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Debbie Shore's Sewing Room Secrets: Essential Skills for Dressmakers - Debbie Shore

Debbie Shore's Sewing Room Secrets: Essential Skills for Dressmakers

Top Tips and Techniques for Successful Sewing

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Buch | Softcover
96 Seiten
2021
Search Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78221-747-3 (ISBN)
CHF 19,90 inkl. MwSt
Packed with key skills and friendly know-how, this essential guide is ideal for anyone taking their first steps into dressmaking.



The latest title in Debbie Shore's Sewing Room Secrets series, this essential guide is packed with key skills and friendly know-how and is ideal for anyone taking their first steps into dressmaking. It covers the important basics such as: how to read and adjust a pattern; how to choose, mark and cut fabric; how to add zips, pockets and buttons; how to adapt old, misshapen or over-sized garments, and how to do some basic mending – all shown step-by-step.



This book is a toolkit designed to equip you with all the dressmaking skills you need; it contains ten inventive projects for you to try your hand at using your own pre-loved clothes, and gives you all the knowledge you need to make your own clothes from scratch using the pattern of your choice.

Debbie Shore is a best-selling and award-winning author. She began her career as a children's television presenter and since then has appeared regularly as an actress in various popular dramas and as a presenter on shopping channels. Debbie has developed her own range of fabrics, designed her own patterns, writes for several popular sewing magazine and has written over 20 books for Search Press with several more underway. She is the winner of Craft Influencer of the Year 2020 in the Craft Business Awards, and Social Media Influencer of the Year 2019 in the British Sewing Awards. Debbie has over 230,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel, which has over 30 million views. In 2018, Debbie launched her Half Yard Sewing Club, a monthly subscription service based on the megaselling Half Yard™ series, and won the 2019 IPG Digital Publishing Award. For more details about the club visit www.halfyardsewingclub.com.   Debbie lives in Lincolnshire, UK. Visit her website www.debbieshoresewing.com.

About this book 5

About me 6

my quick tips 7

dressmaking essentials 8

Tools & equipment 9

Fabrics 20

Fabric terminology 23

Interfacing 24

Threads 25



Dressmaking know-how 26

Pressing vs ironing 27

Measuring yourself 28

Choosing a pattern 31

Understanding pattern symbols 32

Cutting your pattern 34

Transferring pattern symbols 36

Cutting fabric 38

Making a toile 39

Machine stitches 40

Special stitches 42

Darts 43

Seams 44

Hems 46

Project Kimono Jacket 48

Bindings 50

Zips 52

Closures 57

Project Tunic Sweater Dress 60

Pockets 62

Project Shirt Skirt 64

Project Old to New Joggers 66

Shirring 70

Sewing elastic 71

Project Sweater Skirt 72

Project Wrap Skirt 74

Project Circle Skirt 76

Project Off-the-Shoulder Top 78

Appliqué 80

Project Child’s Shirt Dress and Headband 82

Project Batwing Dress 84



Make it fit 88

Mend it 92

Index 96

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Debbie Shore’s Sewing Room Secrets
Zusatzinfo 400 Illustrations, color
Verlagsort Tunbridge Wells
Sprache englisch
Maße 204 x 260 mm
Gewicht 362 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Freizeit / Hobby Handarbeit / Textiles
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Freizeit / Hobby Kreatives Gestalten
ISBN-10 1-78221-747-9 / 1782217479
ISBN-13 978-1-78221-747-3 / 9781782217473
Zustand Neuware
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