Sew Your Own Wardrobe

More Than 80 Techniques

Ebook
On sale Feb 09, 2021 | 304 Pages | 9780744045581

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Tailor-make your wardrobe with this essential dressmaking e-guide.

Discover everything you need to know to design, create, and customize your clothes. Guiding you through every stage of clothes-making in a clear, easy-to-understand way, Sew Your Own Wardrobe shows you how to make timeless wardrobe staples that can be easily adapted to suit your style.

Choose the perfect fabrics for any project, try your hand at a range of machine-sewing techniques, and put your new-found knowledge to use with 13 downloadable patterns that can be adapted to create more than 30 stylish garments.

With step-by-step e-guides and patterns to make classic dresses, skirts, tops, trousers, and jackets, alongside ideas for refreshing and reinventing your old clothes, Sew Your Own Wardrobe has everything you need to ditch fast fashion and create stunning, original clothes to suit your style.
Alison Smith is an editor at a weekly New England newspaper. She has been a teacher and head of a children's day-care center for many years. She lives in Rhode Island. View titles by Alison Smith

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Tailor-make your wardrobe with this essential dressmaking e-guide.

Discover everything you need to know to design, create, and customize your clothes. Guiding you through every stage of clothes-making in a clear, easy-to-understand way, Sew Your Own Wardrobe shows you how to make timeless wardrobe staples that can be easily adapted to suit your style.

Choose the perfect fabrics for any project, try your hand at a range of machine-sewing techniques, and put your new-found knowledge to use with 13 downloadable patterns that can be adapted to create more than 30 stylish garments.

With step-by-step e-guides and patterns to make classic dresses, skirts, tops, trousers, and jackets, alongside ideas for refreshing and reinventing your old clothes, Sew Your Own Wardrobe has everything you need to ditch fast fashion and create stunning, original clothes to suit your style.

Author

Alison Smith is an editor at a weekly New England newspaper. She has been a teacher and head of a children's day-care center for many years. She lives in Rhode Island. View titles by Alison Smith

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