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Jackets for Real People
Tailoring Made Easy
Series: Sewing for Real People series
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An ideal resource for beginners and intermediate sewers interested in tailoring techniques, those wishing to create customised, professional-looking jackets, and enthusiasts of sewing and garment construction seeking practical, detailed guidance.
Featuring techniques that embrace fusible interfacing and an all-machine-sewn lining technique used in ready-to-wear, this book presents more than 700 photos and illustrations accompanying instructions on patterns and fabrics, proper cutting and marking, methods for pressing and seam finishing, and how-tos that help ensure a perfect fit.
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This new edition of a popular tailoring guide is double in size, adds colour photography, and features new and speedier techniques that embrace fusible interfacing and an all-machine-sewn lining technique used in ready-to-wear.
More than 700 photos and illustrations accompany instructions detailed enough to allow a beginner who has never taken a sewing class to glide through chapters on patterns and fabrics, proper cutting and marking, methods for pressing and seam finishing, and how-tos that ensure a perfect fit.
The choice and tailoring of collars, buttonholes, pockets, and mitered back vents are shown to create individuality and flair, while special sections provide information about stripes and plaids, men's jackets, finishing touches, and helpful tools and notions.
Explore the innovative approaches in Jackets for Real People by Susan Neall, Marta Alto, and Pati Palmer, and enhance your sewing skills with expert guidance and comprehensive resources.
Series: Sewing for Real People series
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Jackets for Real People
This new edition of a popular tailoring guide is double in size, adds colour photography, and features new and speedier techniques that embrace fusible interfacing and an all-machine-sewn lining technique used in ready-to-wear. More than 700 photos and illustrations accompany instructions detailed enough to allow a beginner who has never taken a sewing class to glide through chapters on patterns...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
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From tissue-fitting pioneers Pati Palmer and Marta Alto comes a new book whose title says it all: The Palmer/Pletsch Complete Guide to Fitting: Sew Great Clothes for Every Body! Fit Any Fashion Pattern. It's been 20 years since their last book about fitting and altering sewing patterns, Fit for Real People. For Palmer and Alto, that means 20 more years...Paperback$7499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Book Details
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ISBN: 9780935278668
Publisher: Palmer-Pletsch Associates
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 September 2006
Country: United States
Imprint: Palmer-Pletsch Associates
Edition: Fourth Edition, Fourth edition
Illustration: Illustrations
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 10.0mm
Width: 215.0mm
Height: 279.0mm
Weight: 476g
Pages: 128
About the Author
Marta Alto is a teacher, writer, and researcher at Palmer/Pletsch, the author of 21st Century Sewing, and the coauthor of The Serger Idea Book and Sewing Ultrasuede. Pati Palmer is the CEO of Palmer/Pletsch Publishing, a designer and consultant for the McCall Pattern Company, and a coauthor of Sewing with Sergers. They are the coauthors of Fit for Real People, Jackets for Real People, and Pants for Real People. They both live in Portland, Oregon. Susan Neall is the director of Palmer/Pletsch education in Australia. She is the cofounder of the Australian Sewing Guild, the founder of the needlecraft magazine Australian Stitches, and a writer and consultant for Better Homes and Gardens and Family Circle. Pati Palmer is the CEO of Palmer/Pletsch Publishing and a designer and consultant for the McCall Pattern Company.
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