Pattern Making Templates for Skirts & Dresses: All you need to design, adapt and customize your clothes Paperback – 20 Feb. 2017

This has to be the best book on patternmaking I have ever read! Easy to understand and follow, to enable you to make all the skirts and dresses in the book. The authors explain the concept of making just one block, from which you can use to make all the other designs. To make it even easier the blocks are downloadable, 2 are available, standard or full busted. For each design there are instructions on how to alter your block to make the desired item. I can’t tell you how delighted I am with this book. It has helped overcome lots of fitting issues for me, and is a wealth of information. Well worth the 5 stars.

Great addition to my sewing library. Easy to follow instructions and useful information

It is ok if ou want to make those models which are described in the book. However, if you want to learn the principles of pattern making it is not the best read. Personally, I think you can equally find ready-made patterns for those garment designs without going into trouble creating those patterns yourself, which would save a lot of time.

One of the best written and explanatory pattern cutting books on the market.Great addition to my pattern making books

great book highly recommend

This is not really for beginners. It’s difficult to understand and I don’t have the confidence to even know where to begin. I think the teaching is very proper, and would be fine if you could attend classes, and use the book at home for reference, but on its own it’s hard. The other frustrating thing is the pictures of the finished items - too much scenery and not close up enough on the garments themselves! I want to see the details of the waistbands etc, and they’re either covered up by another item of clothing not part of the lesson, or too far away in a dark fabric so you can’t see it! The semicircle skirt apparently has a yoke, but you can’t see it in the picture at all. There is lots of useful information in this book but I don’t feel confident or able to draft a pattern after reading it.

It was what I was looking for

read this book it helped me to draw my own skirt pattern for the first time.

I'm a self taught seamstress and this book has been a great help in improving my sewing skills.

A cheerful and instructive book. Alice also has been a costume maker, so has extra flare. And she worked for years doing custom work, which is also gorgeous (we checked on-line). When inspiration and drafting guidance is needed, this is the book for you!

c'est un livre en anglais mais facilement compréhensible,beaucoup de dessins et illustrations; on peut obtenir les patrons de bases d'un site et les imprimer chez soi;puis les modifier selons les dessinssimple et claire pour débuants

clearly written and easily adapted to most patterns