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Debbie Shore's Sewing Room Secrets: Essential Skills for Dressmakers

Top Tips and Techniques for Successful Sewing
By Debbie Shore
Series: Debbie Shore’s Sewing Room Secrets
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Debbie Shore's Sewing Room Secrets: Essential Skills for Dressmakers is a practical guide filled with expert tips and techniques for both beginner and experienced dressmakers. The book dives into essential sewing skills, providing detailed instructions and illustrations to help enhance your dressmaking projects. It serves as a valuable resource for achieving professional results while enjoying the creative process of sewing.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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This book may appeal to you if you love diving into the world of dressmaking with clarity and enthusiasm. It's perfect for unleashing your creativity and enhancing your skills through easy-to-follow instructions and practical tips shared by an experienced expert. Ideal for both beginners and seasoned sewers, it offers invaluable insights to elevate your garment-making process.

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Debbie Shore's Sewing Room Secrets: Essential Skills for Dressmakers

Packed with key skills and friendly know-how, this essential guide is ideal for anyone taking their first steps into dressmaking.

The only intro dress making book you'll ever need!

Book Hero Magic formatted this description to make it easier to read. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! Description

Packed with key skills and friendly know-how, this essential guide is ideal for anyone taking their first steps into dressmaking.

The latest title in Debbie Shore's Sewing Room Secrets series, this essential guide is packed with key skills and friendly know-how, making it perfect for beginners in dressmaking. It covers important basics such as: how to read and adjust a pattern, how to choose, mark and cut fabric, how to add zips, pockets, and buttons, how to adapt old, misshapen, or oversized garments, and how to perform basic mending—all demonstrated step-by-step.

This book serves as a toolkit designed to equip you with all the dressmaking skills you need. It contains ten inventive projects that allow you to practice using your own pre-loved clothes, providing you with all the knowledge necessary to make your own clothes from scratch using a pattern of your choice.

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Debbie Shore's Sewing Room Secrets: Essential Skills for Dressmakers is well-regarded for being accessible to both beginners and advanced sewists, with clear, jargon-free instructions. The book offers practical tips and visual aids, making it easy to follow, while also promoting sustainability by encouraging upcycling and repurposing old garments. It introduces the basics of tool and material selection, garment fitting, and includes a range of projects aimed at modern dressmaking. Reviewers appreciate its blend of technical guidance and environmentally conscious crafting.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781782217473

Publisher: Search Press Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 21 February 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Search Press Ltd

Illustration: 400 Illustrations, color

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 7.0mm

Width: 204.0mm

Height: 260.0mm

Weight: 362g

Pages: 96

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About the Author

Debbie Shore is a best-selling and award-winning author. She began her career as a children's television presenter and since then has appeared regularly as an actress in various popular dramas and as a presenter on shopping channels. Debbie has developed her own range of fabrics, designed her own patterns, writes for several popular sewing magazine and has written over 20 books for Search Press with several more underway. She is the winner of Craft Influencer of the Year 2020 in the Craft Business Awards, and Social Media Influencer of the Year 2019 in the British Sewing Awards. Debbie has over 230,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel, which has over 30 million views. In 2018, Debbie launched her Half Yard Sewing Club, a monthly subscription service based on the megaselling Half Yard (TM) series, and won the 2019 IPG Digital Publishing Award. For more details about the club visit www.halfyardsewingclub.com. Debbie lives in Lincolnshire, UK. Visit her website www.debbieshoresewing.com.

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