Dress Pattern Making Book' title='Dress Pattern Making Book' />Dress Design Draping and Flat Pattern Making Marion Strong Hillhouse Books. If you can somehow get past the jaw dropping draped designs of the late 4. I come back to it again and again to gaze upon the intricately draped beauties of the late 4. I believe that was never duplicated as it was done then. It was a style period I feel, that upended the boring utilitarianism of the earlier 4. This book offers chapters on basic blouses and skirts, showing both a draped and a flat pattern method of creating. The sleeve chapter is such a wealth of inspiration, its hard to choose just one to attempt My personal favorite is in the chapter entitled Sources of Design where some astounding draped garments are pictured with their corresponding flat pattern layout. Therein lies a dress having deep cowl folds produced by placing the hip seams on the bias. WOW Some of these designs, although all have a flat pattern diagram, are not for the faint hearted. Fitting encompasses yet another chapter, showing examples of bad fitgood fitproblem solved. There is also a chapter on collars and later, sources of design showing mostly whole garments. For the fashion historianafficionado, this is an invaluable book that will please and inspireDress Me Bunny is a modified version of my Valentine Bear. I decided to put it all in one pattern for you then you can make the bunny without having to flip back and. Marilyn and Elinor love dressing up. And they recently started making their own clothes because they love to dress up so much. They also love to mix and match colors. BUY NOW If youve never purchased a PDF pattern from me before, please read through my purchasing and printing instructions HERE. ThanksDear Maddie Pattern Making Books Tools. I have an arsenal of pattern making books and tools. A living room doesnt exist in my apartment because a sewing studio has replaced it. Dress Pattern Making Book' title='Dress Pattern Making Book' />In my silverware drawer and next to my spoons and forks are scissors and curved rulers. In the dividers that hold my utensils are also seam rippers and awls. My bookshelf is not full of fashion magazines or light summer reading but textbooks on fitting, pattern making, and construction. And hanging next to my coats in my closet are fabrics upon fabrics. I have all these tools at my fingertips, and theyre all great resources, but if I was cast to an abandoned island for the rest of my life, lets say for breaking a coveted sewing rules like pressing the right side of the fabric without a press cloth, I would have no problem choosing a few essential items. These items, mostly books and tools, would keep me sane for the rest of my life. Icare Data Recovery Software Free Download Torrent. The only other thing I would need would be a hair dryer. Originally published in 1. I love this book. Love, love. It is geared towards both students and professions it not only shows how to draft and grade a basic bodice, skirt, and pant but also how to transform the pattern into other designs. Most modern day textbooks give a few pattern variations but this one gives tons. Tons If I had to guess, one hundred plus variations are provided. And whats neat is that you learn about silhouettes that are now dated but were once cool pinafores, chemises, push up sleeves, winged sleeves, etc. This is the classic pattern making, tailoring, and dressmaking textbook. It is used for many introduction to pattern making classes and many technical designers and pattern makers keep it at their disposal. When I started as an Assistant Technical Designer, I was required to make a sloper. Because the industry sends their blocksslopers to manufactures to create patterns for their design, it was important that I knew how to create one. I used this book to draft my bodice and skirt slopers as well as fit it. It has been published for many years and its important what year you buy. The newer versions have eliminated or changed important information. Skirt Week is a fun packed series full of skirt making tutorials, contests and prizes to get you motivated to sew up some skirts for summer. And who doesnt love. The version that I used to draft my sloper and develop my tutorials was from 1. This book is severly outdated 1. It shows common fitting errors on all types of garments shirts, pants, jackets and how to correct the pattern. Whats great is that it uses photos and not sketches to show the fit issues and how to fix it. This book gets you familiar with the production side of pattern making, familiarizing readers with procedures and terms used within the industry. It contains standard measurements for sizes, how to measure garments flat, and grade rules for alpha and numeric sizes. To be honest, theres not a lot of information in it but its a great resource for me when Im grading a pattern or when I have a measurement questionDoes a rise grade the same for all sizes or does it jump like other width grades This books answers questions like that. Once you understand the basics of pattern making, this book will be a fun read. Vinyl Tent Repair Patch. You probably wont make any of the patterns but you will be amazed at how a basic pattern can be manipulated to create crazy designs. At the request of one of my favorite commenters, Kenneth King suggested this book seriously scroll down and read his comment. According to him, It was the gold standard, the only book my teacher who trained in Paris at the Ecole Guerre Lavigne approved of. Absolutely amazing. I couldnt agree more Kenneth. Fortunate for  you, the blog The Perfect Nose offered this book as one of its Friday Freebies. La Pelicula Patch Adams. Click here to get your own copy and be sure to follow her directions if youre going to post it on your blog. For pattern making, there are only a couple of tools that I need and constantly use a straight ruler, an L square, a curved ruler this one and this one, French curves, paper, pencils, and an eraser. There are a lot more pattern making supplies that make drafting and manipulating pattern easier, such as a cutting board, but you can definitely improvise. Seamstresses are great at innovating, being handy, and coming up with solutions when you dont have tools at your disposal.