New Book Bundle!

Featuring our two latest fashion pattern cutting books, this bundle offers a 15% reduction on the list price!

AND FOR A LIMITED TIME WE WILL ADD ONE OF OUR BEST SELLING BUTTON RULES FOR FREE

For £39.00!

Book One – Pattern Cutting from Made Up Garments

Techniques for De-constructing, Restyling, Adapting and Improving manufactured clothing

This book contains much more than pattern making techniques. It reveals the secrets of fabric usage and pattern placement to give the garment a real professional look.

Wiro Bound and lays flat for easy use in your workroom

If you want to re create and improve a pattern from an existing garment or have simply lost a segment of a sample you have made – this book is for you!

This book contains much more than pattern making techniques. It reveals the secrets of fabric usage and pattern placement to give your garment a real professional look

Contents

• Copying techniques for clothes with and without darts
• Identifying and reproducing darts and seams
• Garment deconstruction
• Pattern Making and style adaptation
• Use of stripes and floral fabrics
• Design ideas for shirts And jeans
• Sewing techniques for jeans and zips

Book Two – Shape to Style – Pattern Cutting from Simple Shapes

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.

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