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.
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112 of 114 people found the following review helpful
By Eliza
Format:Paperback
I bought this book thinking that it will show me how to draft patterns from scratch. Instead, what it really does is give instruction on how to fit a basic (shell/sloper) store bought pattern and how to work with it to create different looks. If you design your own cloth and would like to make working patterns for the designs, this book will be very helpful for you. If you want to learn pattern drafting, look elsewhere.
53 of 53 people found the following review helpful
By S. Wellman
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
This book starts by explaining the function of darts in a basic sloper, and demonstrates how to retain the fitting functions while changing the positions of the darts. The author shows how to divide one dart into several, replace a dart with a series of tucks, replace a dart with gathers, and even eliminate the dart. As the chapters progress, the alterations become more complex, for example, transferring the fit conferred by the basic dart into curved seams. The book is not intended to help in fitting clothes; one must already have the basic slopers for a bodice, skirt, or pants. The author's understanding of patterns and how they fit is highly accurate, and the suggestions for changes are innovative. I would say that the book deserves four or five stars for its theoretical analysis - my criticism is that it isn't very practical. Perhaps I'm being too demanding, for it may be impossible to teach pattern-making without hands-on demonstrations. The book's fashions are, unfortunately but unavoidably, dated. This, too, affects the extent to which the book is helpful in designing modern garments, and as a consequence I am, after reading it, still unsure of how I would change certain pattern styles. I nevertheless recommend the book for its value in understanding general principles of making a piece of flat cloth fit the contours of the body.
72 of 78 people found the following review helpful
By Ellen
Format:Paperback
Back when everyone sewed, Adele Margolis's books were best sellers and book club selections, prized for their excellent and easy-to-follow instructions on dress-making, tailoring, and creating your own patterns. As publishers phased out their craft divisions, her books went out of print, though they were still eagerly hunted down online and passed down from sewing mother to sewing daughter. Now--thank you Dover Publishers!--here is a re-issue of one of her timeless classics, with guidance that is just as fresh and useful as ever. If you sew, if you ever wanted to sew, if you just want to understand more about how clothes should be made, you MUST have this book by the Julia Child of sewing.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
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good
The book is a very good book for beginner and good instructions and easy to follow them I will recommend
Published 27 days ago by Merce
4.0 out of 5 stars
Helpful Book
A lot of good info in this book and I will use it a lot. The patterns are quite useful.
Published 1 month ago by Rogene D. Paskins
3.0 out of 5 stars
Do not buy this on Kindle
I bought this on my kindle....I don't know what I was thinking. The book is fine, but it is impracticle for me to have it on the kindle. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Mrs. Miller
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent and Informative
I already have two of Margolis' books. This one is for a clever grand-daughter who will enjoy creating her own patterns, for costuming mainly. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Patricia Clements
4.0 out of 5 stars
Making Dress Patterns
I only needed help with designing one area. This book was the only one that had the information I needed. I completed the design and am most pleased.
Published 1 month ago by J. Mobley
3.0 out of 5 stars
Patterns
This pattern allows my daughter to design her own dress and try to sew it. I think it is ok for the price we paid.
Published 2 months ago by Gonzalo Rivera
5.0 out of 5 stars
Really good.
This is a good book to walk you through the process of pattern -making. It covers areas I did not know existed in fashion. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Aida L. Arnaldy
4.0 out of 5 stars
Make Your Own Dress Patterns
I like the illustrations in the book, I use it spareanlly mostly for style ideas. Its a fair enough information about making your own sewing patterns, I am sure there are better... Read more
Published 9 months ago by jodakid333
5.0 out of 5 stars
Has really increased my skills
I have been sewing for a few years, clothing for about a year. I am a creative type, 26 years old, who was frustrated that when I made a Big 4 pattern it wouldn't fit right and... Read more
Published 10 months ago by dorothea brooke
5.0 out of 5 stars
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I've designed fashions for 3 decades with no formal schooling. This book handed me my PhD! Consider adding this book to your sewing library even if all you want to do is combine... Read more
Published on May 14, 2011 by seamstress428
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