The Complete Photo Guide to Clothing Construction - by Christine Haynes (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"The Complete Photo Guide to Clothing Construction" is a technique-based book that covers all the necessary skills for sewing clothes, including tops, dresses, pants, skirts, and outerwear--for women, men, and children.<BR><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b><i>The Complete Photo Guide to Clothing Construction</i> helps you master all of the techniques needed to sew clothes--including tops, dresses, pants, skirts, and even outerwear.</b> <p/>This technique-driven book follows the entire process of clothing construction, including a section on the <b>sewing machine and other tools/materials used</b>, information on <b>working with patterns and fitting</b>, laying out the pattern pieces, <b>cutting and marking</b>, and on through every step of construction to the final button. <b>Large, detailed photos</b> guide you from start to finish and help give you a visual basis for learning the skills. This comprehensive guide is a <b>long-lasting reference</b> for anyone who sews clothes. It fills in <b>all the technique details</b> not supplied by manufacturers of the clothing patterns that most sewers use for all of their projects. <p/><i>The Complete Photo Guide to Clothing Construction</i> explains the reasons behind the methods, warns of pitfalls to watch out for, and provides you with valuable tips that help you reach a satisfying, successful end with every project. <b>Examples show both men's and women's fashions as well as children's clothes</b>.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>A technique-focused, how-to book that will guide any sewer, novice or experienced, in completing a professional-looking garment. Seamster Haynes has developed a new style of teaching clothing construction, one that's not dependent on a specific pattern or style. Instead, she concentrates, first, on the basics, coding each photograph or illustration for easy reference--although, unfortunately, not all visuals are magnified well (such as fabric swatches, pattern booklets, and directions). After tools and patterns are addressed, from sewing machines to buttons and threads, the detailed step-by-step color photographs and captions arrive for almost every part of the process. Pinning and cutting fabric, always a critical first, are here pictured in ways and with methods that won't allow scissors to slip. The next three elements don't vary from that formula, providing crafters almost foolproof instructions for sewing zippers, making contour darts, and fashioning an elegantly scalloped hem, among other exercises. At the end of each chapter is a two-page color fold called Anatomy of a Garment, pointing via numbers to the clothing basics just discussed. - <i><b>Booklist</b></i></p><br><br><p>An experienced sewist, smart writer, and fabulous seamstress, Haynes has created a unique and helpful must-have manual in <i>The Complete Photo Guide to Clothing Construction</i>. Any and all sewing enthusiasts will benefit from having this manual on their shelves. - <i><b>Kaylee Pope, AllFreeSewing.com</b></i></p><br><br><p>The latest in Creative Publishing's Complete Photo Guide series (<i>The Complete Photo Guide to Sewing</i>) focuses on garment construction, a broad, often complex topic that includes everything from body measurements to fabric cutting to seam finishes. Haynes, who designs patterns for her own indie pattern line, divides the intricacies of garment construction into easily manageable steps that are organized in a logical manner from start to finish. Need to know what stay stitching looks like, or how to place and sew an invisible zipper? It's in this guide, along with clear instructions and photographs of each step. Spreads titled The Anatomy of a Garment appear throughout to put the lessons in context using actual garments. VERDICT A valuable reference for garment-making novices; the layout makes it easy to find the necessary information. -<i><b> Library Journal</b></i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Christine Haynes has been sewing since she was 10 years old, when she learned from her mother in small-town Michigan. She has a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and started her own line of vintage-inspired sewing patterns in 2011. Her first book, Chic & Simple Sewing, published by Potter Craft in 2009, led to a career teaching sewing, which she still does today in Los Angeles and at conferences like the Craftcation Conference (2011-2014) and the American Sewing Guild Conference (2012). Christine's work has been seen in many sewing magazines and press outlets such as The New York Times, Threads Magazine, Sew News Magazine, The New York Post, Sew Stylish Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, Martha Stewart's Radio Channel, and NBC's Today Show, and Christine was a guest on season two of PBS' Sew It All. She also teaches her 1960's inspired Sassy Librarian Blouse on-line at Craftsy and contributes to the Craftsy blog. Visit Christine's website www.ChristineHaynes.com or popular blog, City Stitching, www.ChristineHaynes.Blogspot.com.
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