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Make head-turning, show-stopping skirts using simple sewing techniques and inexpensive, readily available materials with 49 Sensational Skirts. This fabulous sewing book shows how to give a new lease on life to a favorite old skirt, transform thrift store finds into runway-worthy fashions with clever customizations, and how to make and decorate a skirt from scratch using the handy bound-in pattern template. No previous sewing knowledge necessary!
Author Alison Willoughby, an innovative textile designer who made her mark in the fashion world as "skirtgirl" for her work on hand-constructed intricate skirts, offers up forty-nine fabulous skirt designs-plus one sassy mini skirt-in this innovative sewing and customizing book. Core techniques are illustrated with step-by-step photographs, from sewing fabric into seams, to pleating and ruching to screen printing and adding embellishments. Learn how to manipulate fabric to create fabulous effects such as ruffles, loops and layers; produce unusual decorations using beads, buttons, badges, ribbons, and myriad found objects; create unique prints and patterns with pens, paints, and foil. Step-by-step instructions for making a wide range of skirts are included, plus instructions for numerous stitch techniques, and descriptions of various fabrics, fastenings, and finishings. Also included is a special section by the author on inspiration exercises to get your creativity flowing.
49 Sensational Skirts has all of the information a sewer needs to get started creating custom fashions. You'll be spoiled for ways to work that skirt!
“This might very well be one of the top ten sewing books you will ever need.” —Make It Mine
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Paperbound, 7½ x 9¾, 128 pages
700 photographs
ISBN 978-1-59668-061-6
$24.95
February 2008
About the author:
Alison Willoughby works almost exclusively with the skirt, its large flat surface is the ideal canvas for the application of layered and manipulated fabric. One of her first memories of garments and textiles was her mother's dressing-up box-full of old petticoats, taffeta skirts, ostrich feathers, and clothes from the 1930s to 1960s passed down through the generations-and the fun she and her sister would have wearing them around the house. Alison has been running her own business in London since graduating from The Royal College of Art, graduating with an MA in Constructed Textiles Mixed Media. She has exhibited, sold, and lectured internationally.
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