NEW! The SewImagination Workbook: Jackets

Soft Tailoring for Modern Sewing 248 pages including 8 in full color plus a pattern containing new necklines, collars, pockets, 1/8 scale templates of the 1945 jacket pattern series and more.

"This is jacket making for everyone...not your mother's tailoring book."

Defining soft tailoring that's miles apart from men's tailoring techniques and much easier for novice seamstresses.

Order today and start making great clothes you'll love to sew and wear.

The JACKETS book includes:

  • Choose from more than 50 different design ideas to change, refine, and create new styles from basic jacket patterns
  • Jacket pattern alteration and fit as you sew
  • 50 pages of guidesheet information to take you through each step, with special notations offering a variety of advice for fabric choices and sewing methods

  • Chapters include Facing Finesse, making your collars and edges sharp and flat; Making Your Arms Sigh, creating a neat, high armhole and shapely sleeve as found in fine designer clothing; Trim Techniques and Details, using everything from feathers and fur to yarn and zipper teeth to garnish your creations according to fahion's latest trend appetite, and much, much more. Everything you need to sew a closetful of wonderful jackets.

  • Copyright © 2005. Nancy Erickson Consulting

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