Design–It–Yourself Clothes

C Patch (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

160 Seiten

2009
Potter Craft (Verlag)
978-0-307-45139-2 (ISBN)

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A comprehensive guide to pattern drafting from concept to execution. Revealing how to measure a body and draft a perfect-fitting skirt, T-shirt, button-down shirt, dress and trousers, it features insider tips, explanations and how to endlessly alter patterns throughout. It offers 5 key projects, each with 4 variations.

This book explains everything a reader needs to customise sewing patterns and achieve perfect fitting clothes. It reveals how to measure a body and draft a perfect-fitting skirt, T-shirt, button-down shirt, dress and trousers. It also features insider tips, explanations and how to endlessly alter patterns throughout. Many modern sewers are looking to draft their own patterns - but the only books that teach the skill are dry and outdated. "Design-It-Yourself Clothes" is a comprehensive guide to pattern drafting from concept to execution by Cal Patch, a fashion designer with a modern aesthetic. Cal offers 5 key projects, each with 4 variations. She covers how to measure your body and draft a perfect-fitting skirt, T-shirt, button-down shirt, dress and trousers. Insider tips, explanations and exercises are sprinkled throughout, plus readers are shown how to create patterns from the clothes already in their wardrobes - without ripping out a single seam!

Cal Patch designed clothing and accessories for Urban Outfitters for almost a decade before striking out on her own clothing line. She currently teaches sewing and patternmaking around New York.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.10.2009
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	214 x 273 mm
Gewicht	674 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Handarbeit / Textiles
ISBN-10	0-307-45139-9 / 0307451399
ISBN-13	978-0-307-45139-2 / 9780307451392
Zustand	Neuware