Vogue Butterick S Designer Sewing Techniques

Inspired by the PBS-TV series "Sewing Today", this guide shows how to add professional details to home-sewn garments to achieve an authentic "designer look". Lavishly illustrated, the book profiles top designers such as Calvin Klein, Donna Karan, and others, revealing sewing techniques that make their clothes extraordinary.

A sourcebook for the home sewer contains more than 500 fundamental techniques for altering or repairing garments, using patterns, and creating your own designs

Provides quick access to the most frequently used and popular sewing procedures found in Vogue and Butterick patterns.

Fashionable, professional-looking clothis is a pleasure to sew and a joy to wear. Let Vogue Sewing help you to achieve it by guiding you through every constructino basic and custom touch. This book covers everything today's sewer needs to know, whether beginner or advanced, amateur or professional. Complementing the text are 56 pages of new full-color photographs and more than 1800 line drawings that clearly illustrate every fashion and construction point.

"If you want to make a jacket with the impeccable look of Chanel, this is the book to have. The Couture Cardigan Jacket presents sewing methods Claire Shaeffer developed based on her knowledge of haute couture construction and meticulous research studying original Chanels in museum archives and her own collection. Via the DVD, Shaeffer instructs readers in essential techniques such as cutting and shaping the jacket sections, princess seaming, quilting, making the 3-piece sleeve, adding the chain weight, creating the double buttonhole, and more. Where there is a trick or shortcut for an operation (without lowering the quality) Shaeffer demonstrates it, along with a host of sewing methods discovered via careful and meticulous study of Chanel originals. The package is a perfect mix of instruction and insight into the complex design-details that make a Chanel a Chanel"--

Sheets of patterns are in an envelope inside the front cover, each sheet is doubled sided.