Pattern-Free Fashions: 12 Easy Styles to Sew, Serge, Fuse (Star Wear) - Softcover

Cole, Mary Lee Trees

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9780801984976: Pattern-Free Fashions: 12 Easy Styles to Sew, Serge, Fuse (Star Wear)

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ISBN 10: 0801984971 ISBN 13: 9780801984976

Publisher: UNKNO, 1995

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If you enjoy inventing your own styles instead of just working off store-bought patterns, you know how rewarding it can be to see your designs realized. But if you've ever tried to sew without a pattern by just making it up as you go along, you also know how frustrating it can be. This book aims to solve that dilemma by explaining 12 simple styles that yield nice-looking tops, skirts, dresses, robes, vests, pants, and wraps, with information on calculating yardage, cutting, ensuring proper fit, and creating variations. --Amy Handy

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Elegant caftans, trimmed capes, harem pants -- and can be made in minutes without patterns. Pattern-Free Fashions provides complete instructions for making 12 art-to-wear garments. Each chapter features a simple, stunning garment and is packed with user-friendly information including: tips for planning with inspiring design suggestions; various for men, women and children, sized small to generous; what to buy with measurement and fabric requirement charts; tools and notions to use for serging, sewing, and fusing; how to create garment shapes and cut fabric; step-by-step instructions for making and shaping to individual bodies; and finishing touches and embellishments. Pattern-Free Fashions gives easy-to-follow guidelines for making garments without patterns, illustrates fun techniques for embellishing, and shows how to use and combine fusible tapes and glues with serging and sewing. -- Midwest Book Review

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