Good Housekeeping. Home Dressmaking. A Complete Step-By-Step Guide to Successful Sewing.

A handbook of sewing processes and a basic course in dressmaking, it shows you how to: Plan your clothes to suit yourself - and your lifestyle. Choose a pattern that does the most for your figure. Do all the things that it's usually assumed you already know, from sewing on a button to overcasting. Cope with the tricky points, from collars to sleeves to linings, to adapting patters. Avoid the usual amateur's pitfalls, such as uneven stitching and wavy hemlines. Both metric and imperial mesaurements are give throughout, to avoid the tiresomeness of consulting a conversion chart. Illustrated. 187 pp.