The Dressmaking Book: A Step-By-Step Guide to Creating Original Clothes to Suit Your Style

The Dressmaking Book is the ultimate guide to creating a capsule wardrobe that flatters and expresses your personal style.

This comprehensive, easy-to-use dressmaking book covers all the essential skills and techniques you need to make timeless wardrobe staples and show-stopping outfits. It's a must-have for beginners and expert sewers alike. With introductory sections that cover all the key tools and materials needed for dressmaking, dedicated technique, pattern, and project chapters put the learning into practice, before rounding off with guidance on customisation.

The Dressmaking Book includes:

• Step-by-step instructions accompanied by clear, full-colour photography and illustrations
• Guidance on choosing the perfect fabrics
• Downloadable patterns that can be used to create multiple garments
• Over 80 techniques, including how to cut out a pattern, machine stitch, and hand stitch
• 20 projects including skirts, dresses, trousers, tops, and jackets

Alison Smith is a sewing expert and tutor. Her sewing school, the Alison Victoria School of Sewing, is the largest independent sewing school in England, and offers courses and workshops on all aspects of sewing. Alison regularly speaks at specialist sewing shows and has had projects and articles published in a variety of UK magazines. She is a regular contributor to Sewing World magazine, and appeared on the ITV television series Ladette to Lady teaching dressmaking skills. In 2013 Alison was awarded an MBE for services to sewing and corsetry.