Girl with a Sewing Machine The no-fuss guide to making and adapting your own clothes

This beautiful, instructive book from The Great British Sewing Bees Jenniffer Taylor shows you how to make and adapt your own clothes without the need for shop-bought patterns. Using Jenniffer's fun and imaginative ideas, this book will teach you how to get started transforming unloved items of clothing into new and exciting outfits; how to customise clothes with doilies, tassels, tie-dyeing and block printing; and finally how to measure yourself, create patterns and make clothes from scratch, including dresses, skirts, tops, trousers and a coat.

The book is packed with all the tricks of the trade that Jenniffer has learned along her sewing journey, and it will get you started on your own #sewingrevolution!

Jenniffer Taylor studied Dance and Visual Arts at the Northern Contemporary School of Dance and then completed her BA Hons Degree at Brighton University. She enjoys painting, cooking and photography as well as being the vocalist and lyricist for a band called Snooty Bobs. Her addiction to sewing began when she decided to design and make her own wedding dress. The experience unlocked her creativity and for the first time she found she was able to express her individual style, empowering her to create garments that she always wanted but was unable to get.

Jenni’s husband Kirk recognized her passion for sewing and secretly submitted her application for the Great British Sewing Bee 2014. After being eliminated at week 5, Jenni was determined to make something of the experience she had gained from being on the show, and she is now a prominent and popular personality on the ‘sewing scene’, running ‘sewing revolution’ workshops in and around the Midlands where she lives, presenting on Create & Craft and being featured in several sewing magazines, exhibitions and shows.

Introduction
My sewing journey
Basic sewing kit
Sourcing clothes
Getting started
Pincushion
Scarf top
Jumper gloves and snood
Festival pouch
Customising your clothes 
Doily detail on a T-shirt             
Block printing and tie-dyeing on a shirt and jeans
Tassel T-shirt
Shirt reverse
Making clothes from scratch
Measuring yourself
Carousel skirt
Batwing dress
Kimono dress
Cross-back top
Sumer top with box pleats
Blanket coat
Gilet variation
Dunga dress
Dunga variation
Wrap trousers
Glossary
Index