Elevate Your Sewing: Brilliant Techniques for Adding Personal Style to Any Garment

Fashion sewing entrepreneur and award-winning designer Mahon’s (Ultimate Illustrated Guide to Sewing Clothes) book guides readers through many how-to sewing techniques, such as incorporating zippers, buttonholes, edge finishes, embellishments, pattern enhancements, and much more. For good measure, the book includes a glossary of terms, a monogram alphabet, and an index for easy look-ups. Each technique is thoroughly described in a step-by-step fashion and includes many illustrations. When appropriate, there are reference tables and conversions for left-handed sewists. Additional resources—patterns, videos, and more—are available online via QR codes from the book. One chapter is a collection of six garment patterns, and another tackles redesigning and customizing ready-to-wear garments. The final two chapters pull together many techniques to illustrate how they work together to create a coherent garment. There are plenty of topics here for sewing enthusiasts to pounce on.