Dressmaking by Alison Smith Mbe

Dressmaking by Alison Smith Mbe

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Provides all the know-how you need to create your own wardrobe. This book gives you the tools you need to make, alter and customise your own clothes, from choosing the right fabrics to key techniques such as hemming and hand stitching. It is packed with advice, inspiration and the patterns you need to create beautiful clothes.

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Dressmaking by Alison Smith Mbe

Dressmaking gives you all the tools you need to make, alter and customise your own clothes, from choosing the right fabrics to key techniques such as hemming and hand stitching. Create a complete wardrobe with 12 basic scaleable patterns and step-bystep instructions for classic items such as pencil skirts, dresses and jackets plus how to customise them to make them your own so you can make 30 garments in total. Dressmaking is packed with essential advice, inspiration and the patterns you need to create beautiful clothes making this superb value and the dressmaking bible no seamstress can be without.
Alison set up her own shop, Fabulous Fabric, and sewing school, the Alison Victoria School of Sewing, near her home in Leicestershire. Her school is the largest independent sewing school in England and offers courses and workshops on all aspects of sewing. Alison is a regular contributor to Sewing World magazine, and has appeared on the ITV television series Ladette to Lady teaching dressmaking skills.
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ISBN 13 9781409384632
ISBN 10 1409384632
Title Dressmaking
Author Alison Smith Mbe
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Dorling Kindersley Ltd
Year published 2012-09-03
Number of pages 320
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.