The Sewing Connection 16: Shirley Adams Sewing Connection - Couverture souple

Adams, Shirley

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 188438935X ISBN 13 : 9781884389351

Editeur : Sewing Connection, The, 2019

Synopsis

1.Down Under: Shirley uses a hand painted silk scarf from Australia to make this lightly quilted jacket with set-in sleeves. Learn proper pattern layout, and create embellishments to make this stunning scene straight from the Great Barrier Reef. 2.House in a Box:If you can stitch a simple line, you can build a child’s playhouse with fabric, a card table, and a storage box. Decorate your new home with cut-outs from floral fabrics and fuse the garden to your walls. Create a Camouflage Camp for your little soldiers, or re-create a Christmas village from your childhood. 3.Designing Buttons: Create the perfect fastener using your own fabric, a little creative stitching, and a simple button kit. Watch Shirley make Chinese Ball Buttons, crescents, toggles, Peruvian balls, and decorative ties.4.The Shell Game: Darts create fit to enhance any figure. Create trial garments from inexpensive fabrics, then read the wrinkles to determine where to put darts that fit your body. Shirley demonstrates the discreet use of darts for properly fitting a dowagers hump.5.Bare Bones of Fashion: Hidden beneath the perfect jacket lurks the under-structure that holds the garment in perfect shape: Interfacing. Whether wool, silk, cotton, quilted, or micro-suede, crisp or soft fitting, interfacing holds your structure. Learn how to choose the proper interfacing based on the structure, style, and fabric selection.6.Mesh Fabrics: Lightweight woven fabrics present a number of challenges. Discover fool-proof methods for ravel-proof seams and hems. Mix these airy delights with other fabric. If you want that raveled look on the edge of your jacket or blouse, Shirley demonstrates how to keep that fringe from unravelling your whole garment.7.Northern Exposure: Face no threat from cold weather poses in these fabulous fake furs from Donna Salyers. No animals harmed, but beautiful jackets long and short abound. Easy to use synthetic fur allows you to create a long luxurious sable coat or a short and fun white fox jacket. Shirley also shows you how easy fleeces and how to finish hats, scarves, hems. 8.Particularly Pretty Pillows: Create your own designer-inspired pillows and cushions to decorate any room whether it is a teen’s first dorm room or an ultra-chic townhouse. Recycle your scraps to create an expensive designer look – without the expense. Shirley shows you the secret to a professional finish with zippered covers, welted edges, and mitered corners. 9.Really Small Investments: Vests? Yes, vests! Introduce your little ones to the joy of sewing by helping them make these fun slip on vests. Easily add sleeves later, but the children will love the alligator with his bric-a-brac smile hiding behind a zipper. The log-cabin style tabard is perfect for play clothes. Winter is no match for a reversible ski vest. 10.The Cutting Edge: Embroidered cut-work adds interest to any fabric whether suede, microfiber, heavy cotton, or light silk. Cut out shapes from decorative lace, stabilize them, and let a little bit of skin shine through. Insert complimentary colors behind your cutouts for a sleek modern look.11.Create Necklines: Alter necklines on existing garments for comfort or style. Shirley demonstrates symmetry, asymmetry, the keyhole neck, and a graceful drape. Use one simple pattern to create any neckline. Shirley makes a vest in black and adds a brilliant crystal zipper. It is easy to add arms later so do not rule out the vest.12.Bridge The Gap: Easy to make, bias cut fabric tubes become a fastener for a jacket, or a decorative accent at a low neckline. Connect the bodice and skirt of an evening dress with bias tubes for just a peek of skin.13.Front Lines: Dickies! But not the barbecue. Abbreviated fronts expand your work (or play) wardrobe. Simply snap a new front inside your jacket and you have a new look.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Sewing Connection, The
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 188438935X
• ISBN 13: 9781884389351
• Reliure: Broché
• Illustrateur: Adams Shirley
• Nombre de pages: 64
• Éditeur: Adams Shirley
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg