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 enlarge | Author: Claire B. Shaeffer
Publisher: Rodale Press
Category: Book
List Price: $29.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  27 reviews
Sales Rank: 179151
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 245
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.3
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8 x 0.8
ISBN: 0875967175
Dewey Decimal Number: 646.404
EAN: 9780875967172
ASIN: 0875967175
Publication Date: May 1997
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| Customer Reviews:
 Fabulous Book! January 9, 2007
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
I have been struggling with sewing for years. Understanding the proper construction
techniques "from the ground up" has made an enormous change in how I view the entire process.
This book is the best I have ever read and should be required reading for any
sewer!
 So non-new information that I laughed November 10, 2006
13 out of 79 found this review helpful
Being a fan of Project Runway and a long-time sewer, I was looking forward to learning those "secrets" of the world's best designers. Ha! I wish I had thought to write the book because I already knew them all. My mom (not a designer or a professional seamstress) taught my sister and me in the 1950s and 1960s everything that's in the book and what she didn't (the serger stuff) I taught myself. My sister and I laughed ourselves silly at the "secrets"--bound buttonholes? piping? facings? I do feel sorry for all of the people who want to sew, weren't taught by my mother, and can't read pattern instructions, but for me? What a waste of money.
Secrets that sould be known to every sewer August 28, 2006
19 out of 19 found this review helpful
Although the pictures are old fashioned, to say the least, the technic and tips of how to manage the smallest details are priceless. And I thought I knew it all after 25 years of sewing. This book is a bible to every sewer.
 High fashion...Maybe August 22, 2006
19 out of 22 found this review helpful
I was completely unimpressed with this book. It does contain some interesting sewing techniques, but for the most part she shows you how to copy design features of now out-of-style designer clothing and shares a lot of famous designer trivia (lots of name dropping). There are some useful tips, but for the price of the book, tips are not worth it. The last third of the book is dedicated to drafting patterns from scratch or copying other clothing. The only photos are of the finished garment - no photos of the techniques or steps. Illustrations are adequate, not great.
Great for taking your sewing skills to the next level... August 7, 2006
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
If you have never sewn before or are just starting, this book is not for you. The author assumes someone reading this book has some intermediate sewing skills. The techniques in this book are useful, when you want to go from making a plain old patch/seam pocket to a double welt, bound buttonholes instead of the ghetto machine stitched ones, and there is really good information about facings, interfacing, and lining.
The best part of this book, the clincher, was the back section on drafting, altering and copying patterns. As a self-taught fledgling fashion designer, I need all of the references I can get on pattern drafting. This section is pretty thorough, with different copying methods on a variety of garments and garment parts.
There are two things I don't like about this book, however. The first is the name dropping, while it was nice to know which designer the certain techniques were used by, it could have been toned down a bit. The second was the Design Worksheet in the very back, the body template drawing is horribly ugly and way out of proportion.
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