Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Supporting your high street Find out how »
Designing Clothes with the Flat Pattern Method : Customize Fitting Shells to Create Garments in Any Style, Paperback / softback Book

Designing Clothes with the Flat Pattern Method : Customize Fitting Shells to Create Garments in Any Style Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours

Description

Learn how to customize your clothes--designing new pattern shapes, style lines, and fashion details with Sara Alm's easy-to-follow instruction!In Sara Alm's  Designing Clothes with the Flat Pattern Method, sewers learn a technique that opens up myriad possibilities for making one-of-a-kind garments.

By using basic pattern blocks called slopers, Alm shows sewers how to design new shapes, style lines, and fashion details--creating patterns for nearly any piece of clothing they want to sew.

Take a basic straight skirt pattern, for example, and convert it into any other skirt design.

Change the hemline or the basic shape of a skirt from straight to A-line to full swing with multiple gores.

Try adjusting the waistline placement or convert it from waistband to waistline-facing.

Change the style and placement of the closures. The options are endless once sewers understand the basics of flat-pattern designing, which is explained in the book. Designing Clothes with the Flat Pattern Method  is divided into sections: skirts, tops, and pants.

While many of the same principles apply to each garment type, there are different techniques to take into account.

As soon as sewers know how to design from these three slopers, that knowledge is easily transferred to designing dresses, shorts, jumpsuits, and outerwear.

The principles and techniques taught are also easily transferable to designing children's clothes.

By following extensive technique instruction in each of the three categories, twelve different garments are designed from each basic sloper and photographed on models so readers fully understand the process and the end result. Thanks to  Designing Clothes with the Flat Pattern Method, passionate sewers will be as skilled as  Project Runway  contestants in no time!

Information

Other Formats

Save 9%

£18.99

£17.15

Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
Add to Basket
Sign in to add to wishlist
 
Free Home Delivery

on all orders

 
Pick up orders

from local bookshops

Information