Debbie Shore's Sewing Room Secrets: Essential Skills for Dressmakers: Top Tips and Techniques for Successful Sewing

This guide is for beginners who want to learn dressmaking, covering essential skills such as reading and adjusting patterns, choosing and cutting fabric, adding zips, pockets, and buttons, and adapting old garments. It also includes ten inventive projects to try using pre-loved clothes and provides knowledge to make clothes from scratch.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 96 pages
Publication date: 21 February 2021
Publisher: Search Press Ltd

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.

Weight: 360g
Dimension: 205 x 260 x 8 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781782217473