All the guidance you need to create beautiful clothes whether you are following a pattern adding embellishments or starting from scratch. The step by step instructions for a wide range of dressmaking techniques from basic patterns through to couture designs makes it suitable for beginners as well as sewers with more experience. Easy-to-follow highly illustrated instructions explain the essential dressmaking techniques
- allowing you to work confidently from a pattern to create beautiful clothes that fit perfectly. It features an at-a-glance guide to basic garment shapes & styles cross referenced with the relevant techniques throughout the book.

Includes:: advice on body shape choosing the right fabric for the right garment as well as decorative sewing techniques such as embroidery & applique. It features step techniques for making basic garment details including waistbands hems sleeves cuffs necklines collars fastenings pockets & linings. Suitable for beginners or those who are already designing or making their own clothes this is the perfect book for honing dressmaking skills & inspiring fashionable new designs.


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This title provides all the know-how you need to create your own wardrobe. Dressmaking gives you all the tools you need to make alter & customise your own clothes from choosing the right fabrics to key techniques such as hemming & hand stitching. You can create a complete wardrobe with 12 basic scalable patterns & step-by-step instructions for classic items such as pencil skirts dresses & jackets plus how to customise them to make them your own so you can make 30 garments in total. Dressmaking is packed with essential advice inspiration & the patterns you need to create beautiful clothes making this superb value & the dressmaking bible no seamstress can be without. ...

Making well-fitting clothes is a challenge for many dressmakers but especially so for those of us with a curvy shape or a plus-size. This book shows you how to take a standard commercial pattern in a larger size make some smart adjustments & end up with clothes that will give you a great flattering fit. Dressmaking to Flatter Your Shape

Includes:: detailed information on selecting fabrics & choosing styles to fit your shape. It explains how to get a perfect fit out of any sewing pattern with troubleshooting techniques to cover tricky points such as shoulders necklines sleeves hips & waists. Using this book you will also pick up tips on how to personalise a pattern to your own style by changing the collar or cuffs of a top or even by drafting your very own skirt pattern from scratch!

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Got a dressmaking problem you can't solve? Curious to know more about a specific technique? Want to know how to construct a garment? Dressmaking 200 Questions Answered will come to your rescue answering 200 questions on a vast range of dressmaking topics. Questions designed for beginners & experienced needlecrafters. Helpful advice from a leading expert on all aspects of dressmaking. Clear detailed illustrations help explain specific techniques & effects. Chapters cover sewing equipment measurements & fitting preparing & cutting out fabric machine stitching & much more. ...

Intelligent ambitious & a rising star in the French artillery Captain Alfred Dreyfus appeared to have everything: family money & the prospect of a post on the General Staff. But his rapid rise had also made him enemies
- many of them aristocratic officers in the armys High Command who resented him because he was middle-class meritocratic & a Jew. In October 1894 the torn fragments of an unsigned memo containing military secrets were retrieved by a cleaning lady from the waste paper basket of Colonel Maximilien von Schwartzkoppen of the German embassy in Paris. When French intelligence pieced the document back together to uncover proof of a spy in their midst Captain Dreyfus on slender evidence was charged with selling military secrets to the Germans found guilty of treason by unanimous verdict & sentenced to life imprisonment on the notorious Devils Isl&. The fight to free the wrongfully convicted Dreyfus
- over twelve long years through many trials
- is a story rife with heroes & villains courage & cowardice dissimulation & deceit. One of the most infamous miscarriages of justice in history the Dreyfus affair divided France stunned the world & unleashed violent hatreds & anti-Semitic passions which offered a foretaste of what was to play out in the long bloody twentieth century to come. Today amid charged debates over national & religious identity across the globe its lessons throw into sharp relief the conflicts of the present. In the hands of historian biographer & prize-winning novelist Piers Paul Read this masterful epic of the struggle between a minority seeking justice & a military establishment determined to save face comes dramatically alive for a new generation.


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Ten years in the making Dribble! is an A-Z of credulity-twanging facts & stories about what Pele once memorably dubbed my bloody job. It

Includes:: definitive explanations of everyday phrases such as the magic of the cup & low centre of gravity; a complete guide to becoming a terrace character & an in-depth account of how Roy Keanes pyjamas got him a smack on the nose.. . It also addresses hitherto ignored aspects of the beautiful game including its longstanding relationship with Country & Western. Johnny Cash dubbed himself The Man in Black in homage to his idol referee Arthur Ellis & wrote what is arguably the greatest song ever written about the life of an assistant referee
- I Walk the Line.


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Artist & filmmaker Philippe Parreno who created the documentary Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait takes us in Drift on a unique voyage through London
- a journey without the typical purposes of a journey an artistic psychogeographical path
- part of a series of twelve books tied to the twelve lines of the London Underground as Tfl celebrates 150 years of the Tube with Penguin. It is also available in a boxset. Authors include the masterly John Lanchester the children of Kids Company comic John OFarrell & social geographer Danny Dorling. Ranging from the polemical to the fantastical the personal to the societal they offer something for every taste. All experience the city as a cultural phenomenon & notice its nature & its people. Read individually theyre delightful small reads pulled together they offer a particular portrait of a global city". (Evening Standard). " Exquisitely diverse". (The Times). " Eclectic & broad-minded.. .beautifully designed". (Tom Cox Observer). "A fascinating collection with a wide range of styles & themes. The design qualities are excellent as you might expect from Penguin with a consistent look & feel while allowing distinctive covers for each book. This is a very pleasing set of books". (A Common Reader blog). " The contrasts & transitions between books are as stirring as the books themselves...A multidimensional literary jigsaw". (Londonist). "A series of short sharp city-based vignettes
- some personal some political & some pictorial.. .each inimitable author finds that our city is complicated but ultimately connected full of wit & just the right amount of grit". (Fabric Magazine). "A collection of beautiful books". (Grazia). Praise for Philippe Parrenos work: " Exceptional.. .a small masterpiece". (Laura Cumming Guardian). " One of Frances hottest commodities. An artist with an almost chameleon-like approach to his medium he can switch from film-maker to sculptor to storyteller to producer with the kind of dexterity that defies categorisation". (Guardian). Philippe Parreno is an Algerian artist & filmmaker who has had shows in major art galleries around the world & is considered the finest writer among artists by curators such as Hans Ulrich Obrist. Based in Paris his documentary film Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait was released in 2006. He has exhibited in Mo MA Tate Modern & the Guggenheim among others."


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Hannah & Joey have been best friends for ever. Joeys parents love rescuing things & making them beautiful
- their house is full
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I feel like Im losing my best mate.. . Hannah & Joey have been best friends forever
- just the two of them. But when Joeys new
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Ten years ago a fortune in gold bullion was stolen only to disappear beneath the Irish Sea. Now its been found & Sean Dillon must face ghosts from his past in the race to get to it first. A fortune in stolen British gold brutally hijacked by Irish Protestant paramilitaries in the 1980s lies shipwrecked at the bottom of the Irish Sea. Now the Irish Rose & her precious cargo have been found. The race is on to recover the bullion. Irish militant Michael Ryan wants to finance war in his homeland
- & a sinister pact with the New York Mafia will make his dreams a savage reality. To stop him the British & American authorities must call in the best: Sean Dillon once the most feared IRA enforcer now working for British Intelligence. His mission: to retrieve the gold & stop Ryan by any means necessary. With millions of pounds & countless innocent lives hanging in the balance the two men become locked in a furious race. Pursued by ghosts from his past Dillon must fight for his own survival in this brutally thrilling game of cat & mouse.
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