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<p>The complete guide to pattern fitting and sewing your own knit clothes. Learn how to alter knit sewing patterns to achieve a perfect fit on everything from tight-fitting tops to casual knit pants. <i>Fit for Knits </i>also teaches you the best sewing techniques for stretchy garments, including garment industry secrets that will take your sewing skills to the next level.</p> <b>CONTENT OVERVIEW</b> <ul><li>Pattern fitting for knit tops, pants and skirts</li><li>Instructions for pattern adaptations and alterations</li> <li>Alter knit patterns to suit different needs</li> <li>How to pick the right knit fabric</li> <li>Cutting and preparing knits for sewing</li> <li>Troubleshooting and fixing common issues </li> <li>Best stitches for sewing knits</li> <li>Sewing pants, tops and skirts</li> <li>Hemming garments</li> <li>Sewing neckbands</li> <li>Sewing darts on knits</li> <li>Sewing waistbands</li> <li>Sewing pockets</li></ul>

Covering the basic principles and the creative techniques behind making effective design drawings-the central pillar of fashion design-this guide is perfect for students as well as for professionals working in all branches of the garment and fashion industries. From hand drawing to using software applications, it explains how to create drawings that clearly and precisely illustrate the shape, material, pattern, color, and other elements of garments. Patterners, retailers, and fashion design students will rejoice in these comprehensive instructions for making design drawings understandable and expressive.

Tell your own stories and express your own spirit with thread. This stitchery spree through nature with master embroidery designer Juno gives you a new way to experience your embroidery: be open, be intentional, follow your own way, and then-like adding magic-watch your stories and ideas express themselves on your fabric. Juno encourages you to open your senses to embroider beyond the visual, and 24 examples of her lovely botanical designs offer you inspiration plus projects to decorate your everyday life with stitchery: clothing, purses, bookmarks, blankets, and more. The projects include full-size patterns, instructions, and reminders NOT to use instructions too much! As Juno reminds us, freedom of spirit makes for your best meditative stitching: &quot;It's hard to immerse yourself in a project when you're trying to stitch exactly as you envision or when you're concerned with efficiency.&quot; Whether your outside walks include foxes, rocks and minerals, stars, wild donkeys, squirrels, or polar bears-or five different breeds of cats?-the quirky, whimsical renditions Juno offers here are captivating. She also shares designs from fragments of nature created by the sea, sky, and mountains. Try an aerial view of a beach full of vacationers, or a white slope of silent skiers. How about sharp-textured mineral crystals like amethyst and amazonite? With Juno&#39;s guidance, stitch your stories to be as one of a kind as you are.

With this complete guide, discover why white is the new black! Learn the timeless charm of whitework embroidery in these thoroughly modern projects. Whitework is one of the few types of needlework that has rarely gone out of style through the centuries. These 15 gorgeous designs, each with a project to show it off, demonstrate how whitework comes to life not through color, but through the visual texture and sculptural effects your stitches create. Learn four of the most popular types of traditional whitework embroidery-Schwalm, Ajour, Hedebo, and drawn threadwork. The projects here are easy to succeed with, including table linens, pouches, wearables, and more, and are designed to fit perfectly with today&#39;s sense of beauty.Includes a complete how-to stitch guide and full-size patterns. Here&#39;s your opportunity to expand your stitching creations with whitework embroidery.

<b>Delve into new and unique embroidery designs inspired by botanicals and nature and created by well-known and well-respected Japanese needlecraft artist Yanase Rei.</b><br/><br/>Readers can capture the flowers, greenery, and animals found in their gardens, their neighborhoods, and their imaginations by stitching these embroidered botanical designs. Some bright, some dark, some richly complex like brocade, some simple and joyful-all the moods of the garden are offered here.<br/><br/>The rich, multilayered designs from well-known needlework artist yanase rei are at last available beyond her native Japan. Experienced embroiders and crafters new to embroidery will love these inspiring new designs.<br/><ul><li>Twenty-nine embroidery patterns, including colorful, pastel, beige, or black flowers; flowers combined with beads; animals, birds, and fish; leaves and greenery</li><li>Six complete projects-bow ties, hatbands, bookmarks, brooches, hairbands, and clutch purses</li><li>Techniques for creating framed embroidered artwork, embroidering on clothing, and selecting the best colors for their own personal embroidery gardens using single- or multiple-floss embroidery methods</li><li>A complete list of tools and materials necessary for creating stunning nature-inspired embroidery</li></ul> <p>Readers can use the patterns, techniques, and projects found in these pages to recreate rei's designs and then use them as a jumping off point to create lush and exciting embroidery gardens of their own.</p>

The perfect resource for fans who take their love of collectible sneakers to the level of customizing. With photos and tips for turning sneakers from well-known brands like Adidas and NIKE sneakers into works of art, the team at the popularCustomize Kicksmagazine introduces you to six experts&#39; construction techniques, and gives step-by-step photo instructions. The nine projects range from easy-painted details that can be completed in a weekend-to advanced, such as fully rebuilding the upper. While customizing any sneakers is a creative hobby or business, there are certain sneakers that are actually officially recommended by the manufacturer for customization, such as the Air Max 270; info on working with these is included. By mastering the basics along with many other helpful skills, you&#39;ll up your game. For example, the hydrographic film used to transfer difficult-to-hand-draw designs is hard to obtain. You&#39;ll learn the technique of "waterslide decal paper customization" requiring just a home printer and waterslide decal transfer paper. Enjoy customizing your own sneakers and asserting your individuality!

Social meets fashion history in the tantalizing story of the boot from the Roaring Twenties and Prohibition to online shopping and fashion blogs. Weaving together such unlikely elements as Glam Rock, the martyrdom of Joan of Arc, and the Iran-Contra scandal, it shows how the modern fashion boot plays with our ideas of gender, straddling the line between practical and stylish, between fashion and fetish. Peake, author of the popular Made for Walking blog, includes thought-provoking photos and graphs that look deeply into what boots do, and what we make them do. In the words of renowned designer Beth Levine, "Boots moved into prominence the same time The Pill did. Both were symbols of a woman's new freedom and emancipation." Whether you're a student of fashion history, a collector of vintage clothes, or someone who feels "five hundred times more dashing" wearing boots, this book is for you.