The BurdaStyle Sewing Handbook: 5 Master Patterns, 15 Creative Projects

That awesome skirt in a fabric you adore. The one-of-a-kind dress you just knew would look cuter with a few extra details at the neck and hem. The blouse that fits perfectly. For experienced sewers, the book offer tips and tricks for mastering techniques, as well as tons of design inspiration from seventy-eight BurdaStyle members from all over the world.

Packed with easy-to-follow tutorials, blouse, dress, five adaptable sewing patterns for a skirt, coat, and bag, and fifteen step-by-step sewing projects, this book gives you the basic building blocks to begin sewing and the tools you need to move beyond the basics to designing and customizing your own wardrobe.

If you’ve never threaded a needle before, working with patterns, using your sewing machine and other tools, you’ll find essential information on setting up a studio, and getting the perfect fit. With its unique blend of fashion, creativity, and expert know-how, The BurdaStyle Sewing Handbook is the ultimate guide to sewing with style.

If you’ve ever made your own clothes, you know how empowering it can be. All made by you. Creating fashionable, custom-fitted clothing is often much easier than you think, and in their first book, BurdaStyle—the largest community of aspiring fashion designers and style-savvy sewers—will show you how.

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Wardrobe Essentials - BurdaStyle Modern Sewing

In addition to the 21 sewing patterns, there are 9 variations. Burdastyle modern sewing: Wardrobe Essentials includes 21 projects from the archives of BurdaStyle magazine. All of the must-have basics of a woman's wardrobe are covered in this collection: jackets, pants, blouses, skirts, and dresses. The designs include versatile separates as well as combinations that further expand the possibilities for the modern woman's wardrobe.

Wardrobe essentials includes a Burda 101 section that covers everything the reader needs to know to follow the patterns. Most of the projects are easy to intermediate, and sizes range from 2 to 14. Build your wardrobe with must-have modern basics from the premier name in fashion sewing--BurdaStyle. Burdastyle is a legendary brand that focuses on the fashionable and high-style sewing marketplace.

Interweave Press. Sewists know the BurdaStyle name and its reputation for high-quality sewing patterns. Many of the projects include illustrated step-by-step tutorials.


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BurdaStyle Modern Sewing - Dresses For Every Occasion

Although this book is not meant to be a primer on sewing, it includes a Burda 101 section that covers everything the reader needs to know to follow the patterns. With a few exceptions, all of the projects are easy to intermediate, and sizes range from 2 to 14. All of the must-have essentials of a woman's dress wardrobe are covered in this collection: everything from elegant and sophisticated dresses to casual and comfortable shifts.

Interweave Press. Build your wardrobe with the latest fashion styles found only from Burda patterns. Burdastyle modern sewing: dresses for Every Occasion includes 25 projects from the archives of BurdaStyle magazine. The burda patterns also include skirt and jacket separates for formal occasions that further expand the possibilities for the modern woman's wardrobe.

Several of the projects include illustrated step-by-step tutorials. The fashion styles are versatile and wearable, retro-remakes, including flirty halter tops, easygoing pullover styles, and formfitting classics. Interweave Press.


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How to Use, Adapt, and Design Sewing Patterns: From store-bought patterns to drafting your own: a complete guide to fashion sewing with confidence

Interweave Press. The book's concluding chapters instruct on designing one's own patterns from scratch. The book's opening chapters present an illustrated guide to the tools, and fabrics needed for making garments, equipment, while also serving as a miniature textbook to teach basic sewing techniques. Alterations include adding flare, arm holes, neck lines, and modifying the shapes of bodices, sleeves, and skirts.

Author lee hollahan demonstrates to her readers that once they understand how to adapt a store-bought pattern, they are well on their way to custom designing their own wardrobe. Interweave Press. More than 500 instructive illustrations. An accomplished fashion designer shows women who make their own garments how to improve on store-bought sewing patterns by adjusting the clothing item's length and other details to reflect personal taste and create a custom fit.

Chapters that follow offer detailed instruction in adapting and altering a store-bought pattern to suit individual tastes.


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Sew Many Dresses, Sew Little Time: The Ultimate Dressmaking Guide

Interweave Press. The book covers basic dress construction and altering techniques for women of all shapes and sizes. With her "choose-your-own-adventure" approach to sewing, Tanya Whelan offers an invaluable collection of patterns that empowers sewers to become designers. Potter Crafts. Interweave Press. Tanya gives readers clear instructions and easy-to-follow step-by-step diagrams that allow them to use the enclosed pattern pieces to create up to 219 fitted dresses, including simple strapless designs, sheaths, and halter gowns.

. The trick is a set of patterns for 6 skirts and 8 bodices that line up perfectly at the waist, plus an additional 4 sleeve styles and 4 necklines.


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Full-Figure Fashion: 24 Plus-Size Patterns for Every Day BurdaStyle Modern Sewing

Burdastyle modern sewing: full-figure Fashion includes 25+ of the best plus-size projects from the archives of BurdaStyle magazine. All of the must-have basics of a woman's wardrobe are covered in this collection--jackets, skirts, pants, blouses, and dresses. Potter Crafts. The projects are easy to intermediate and sizes range from 14 to 24.

