101 Bodice Designs: Dress Ideas for Women, Children & Dolls [Paperback]

Julie M. Mueller (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 20, 1997

A new design idea book with at least 101 different ideas for dresses and blouses including: princess, square, keyhole and V necklines. And, featuring techniques such as: cutwork, quilting, heirloom sewing, smocking, embroidery, ribbon work, serging and color blocking to name just a few. Each of the 101 different illustrations includes a description of how to achieve the design and suggests fabrics and trims. Five pages of patterns designed to beautifully fit most 18-20: dolls such as Gotz, Plesant Company and many porcelain dolls are included as well.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

An excellent addition to your sewing library. Plenty of great ideas and techniques. A wonderful book, not to be missed

About the Author

Julie Mueller is a well known sewing teacher, pattern drafter, and author of many sewing articles. She is currently the regular columnist of "Dressmaker's Forum" in DollMaking Magazine.

Product Details

• Paperback: 53 pages
• Publisher: Acorn Pr (October 20, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 192986700X
• ISBN-13: 978-1929867004
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.4 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,696,549 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A Very Disappointing Book, July 10, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: 101 Bodice Designs: Dress Ideas for Women, Children & Dolls (Paperback)

I'm a porcelain dollmaker, and I was very curious about this book, so I ordered a copy, even though I thought that $20.00 (and no discount) was a pretty steep price, based upon the prices of other doll costuming books that I've purchased. The first thing that I noticed about it is that although it was advertised as a spiral-bound book, in fact it is just a plain old booklet of folded sheets of paper, stapled down the middle. Second, the type in the booklet is so large that there is really only about 20 pages of information in it, even though it is 53 pages long. There are a few 18" doll bodice patterns in the back of the book, and a chart to help you adjust the patterns for dolls of other sizes, but I have seen the same information elsewhere. If you are serious about making doll clothes, and you want a really useful book of doll patterns, buy Venus Dodge's book The Doll's Dressmaker: The Complete Pattern Book. It has many, many more ideas, patterns sizes, and styles, an it costs less.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A MUST HAVE, July 7, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: 101 Bodice Designs: Dress Ideas for Women, Children & Dolls (Paperback)

If you are a doll maker this is a "must have" bookfor you. The ideas that you can get from this book are endless andeasy to understand. You can design dresses from simple to complex. This is a user friendly book for the beginner or the more advanced doll maker.

If you design your own clothes it would also be an extremely valuable book to own.

You won't be disappointed.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Projects for the novice and the expert!, October 26, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: 101 Bodice Designs: Dress Ideas for Women, Children & Dolls (Paperback)

What an informative little jewel of a book! I have looked everywhere for bodice design ideas and came up dry. Julie knows what doll clothes creators, mothers, and creative sewers needed. The directions are clear and the patterms are wonderful. Thank you, Amazon, for making this available.