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Clone Your Clothes

Pattern Making Techniques to Recreate Your Best-loved Clothes

Claire-Louise Hardie

Description

This practical guide for home dressmakers explains how to remake your wardrobe favourites without having to unpick and ruin the originals.

The book explains a number of techniques you can use that enable you to remake without having to ruin first. These include:

Direct Measurement which works well for simple shapes without too much shaping or detail
Over Draping which is useful for complicated designs like a waterfall frill or a ruched panel, where measuring or tracing would be impossible
Tracing, a quick and easy technique suitable for lots of different styles of clothing

All of the cloning methods are explained with step-by-step instructions and photography so you can follow along. Each technique is illustrated using an example garment so you can see how it works in practice.

The second part of the book, the Design School, shows you how to apply these techniques and skills to specific garments. There is a pair of trousers, a simple dress, a gathered skirt, a shirt and a camisole top. Learn which methods to use for different types of clothing and when to use a combination of different methods to get the best results.