Although this book is not meant to be a primer on sewing, including frequently used techniques, it includes a Burda 101 section that covers everything the reader needs to know to follow the sewing patterns, and a pattern insert with full-size pattern pieces. In addition to the 25+ Burda patterns, there are several variations.

Interweave Press. Sewists know the BurdaStyle name and its reputation for high-quality sewing patterns. Interweave Press. Sew stylish, flattering garments with Burda patterns!BurdaStyle is a legendary brand that focuses on the fashionable, high-style, "in" sewing marketplace. The designs include versatile separates as well as combinations that further expand the possibilities for the modern woman's wardrobe.

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Skirt-a-Day Sewing: Create 28 Skirts for a Unique Look Every Day

Suitable for beginners and expert sewers alike, Skirt-a-Day Sewing will inspire you to express your unique personal style as you stitch up great new pieces for your wardrobe. Interweave Press. In this fun guide, flared, nicole smith shows you how to draft a pattern for a custom fit and shape it into one of four basic silhouettes: wrap, straight, and high-waisted.

Potter Crafts. Storey publishing-Skirt-A-Day Sewing. Each skirt can then be easily redesigned into seven distinct looks — one for each day of the week. Interweave Press. Design and sew your own fabulously stylish skirts.


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The Sewing Book: Over 300 Step-by-Step Techniques

Potter Crafts. Storey publishing-Skirt-A-Day Sewing. Interweave Press. Interweave Press. Over 300 techniques that show you how to sew absolutely everything--from clothes to home decor--plus 10 stylish new projects and updated information on more than 100 tools and 50 fabrics, with a glossary of sewing terminology.

Whether you are sewing clothes for children and adults, and mending, tucks, fasteners, or doing alterations, making home decor, and pleats to hems, master every hand-sewing and machine-sewing technique for everything from darts, with close-up photographs and clear instructions to demystify even the trickiest techniques.

Choose from 15 fresh, stylish projects to practice your skills, explore in-depth coverage of more than 100 tools and 250 techniques, and browse a visual directory of more than 50 fabrics in The Sewing Book--the ultimate bible for beginners and seasoned stitchers alike.


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The Complete Photo Guide to Perfect Fitting

The fabric is manipulated to improve the fit, and then those specific changes are made to the pattern. Interweave Press. Storey publishing-Skirt-A-Day Sewing. Then follow fitting solutions on different body types. Potter Crafts. The result: patterns that fit perfectly!with the complete photo guide to perfect fitting, you'll learn:- the importance of a fitting axis and how to use it during a fitting- How to recognize fitting issues, such as drag lines and folds- How to manipulate fabric to solve common and unusual fitting problems- How to transfer the fitting changes to your pattern easily- Basic pattern-making skills to ensure accurate alterationsSee the fitting process from start to finish on basic garments, fitted on real people.

Here is the ultimate reference for fitting test garments and transferring accurate adjustments to patterns! No matter what size or shape you are, wearing garments that fit perfectly makes you look and feel better. Creative Publishing International. Rather than making commonly accepted changes to a commercial pattern, the method presented in this guide focuses on the way a test garment fits the body.

The lessons you learn will help you fit any body. Interweave Press.


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The Tunic Bible: One Pattern, Interchangeable Pieces, Ready-to-Wear Results!

Interweave Press. Voted #1 best woven top Pattern for 2017 by website PatternReview. Com. Storey publishing-Skirt-A-Day Sewing. From everyday casual to preppy chic, or glamorous, boho, you'll find the look that's right for you. Creative Publishing International. Full size tear-out pattern included. Sizes xs-xxl bust measurement 33" - 47.

5". Potter Crafts. C&t publishing. It's the only tunic pattern you'll ever need! A graded bodice pattern with alternate neck plackets, and sleeves provides many unique, collars, ready-to-wear fashions. Interweave Press. Well respected in the sewing industry for their pattern reviews and online garment challenges, Sarah Gunn and Julie Starr make the tunic accessible and exciting for those with basic sewing skills and beyond.

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Designing Clothes with the Flat Pattern Method: Customize Fitting Shells to Create Garments in Any Style

The principles and techniques taught are also easily transferable to designing children's clothes. By following extensive technique instruction in each of the three categories, twelve different garments are designed from each basic sloper and photographed on models so readers fully understand the process and the end result.

Thanks to designing clothes with the Flat Pattern Method, passionate sewers will be as skilled as Project Runway contestants in no time! Interweave Press. By using basic pattern blocks called slopers, Alm shows sewers how to design new shapes, style lines, and fashion details--creating patterns for nearly any piece of clothing they want to sew.

Interweave Press. Change the style and placement of the closures. The options are endless once sewers understand the basics of flat-pattern designing, which is explained in the book. Designing clothes with the Flat Pattern Method is divided into sections: skirts, tops, and pants. Creative Publishing International-Designing Clothes.

Creative Publishing International. Take a basic straight skirt pattern, for example, and convert it into any other skirt design. Try adjusting the waistline placement or convert it from waistband to waistline-facing. Learn how to customize your clothes--designing new pattern shapes, style lines, and fashion details with Sara Alm's easy-to-follow instruction!In Sara Alm's Designing Clothes with the Flat Pattern Method, sewers learn a technique that opens up myriad possibilities for making one-of-a-kind garments.




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