Learn how to Customize your clothes--Designing new Pattern shapes, Style lines, and fashion details with Sara Alm\'s easy-to-follow instruction In Sara Alm\'s Designing Clothes with the Flat Pattern Method , sewers learn a technique that opens up myriad possibilities for making one-of-a-kind garments.
Thanks to Designing Clothes with the Flat Pattern Method , passionate sewers will be as skilled as Project Runway contestants in no time.
By following extensive technique instruction in each of the three categories, twelve different Garments are designed from each basic sloper and photographed on models so readers fully understand the process and the end result.
The principles and techniques taught are also easily transferable to Designing children\'s clothes.
As soon as sewers know how to design from these three slopers, that knowledge is easily transferred to Designing dresses, shorts, jumpsuits, and outerwear.
While many of the same principles apply to each garment type, there are different techniques to take into account.
Designing Clothes with the Flat Pattern Method is divided into sections: skirts, tops, and pants.
The options are endless once sewers understand the basics of flat-Pattern designing, which is explained in the book.
Change the Style and placement of the closures.
Try adjusting the waistline placement or convert it from waistband to waistline-facing.
Change the hemline or the basic shape of a skirt from straight to A-line to full swing with multiple gores.
Take a basic straight skirt pattern, for example, and convert it into any other skirt design.
By using basic Pattern blocks called slopers, Alm shows sewers how to design new shapes, Style lines, and fashion details--creating patterns for nearly any piece of clothing they want to sew.
Learn how to Customize your clothes--Designing new Pattern shapes, Style lines, and fashion details with Sara Alm\'s easy-to-follow instruction In Sara Alm\'s Designing Clothes with the Flat Pattern Method , sewers learn a technique that opens up myriad possibilities for making one-of-a-kind garments
