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

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Each chapter presents practical tips and inspiration to guide you through creating a made-to-measure garment from one of the seven versatile and adaptable patterns included with the book, which can then be personalised to suit your individual style. Love at First Stitch offers a refreshing approach to dressmaking for modern makers, taking you from the basics of threading your sewing machine through creating gorgeous garments that you'll love to wear.

There are 7 projects in the book that cover all the essential skills you need to begin sewing your own clothes - 5 of which are full size patterns in the back.

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. The progressively more challenging projects cover all the basic skills you will need that you can use in most patterns. This book has been used by so many dressmakers there is a huge variety of ideas that you can draw inspiration from (check out this Pinterest board). It's really nerve wracking to put something out there that I worked on so intensively for so long (especially on the Internet which can be so mean sometimes, yikes), so I really value your support.

If you've never been in one that can be a learning curve in itself - Tilly always includes fabric suggestions so when you do go in it's a lot less scary. was named 'Best Book' at the British Sewing Awards and 'Sewing Product of the Year' at the British Craft Awards. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.Between teaching dressmaking classes at sewing schools in both London and Birmingham, Tilly is developing her own line of dressmaking patterns. Alternatively, privacy settings in most browsers will allow you to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, have it notify you when you receive a new cookie, or disable cookies altogether.