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Sew U: The Built by Wendy Guide to Making Your Own Wardrobe

by Wendy Mullin, Eviana Hartman and Beci Orpin

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Sew U: The Built by Wendy Guide to Making Your Own Wardrobe

The first truly cool guide to making the essentials of a stylish wardrobe using 3 Simplicity(R) patterns created exclusively for this book. Like knitting before it, sewing is being reclaimed by a new generation; one that is bored by poor quality and homogenous design. Downtown fashion designer Wendy Mullin of 'Built by Wendy' will teach the creatively-inclined and ultra-stylish how to make the perfect skirt, shirt and trousers. She gives readers everything they need to know to begin sewing and provides step-by-step instructions and patterns directly from her own studio. She'll explain how to customise everything from the fit to the pockets so readers can create a thousand different looks using the same 3 patterns. These ideas will inspire readers to rethink and revamp all their old clothes to make unique, custom fashions. For those who find themselves brimming with ideas, but unable to make everything themselves, Wendy also offers guidance on how to work with a tailor.

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3-star review

If you're interested in dressmaking [and saving money as you create your own wardrobe!] then this book was created for you. It includes some great timeless designs for various items of clothing that will encourage your creativity to run wild as you can easily customise the basics that are given by Mullins in this book. Also, there are a few dressmaking patterns included with the title - great for if you're new to dressmaking or too nervous to try your own pattern - which are usually quite difficult to buy over the counter. This really is the book to buy if you want to create some truly individual clothes; it's more like a modern day toolbox containing almost everything to do with design and practicality that you could ever dream of!

Review by Colette Barnes on 14:04, 04 Apr 2008

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