The Maker's Atelier: The Essential Collection: Sewing with Style

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This is a book for women of any age or shape who want to dress well but cannotalways find what they want on the high street.

Designer Frances Tobin has taken the key shapes from some of the mostenduring fashion trends, such as the stretch pencil skirt, the cigarette pants, the tie-neck blouse and the oversized t-shirt, and refined them into clear dressmaking patterns with easy-to-follow instructions. Franceshas sourced the perfect fabrics to suit each garment and shows four alternativelooks for each of the eight patterns to provide further technical know-how as well as styleideas to enable the home dressmaker to make their own capsule collectionof garments unique to them. For example, the pencil skirt is shown in a taupe woven stretch gabardine to suit an elegant working wardrobe, but alternatively this skirt takeson an edgier look when made up in metallic copper stretch fabric with a raw hem.

With the 8 dressmaking patterns supplied in the pack alongside the book, andgiven in sizes UK 8 to 20, The Makers Atelier: The Essential Collection makesit possible for all women whether dressmaking novices or accomplishedseamstresses to own an enviable selection of timeless and adaptable staplegarments.

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Frances Tobin trained in Fashion & Textiles and graduated from London's prestigious RoyalCollege of Art. She has designed clothing ranges for many leading fashion brands, includingGucci, Les Copains, Espirit, French Connection and Warehouse. In 2014 Frances founded her dressmaking pattern brand, The Makers Atelier, on the belief that the simplest shapes in thefinest fabrics make the most successful clothes. www.themakersatelier.com