Product Description

This title provides step-by-step instructions and illustrations on how to make the patterns and sew basic garments such as tracksuits, t-shirts, leggings, skirts, shorts/trousers, anoraks, pinafores and dungarees. Hints and tips are provided on how to restyle garments to make them trendy or sporty. The emphasis is on simplicity, which should appeal to both the novice and the experienced seamstress.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1566257 in Books
• Published on: 2003-09-28
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 112 pages

From Booklist
Forget those memories of difficult assignments in home ec--today's sewing books concentrate on easy-to-do projects that require fewer than 24 hours of stitching. Sewing expert Bergh assumes her readers have some basic knowledge of both the craft and the machine. She also assumes that manufacturing simple but trendy kids' clothes--on the cheap--is the end goal. So, instead of relying on commercial patterns, she creates five building blocks--bodice, sleeve, skirt, dress, trouser--that become the foundation of eight different outfits. Each has the same content: pattern, measurements, fabric suggestions, step-by-step sewing directions, and embellishments. Though the process she outlines is relatively easy, the difference between a professional and an amateurish tracksuit will be determined by patience and know-how. Barbara Jacobs
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About the Author
Rene Bergh is a highly skilled dress designer with a broad range of experience in the fashion industry. She spent many years travelling extensively around the world to increase her knowledge of the trade. She is the author of the very successful Make Your Own Patterns, The Dressmaker's Handbook and Classic Clothes, also published by New Holland. She is currently designing patterns for exclusive fashion houses, working from her seaside studio in Capetown, South Africa.

Customer Reviews

Great potential, big letdown!
I was so excited to find a new book about sewing children's clothes, since most books were written in the 1970's and 1980's.
Basically, this is a book about pattern making for children's basics. The problem is you need to have a good deal of sewing knowledge before tackling this. Descriptions of the idividual sewing projects are very brief. There are nice color pictures though. The embellishing ideas are listed very briefly with no directions. There was so much potential here if there would have been more instruction of sewing details, variations and embellishments.