The Colette Sewing Handbook: Inspired Styles and Classic Techniques for the New Seamstress

Five simple fundamentals can help you perfect any sewing project: a thoughtful plan, a precise pattern, a fantastic fit, a beautiful fabric, and a fine finish. With these five core ideas, The Colette Sewing Handbook shows you how to start sewing the wardrobe of your dreams.

Includes five beautiful patterns for modern classic pieces, including a scalloped-hem skirt, flutter-sleeve blouse, sweetheart neck sheath dress, asymmetrical flounce dress, and a lined dress with gathered sleeves. Each project will help you put the fundamentals into practice as you sew.

• Approachable and easy to follow. Instead of a big, confusing catalog of sewing techniques, you'll build your knowledge gradually around the five simple fundamentals. A section of basic sewing lessons means you'll never feel lost.

• Hands-on learning. Start improving your skills immediately by applying each of the five principles of the book to a beautiful project, included in the book.

• Feed your creativity. Have more fun designing sewing projects for your personal style, and create the things you'll actually love to wear!

• Feel more confident. Gain the know-how to work with any sewing pattern out there.

• Look great in what you make. Become your own custom seamstress and hand-tailor clothes that fit you the way you want.

• Get inspired by fabric. Expand your creative palette and get the look you want by choosing the best fabrics for your projects.

• Perfect the details. Make clothes you can be proud of with beautiful finishing techniques.

Colette Patterns is known for timeless design and exceptionally clear instruction. This book from designer Sarai Mitnick guides you gradually and painlessly to becoming a better seamstress. Get inspired, feel confident, and make beautiful clothing you'll be proud to wear!

Sarai Mitnick is the founder and designer behind Colette Patterns, a boutique sewing pattern company with a vintage-modern twist. Her patterns have become known not just for beautifully detailed design, but for having some of the best instruction on the market. A lover of vintage styles and beautiful detail, Sarai founded Colette Patterns when she discovered a lack of modern sewing patterns for design-oriented sewers, and it has been growing by leaps and bounds ever since. Her patterns have appeared in Bust magazine, Sew Hip, and Threads, and she has written for Design Sponge, Modern Seamster magazine, and Etsy. She also manages the popular Coletterie sewing blog. Sarai Mitnick lives in Portland, OR.