How to Make Sewing Patterns solves the mysteries of pattern drafting with easy, step-by-step instructions and clear line drawings that show how to create custom-fit garments in a wide range of designs. -- Christian Science Monitor.
He shows that drafting is easy if each step is clearly related to the final outcome and if the drafter visualizes what he or she is doing. -- Whole Earth Catalog Donald Mccunn leads the beginning seamstress or the advanced into pattern drafting via a thorough introduction.
The drawings are the simplest line drawings possible but executed with concise purpose. -- Library Journal The most readable pattern drafting book I\'ve found.
A do-it-yourself text in which lessons build upon one another, this book provides detailed guides to creating patterns. -- Threads Magazine McCunn\'s book dispels the mysteries of pattern drafting, an area which was once the province of the couturier.
He even gives detailed instructions on how to measure and fit yourself.
Text, drawings, and photos of the human body from every angle illustrate the various interrelated contours and just how a pattern accommodates them.
The section on drafting a sloper contains excellent explanations of the various body contours, measuring, and fitting.
There are many helpful tips throughout the book, some quite clever and unexpected.
Beyond the impressive range of material in How to Make Sewing Patterns is the author\'s obvious concern that readers understand what they are doing and why. --Author of 10 Sewing books, a syndicated columnist, --and host of HGTV\'s Sew Perfect. --Sandra Betzina, the power behind Power Sewing.
I especially liked the exacting instructions on taking measurements on the body and the solution for side seams which are not perpendicular to the floor.
Whether or not you have taken pattern drafting in a class, this book is a good reference in a very readable style.
Don Mccunn has certainly mastered pattern drafting and fitting a wide range of bodies.
The book\'s detailed instructions on measuring and fitting include do-it-yourself photographs as well as directions for creating custom dress forms.
How to Make Sewing Patterns solves the mysteries of pattern drafting with easy, step-by-step instructions and clear line drawings that show how to create custom-fit garments in a wide range of designs
