How to Use, Adapt and Design Sewing Patterns

by Lee Hollahan

A guide to getting the most from sewing patterns, from choosing theright size to translating flat shapes into wearable garments. It showsyou how to change the shaping, length and detailing to suit your ownbody shape, taste and style, and once you've mastered that it shows youhow to make a new pattern out of a shop-bought pattern and even how to draftyour own patterns from scratch. This book is suitable for the amateur aswell as the more experienced dressmaker.

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