A Guide to Fashion Sewing: Bundle Book + Studio Access Card

Description

A Guide to Fashion Sewing, 6th Edition, provides a comprehensive fashion sewing resource for beginning and advanced sewers alike. Readers will learn how to assemble and construct designs of various styles using proven industry methods for more than 100 sewing applications. Chapters cover everything from sewing equipment, measurements, and fabric selection to actual garment assembly. Filled with easy to follow, step-by-step instructions and large, clear illustrations, this book is an indispensable resource for constructing quality garments. Accompanying video demonstrations help readers learn at their own pace basic sewing skills and techniques such a seams, darts, bias binding, zipper, and garment assembly. The new edition features an updated design, new industrial sewing machine information and photographs, and expanded information on tailoring. Amaden-Crawford has added convenient metric measurement equivalents to the text, helpful project checklists to aid self-assessment of completed project, and 1/2 scale patterns to make sample garment assembly easier than ever before. A Guide to Fashion Sewing STUDIO: -Study smarter with self-quizzes featuring scored results and personalized study tips -Review concepts with flashcards of terms and definitions -Watch videos with step-by-step demonstrations of basic sewing skills, including techniques such as seams, darts, bias bindings, zippers, and garment assembly

Connie Amaden-Crawford is President and CEO of Fashion Patterns by Coni, a member of the Sewing Hall of Fame, and a licensed designer for The McCall Pattern Company under the Butterick label. She is author of The Art of Fashion Draping, 4th Edition (Fairchild Books, 2012).

The illustrations are fantastic and descriptions relatively straight-forward. -- Kristy A. Janigo, The Art Institutes International Minnesota, US Generally an easy book to understand for first year fashion sewing students. Straight-forward illustrations and instructions. -- Zigwai Remy Odukomaiya, The Art Institute of Dallas, US A Guide to Fashion Sewing is very effective in terms of the technical elements to any fashion course. It gives clear step-by-step guidance and a comprehensive and clear explanation to the process or technique. -- Georgina Hooper, Chichester College, UK There are several things about this book I like including the illustrations and the overall progression through apparel construction. -- Stephanie Bailey, Texas Christian University The illustrations are fantastic and descriptions relatively straight-forward. -- Kristy A. Janigo, The Art Institutes International Minnesota, US