Love at first stitch Demystifying dressmaking

Tilly Walnes

Book - 2014

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Published
Boston : Roost Books 2014.
Language
English
Main Author
Tilly Walnes (-)
Item Description
Originally published: London: Quadrille Publishing, Ltd., 2014.
Includes index.
Physical Description
191 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm + 3 folded pattern sheets
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN
9781611802344
  • Garment gallery
  • My story
  • How to use this book
  • You will need ...
  • Brigitte scarf
  • Techniques setting up your sewing machine
  • Stitching school
  • Pinning
  • Adjusting stitches
  • Make it your own square neck scarf
  • Embellish with topstitching
  • Make it a lifestyle fearless sewing
  • Margot pajamas
  • Techniques choosing your fabric
  • Preparing your pattern
  • Laying out fabric and pattern
  • Cutting out fabric pieces
  • Transferring the markings
  • Understanding clothing construction
  • Simple seam allowance finishes
  • Pressing matters
  • Hemming
  • Make it your own patch pocket
  • Shorter length
  • Make it a lifestyle how to behave in a fabric store
  • Delphine skirt
  • Techniques pattern sizing
  • Understanding ease
  • Interfacing
  • Inserting an invisible zipper
  • Make it your own belt loops
  • Decorate with buttons
  • Make it a lifestyle creating an inspiring sewing space
  • Megan dress
  • Techniques fitting your garment
  • Staystitching
  • Shaping with darts and dart tucks
  • Attaching a neckline facing
  • Setting in sleeves
  • Make it your own create a faux placket
  • Add a ribbon trimming
  • Make it a lifestyle becoming a designer
  • Clémence skirt
  • Techniques making a simple skirt pattern
  • French seams
  • Gathering
  • Stitch in the ditch
  • Make it your own side-seam pockets
  • Bow belt
  • Make it a lifestyle fitting sewing into a busy life
  • Mimi blouse
  • Techniques making a collar
  • Buttonholes
  • Sewing on buttons
  • Make it your own piping the yoke seams 52
  • Fabric-covered buttons
  • Make it a lifestyle dressing handmade
  • Lilou dress
  • Techniques lining a garment
  • Fashioning pleats
  • Slipstitching
  • Make it your own sculpt a scallop neckline
  • Gathered skirt
  • Make it a lifestyle sewing solo, sewing socially
  • What next?
  • Sewing with and without patterns.