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"Skills and techniques for the fashion-minded sewist! Award-winning designer and stylist Joi Mahon shares her love of sewing and fashion design in Designer Joi's Fashion Sewing Workshop. Whether you're new to sewing or want to sharpen your skills, you'll find solid foundational information for learning and mastering sewing techniques including seaming, draping, measuring, making a pattern and more. Throughout the book, you'll find fun, hands-on...

Learn to draft and cut patterns for women's clothing from a period spanning 400 years of history., from 1535 to 1900, including the key style elements from each era, from farthingales to crinolines, ruffs to leg o'mutton sleeves. With this ... book you can draw on a library of basic patterns to create perfectly fitted bodices, sleeves, skirts, jackets, and much more, and the author's ... drafting method ensures that the patterns can be adapted to...

"Demonstrates how 18 core techniques, such as darts, inserts, twists and folds, can be used to create beautiful garment designs or adapt existing patterns"--