Illustrated Guide to Advanced Dressmaking & Alteration - Catherine Morris - Bog

Learn to Make & Alter Dresses, Skirts, and Shirts, Slacks Add Pockets, Frills, Buttons, Zippers & So Much More
Look in your closet, how many dresses, skirts, slack, and shirts are there that you or your significant other can't wear anymore either because they are too big or too small? How about that old favorite dress or slacks with a broken zipper, buttons or hooks? Do you have a dress you wish there were little frills on the front of it? Or that shirt, wish it had a pocket? Let me show you how easily you can get all of these done in no time, just follow my instruction and look at the image.
I have been sewing for over 21 years now. I have taught dressmaking to alternation in various setting for the last eleven years. I designed this guide for anyone who wants to learn alteration of any and all wearables both for women and men. You DO NOT need to be a master in sewing to get started, I promise you. Just follow the steps and watch the images I shared in this guide, and you will be on your way in no time.
This Illustrated Guide to Advanced Dressmaking & Alteration Book is a Two-Part Guide. In the first part of I show you all the advanced steps and inner workings of custom dressmaking. In the second part, I show you how to alter many types of garments in a few simple steps.
Here is a Glimpse of What I Shared in This Book:

Explanation of all Garment Components
How to Control Fullness
Darts & Dart Manipulation MethodsWhat & How to Make Various Types of PleatsWhat & How to Make Perfect GathersWhat is Shirring & How to Shirr Fabric the Proper WayWhat & How to Make Proper SmockingHow to Make 6 Types of SleevesHow to Make Proper Sleeve/Bodice CombinationHow to Develop Sleeve PatternsHow to Make & Attach all 5 Popular types of PocketsHow to Make all 11 Types of Popular Dress NecklinesHow to Make Various Types of CollarsHow to Make 3 types of Yokes
How to Make 3 Types of CuffsHow to Make 4 Types of WaistbandsHow to Pick & Attach the Proper Fasteners (Buttons, Hooks, Zippers & Velcro)How to add PocketsHow to add Cuffs & CollarsHow to Change a Knife Pleated Dress to a Box Pleated Skirt
How to Change Dress Neckline & sleevesHow to Replace a Zipper Fly
And so much more.
BONUS - If you buy the Paperback version from Amazon, you can download the eBook Version for FREE, so you can see all the 180 images in FULL COLOR