Shape to Style – Make Your Own Clothes Without Buying Patterns

Make your own clothes from simple shapes without buying patterns – 20 styles you can make for women and children.

Shape to Style (Updated Edition) is for all those dressmakers who have ever dreamt of cutting their own patterns. There are twenty, easy-to-make, fashionable designs which are all cut from basic shapes – the rectangle, the triangle, the circle and the square. Many of the styles don’t even need a pattern – they can be cut simply by folding the fabric.

Martin Shoben advises on the best and most suitable fabrics to choose, how to fold and cut the fabric and how to sew up each garment. Styles are graded according to difficulty, so the book can be used by the most experienced dressmaker and the beginner. Cut out the need to buy patterns, save money and get many hours of pleasure with Shape to Style.

An exciting book of patterns cut from simple shapes!

Shape to Style

Styles include:

1. Loose overshirt
2. Basic kimono
3. Neck detail overshirt
4. V-neck t-shirt
5. Kaftan dress
6. Full sleeved dress
7. Jersey blouse
8. Tunic dress
9. Draped tube dress
10. Strappy tube dress
11. Kaftan
12. Day dress
13. Cowl neck blouse
14. Full circle skirt
15. Half circle skirt
16. A-line skirt
17. Harem trousers
18. Spiral skirt
19. Tablecloth skirt
20. Gathered dirndl

For an example of the clear and easy-to-follow layout of the book, have a look at Style 9 – the Draped Tube Dress: