Teach Yourself Stitch Craft and Dressmaking: Dressmaking from A-Z: Volume I - Pre-Stitching and Drafting Information, Tips and Techniques
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Basic Materials
--Sewing Machine
--Rulers and Scales
--Cutting Implements
Learning about the Metric System
Preparation of Fabric and Shrinking
--Common Sewing Terms
--Grain
--Selvage
--Recognizing Grain
--Bias
--Nap
--Washable Fabric
--Non – Washable Fabric
--Estimating the Fabric Quantity
--Interfacings
Hand Basting on Interfacing
--Basting stitches
--Even Basting
--Uneven Basting
--Machine Basting
Single-layer fabric
--Proper Cutting Out Of the Fabric
--Folding the Fabric – two layers
--Folding the fabric – 4 layers
--Results of Proper and Incorrect Folding
--Folding the Material to Make 8 Layers
--Preparing Your Layout
--Pinning Your Cloth
--Doing the Cutting
Seams Darts and Gussets
--Placement of Darts
--Blouses and Tops
--Skirts
--Dresses
Appendix
Author Bio
Publisher
Introduction
Making your own clothes is one of the most interesting of skills that you can learn. Down the ages, people have learned how to design clothes through trial and error, with new fashion innovations being used as accessories in order to hold the clothes to the body. These included belts and brooches, which held tartans, cloaks, skirts, and other body coverings in place.
As time went by, people began to look for more and more ways in which clothes could be worn fitting and protecting the form while looking elegant at the same time.
This book is going to tell you all about how you can begin tailoring, by making up your own patterns.
You can get plenty of patterns ready-made, which can be cut out or are precut and all you have to do is pin them onto the cloth, and cut it out. According to your requirements, these patterns can be modified by adding or subtracting, and once you know the basics of drafting, you are going to understand exactly what needs to be done, when you see a pattern, and recognize the different parts of it.
You are going to learn all about pattern drafting, and dressmaking in further volumes, of the series, and this is going to be an extensive project, somewhat like an encyclopedia about all the information of which you could think about dressmaking, simple stitch craft, sewing, pattern designing, and everything else, which has to do with tailoring.
But first, before you think about tailoring, you need to have some basic supplies with you. These are essential in order to give your clothes a professional look, or at least to show that you are serious about tailoring!
You can add to these supplies, as time goes by, and you will get more skilled and enthusiastic about how you intend to draft clothes before you cut them out on cloth.
You may want to do some practice cutting sessions on useless pieces of cloth, so that even if you manage to pin the wrong portions together and stitch them together without even finding out what happened during the pinning and sewing process, you can just rip the seams open with the seam ripper, and begin fresh!
As I did not want to waste lots of cloth, because I have a bit of problem visualizing the end product, – I should have started young – I did my cutting out on sheets of newspaper.
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Teach Yourself Stitch Craft and Dressmaking - Dueep Jyot Singh
Teach Yourself Stitch Craft and Dressmaking
Dressmaking from A-Z: Volume I
Pre-Stitching and Drafting Information, Tips and Techniques
Dueep Jyot Singh
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Basic Materials
--Sewing Machine
--Rulers and Scales
--Cutting Implements
Learning about the Metric System
Preparation of Fabric and Shrinking
--Common Sewing Terms
--Grain
--Selvage
--Recognizing Grain
--Bias
--Nap
--Washable Fabric
--Non – Washable Fabric
--Estimating the Fabric Quantity
--Interfacings
Hand Basting on Interfacing
--Basting stitches
--Even Basting
--Uneven Basting
--Machine Basting
Single-layer fabric
--Proper Cutting Out Of the Fabric
--Folding the Fabric – two layers
--Folding the fabric – 4 layers
--Results of Proper and Incorrect Folding
--Folding the Material to Make 8 Layers
--Preparing Your Layout
--Pinning Your Cloth
--Doing the Cutting
Seams Darts and Gussets
--Placement of Darts
--Blouses and Tops
--Skirts
--Dresses
Appendix
Author Bio
Publisher
Introduction
Making your own clothes is one of the most interesting of skills that you can learn. Down the ages, people have learned how to design clothes through trial and error, with new fashion innovations being used as accessories in order to hold the clothes to the body. These included belts and brooches, which held tartans, cloaks, skirts, and other body coverings in place.
As time went by, people began to