses, Skirts, and Shirts, Slacks Add Pockets, Frills, Buttons, Zippers & So Much More

Look in your closet, how many dresses, skirts, slack, and shirts are there that you or your significant other can’t wear anymore either because they are too big or too small? How about that old favorite dress or slacks with a broken zipper, buttons or hooks? Do you have a dress you wish there were little frills on the front of it? Or that shirt, wish it had a pocket? Let me show you how easily you can get all of these done in no time, just follow my instruction and look at the image.I have been sewing for over 21 years now. I have taught dressmaking to alternation in various setting for the last eleven years. I designed this guide for anyone who wants to learn alteration of any and all wearables both for women and men. You DO NOT need to be a master in sewing to get started, I promise you. Just follow the steps and watch the images I shared in this guide, and you will be on your way in no time.This is a two-part guide. In the first part of I show you all the advanced steps and inner workings of custom dressmaking. In the second part, I show you how to alter many types of garments in a few simple steps.
Here is a Glimpse of What I Shared in This Book:

Explanation of all Garment Components
How to Control Fullness
Darts & Dart Manipulation Methods
What & How to Make Various Types of Pleats
What & How to Make Perfect Gathers
What is Shirring & How to Shirr Fabric the Proper Way
What & How to Make Proper Smocking
How to Make 6 Types of Sleeves
How to Make Proper Sleeve/Bodice Combination
How to Develop Sleeve Patterns
How to Make & Attach all 5 Popular types of Pockets
How to Make all 11 Types of Popular Dress Necklines
How to Make Various Types of Collars
How to Make 3 types of Yokes
How to Make 3 Types of Cuffs
How to Make 4 Types of Waistbands
How to Pick & Attach the Proper Fasteners
How to add Pockets
How to add Cuffs & Collars
How to Change a Knife Pleated Dress to a Box Pleated Skirt
How to Change Dress Neckline & sleeves
How to Replace a Zipper Fly
And so much more.

Pages: 205

Format: Kindle Edition

Publisher: Lost River Publishing House

Release: January 14, 2019

Illustrated Guide to Advanced Dressmaking & Alteration: Learn to Make & Alter Dresses, Skirts, Shirts, Slacks. Add Pockets, Frills, Buttons, Zippers & So Much More - Over 180 Images & Illustrations

Catherine Morris

3/5 ( ratings)

Illustrated Guide to Advanced Dressmaking

& Alteration

Learn to Make & Alter Dresses, Skirts, and Shirts, Slacks Add Pockets, Frills, Buttons, Zippers & So Much More

Look in your closet, how many dresses, skirts, slack, and shirts are there that you or your significant other can’t wear anymore either because they are too big or too small? How about that old favorite dress or slacks with a broken zipper, buttons or hooks? Do you have a dress you wish there were little frills on the front of it? Or that shirt, wish it had a pocket? Let me show you how easily you can get all of these done in no time, just follow my instruction and look at the image.I have been sewing for over 21 years now. I have taught dressmaking to alternation in various setting for the last eleven years. I designed this guide for anyone who wants to learn alteration of any and all wearables both for women and men. You DO NOT need to be a master in sewing to get started, I promise you. Just follow the steps and watch the images I shared in this guide, and you will be on your way in no time.This is a two-part guide. In the first part of I show you all the advanced steps and inner workings of custom dressmaking. In the second part, I show you how to alter many types of garments in a few simple steps.
Here is a Glimpse of What I Shared in This Book:

Explanation of all Garment Components
How to Control Fullness
Darts & Dart Manipulation Methods
What & How to Make Various Types of Pleats
What & How to Make Perfect Gathers
What is Shirring & How to Shirr Fabric the Proper Way
What & How to Make Proper Smocking
How to Make 6 Types of Sleeves
How to Make Proper Sleeve/Bodice Combination
How to Develop Sleeve Patterns
How to Make & Attach all 5 Popular types of Pockets
How to Make all 11 Types of Popular Dress Necklines
How to Make Various Types of Collars
How to Make 3 types of Yokes
How to Make 3 Types of Cuffs
How to Make 4 Types of Waistbands
How to Pick & Attach the Proper Fasteners
How to add Pockets
How to add Cuffs & Collars
How to Change a Knife Pleated Dress to a Box Pleated Skirt
How to Change Dress Neckline & sleeves
How to Replace a Zipper Fly
And so much more.

Pages: 205

Format: Kindle Edition

Publisher: Lost River Publishing House

Release: January 14, 2019

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