Make Your Own Dress Patterns

This profusely illustrated primer in pattern making is great for creating fashionable clothing as well as pretty necklines, pockets, and sleeves. Nationally acclaimed sewing expert Adele Margolis provides simple, step-by-step directions and more than 1,000 illustrations for making clothes for work, home, and play everything from stylish skirts, dresses, and jackets to children's clothing.

PART I PATTERN WHYS

Geometric Gems

3

(7)

Geometric shapes, an old-new way of covering the figure

Geometric shapes, a basis for flat-pattern making

An Art to a Dart

10

(37)

Dart control, a system for shaping fabric to fit the figure

Design by darts

The necessary tools and slopers

It's a Pattern!

47

(22)

Converting a pattern exercise into a finished pattern

Pattern signs, symbols, and notations

Divided Darts, Added Interest

69

(26)

Dart control divided for fashion, fit, and fabric

Control Is What It Seams

95

(35)

Control in a style line

Shaping by seams

The Fullness Thereof

130

(60)

How to make patterns with balanced or circular fullness

Flares and flounces

Gathers, gores, and godets

Pleats and tucks

A Set of Slopers

190

(21)

Basic patterns to use in developing patterns for bodices, skirts, pants, culottes, sleeves, hip- and full-length garments, jackets, coats, and capes

Children's clothing

PART II STYLING

Notable Necklines

211

(37)

Turtleneck to waistline plunge

Neckline variations to cover (and uncover) figures, faces, situations, styles, and moods

Cowls at necklines, on skirts, sleeves, and pants

Easy Access

248

(49)

An open-and-shut case

Single-breasted, double-breasted, and asymmetric closings---and their fastenings

The Pocket Picture

297

(10)

Practical or pretty pockets applied to the surface of a garment

Pockets stitched into construction seams or style lines

Pockets set in a slash

Collar Capers

307

(45)

Collars, curves, and stands

Flat, rolled, roll-fitted, or standing collars

Dressmaker collars

Tailored collars

The Set-in Sleeve Scene

352

(30)

Anatomy of a set-in sleeve

Set-in sleeve types

Sleeve styles with fullness

Sleeve designs via control seams

Sleeveless styles

Sleeves in One with the Bodice

382

(40)

Kimono sleeve

Cap sleeve

Strap-shoulder sleeve

Raglan sleeve

Dolman sleeve

Sleeve and yoke in one

Sleeve Finishes

422

(23)

Finishes for slim sleeves, for full sleeves

Plackets, cuffs, and fitted bands

Remnants

445

Draping

Pattern grading

Procedure for making a pattern

Muslin models

Possible pattern layouts

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Make Your Own Dress Patterns

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