Sewing made easy

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SEWING
MADE
EASY
DOROTHYSARA
With 1,000 step-by-step illustrations
Now more than ever, sewing in the home is easier, quicker and often even a better way to make both your clothes and your home reflect your own distinctive and original ideas. With the rising costs of fashions-both for yourself and your home-sewing at home is now practically a must. And Sewing Made Easy is just the book to help you on your way.
Beginner Detailed yet easy-to-follow instructive material makes it easy for you to work along with any pattern you select and master all the fundamental steps in sewing, altering, or restyling a garment.
Experienced Sewer The experienced sewer will welcome the scores of short cuts and new tips and techniques that give that custom look to your sewing - whether it's a dress or a slipcover.
Illustrations Over 400 new or redrawn illustrations have been included to take you through the pertinent steps of how to understand, use, and alter your pattern to suit your figure.... Tovább

Fülszöveg

SEWING
MADE
EASY
DOROTHYSARA
With 1,000 step-by-step illustrations
Now more than ever, sewing in the home is easier, quicker and often even a better way to make both your clothes and your home reflect your own distinctive and original ideas. With the rising costs of fashions-both for yourself and your home-sewing at home is now practically a must. And Sewing Made Easy is just the book to help you on your way.
Beginner Detailed yet easy-to-follow instructive material makes it easy for you to work along with any pattern you select and master all the fundamental steps in sewing, altering, or restyling a garment.
Experienced Sewer The experienced sewer will welcome the scores of short cuts and new tips and techniques that give that custom look to your sewing - whether it's a dress or a slipcover.
Illustrations Over 400 new or redrawn illustrations have been included to take you through the pertinent steps of how to understand, use, and alter your pattern to suit your figure. Special adjustments that
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may have to be made in a number of areas -bodice, shoulder line, neckline, sleeve, waist, bust-are carefully explained, as well as the tailoring steps to make pants fit correctly.
New Material New in this edition is a fine chapter on sewing for men and boys. There is also supplementary material on sewing with synthetic fibers and working with leather, sheer fabrics, and fur-like fabrics. A special section on recycling your clothes-restyling and creating new garments from old ones - is especially timely, helpful, and money-saving.
Complete Home Sewing Library Chapters on sewing children's clothes, accessories and gifts to make, and sewing for the home contribute to making Sewing Made Easy a complete sewing library in one volume, a book both comprehensive and indispensable for any woman who sews or is anxious to learn.
All dimensions in this book are given in yards or inches along with the metric equivalents.
The late Dorothy Sara was an experienced and knowledgeable writer of how-to books. Irene Gora, author of popular booklets and magazines articles on sewing, is an instructor in the School of Home Economics at the University of Vermont and is associated with the McCall Pattern Company. Vissza