Love at First Stitch: Demystifying Dressmaking (bestselling sewing book, learn to sew, sewing for beginners)

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I love how she has a very conversational style - "Don't worry if you have to unpick a little bit here' or 'I like to pour a cheeky glass of wine and relax for a little button-sewing!

Written for novice stitchers by the author of the popular sewing blog Tilly and the Buttons , this book presents the sewing basics in an informal style, with Tilly's friendly and encouraging voice cheering the reader on throughout. Within three years of first threading a needle Tilly's blog is the most popular sewing blog in the UK and she appeared as a contestant in the first series of The Great British Sewing Bee, the only contestant to design and draft her own garment designs.Simple, elegant, and a little groovy, Love at First Stitch is all you need to start making the dresses of your dreams--with 7 complete full-size patterns.

most sewing books assume you are already an expert, and don't have the same love of sewing radiating from the pages. The styling on her projects also means that there is a lot here for dressmakers who already have a good basic skills set. The advertising cookies associated with our service belonging to our advertising partners as listed under cookie details. I have found that have been able to extrapolate what I have learned from here to create simple patterns for my daughter, and produce dresses for her that look well-finished and fit properly. This is the first of one of my more in depth book reviews where you'll hopefully see what projects are like to make as well as what is in the book and who it might be suitable for.Love at First Stitch' will take any beginner who wants to learn to sew their own clothes on a skill building and jargon busting journey. Between teaching dressmaking classes at sewing schools in both London and Birmingham, Tilly is developing her own line of dressmaking patterns.