Good Housekeeping Home Dressmaking. This item is unavailable.Good Housekeeping Home Dressmaking

A complete step-by-step guide to successful sewing. Good Housekeeping Home Dressmaking is written so simply and illustrated so fully that it will give you complete confidence. Good Housekeeping's fashion experts give you all the detailed technical know-how to achieve a really professional finish so you can acquire a cupboardful of clothes that really fit and flatter you. At the same time 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 patterns, Avoid the usual amateur's pitfalls, such as uneven stitching and wavy hemlines. Both metric and imperial measurements are given throughout, to avoid the tiresomeness of consulting a conversion chart.