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# Step-by-step sewing mastery Beginner-friendly, no jargon Detailed fabric shaping techniques The Dressmaking Book: A Simplified Guide for Beginners

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## Summary

> 🧵 Sew smart, look sharp — your dressmaking journey starts here!

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## Key Features

- • **Accessible & Engaging:** Written in a warm, informal style that feels like learning from a trusted mentor.
- • **Build a Solid Foundation:** Gain all the essential skills to confidently sew and customize patterns of average difficulty.
- • **Solve Fitting Challenges:** Tackle common fitting issues with professional tips on pressing, interfacing, and closures.
- • **Flatter Your Unique Shape:** Learn expert darting and fabric shaping to create garments tailored just for you.
- • **Master Sewing Fundamentals:** From stitching spirals to perfect seams, build confidence with hands-on practice.

## Overview

The Dressmaking Book by Adele Margolis is a beginner-focused guide that demystifies sewing with clear, practical instructions. It covers essential techniques like stitching, fabric shaping, fitting solutions, and finishing touches, all delivered in an approachable, friendly tone. Perfect for novices eager to create flattering, well-fitted garments with confidence.

## Description

Buy The Dressmaking Book: A Simplified Guide for Beginners Reprint ed. by Margolis, Adele (ISBN: 9781635618440) from desertcart's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

Review: Renders modern books for beginners obselete! - I wish I had bought this book first when embarking on my dressmaking learning curve. It is absolutely fantastic. Written in an informal, gentle style that makes you feel the author is your auntie teaching you to sew, it covers everything a new dressmaker could possibly want to know and more. It may be old but it isn't fusty or old fashioned in its tone, it's charmingly retro (in one section you are presented with a diagram showing figure types, ranging from 'Junior' and 'teen' through to 'sub teen' and 'chubbie', which had me and my husband in stitches) but still very relevant and is without creepy pictures that feel outdated. If it had glossy pages, it could pass for a much more modern book as the sketches are timeless. I have a huge collection of sewing and dressmaking books but this one is the first one I have actually wanted to sit and read from front to back in one sitting. Most enjoyable to read, this book is so sensible and practical, it assumes no prior knowledge but is not in the slightest patronising. Early on in the book, Mrs Margolis has you practice sewing spirals and curves, for instance, using an unthreaded machine on paper with the shape drawn on the paper, then again beside the first line of stitching with no guideline drawn, and when you feel confident doing that faultlessly, you can progress to fabric. She then explains about shaping flat fabric to create 3d garments. She explains darts and seams and their correct use for shaping, but she doesn't stop at superficially explaining the concept in its most simplistic form, she goes into sufficient detail as to give the reader a thorough grasp of how to add, change, or remove fabric shaping in order to flatter one's individual body shape and ensure a garment has beauty and form rather than one that simply has enough room to move in or isn't too baggy! This section made sense in a way that other books haven't. Further in the book, Mrs Margolis covers in some depth the most basic dressmaking skills such as fitting problems and solutions, pressing PROPERLY, interfacing, pleats, hemming, setting in sleeves, facings, seam finishes and closures. You are left with a thorough grounding in the fundamental techniques you will need in order to move on to more advanced dressmaking, and will feel very capable of picking out and confidently sewing a pattern of average difficult rating, and what's more, you'll know how to make it fit you properly. Highly, highly recommended.
Review: Really Helped A Novice! - Finding my feet around a sewing machine, next step from making face masks. This book is a must for people learning about dressmaking. Great book and a great price!

## Features

- The Dressmaking Book: A Simplified Guide for Beginners
- ABIS BOOK
- Echo Point Books

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | 1,091,867 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 8,368 in Needlework & Fabrics |
| Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 121 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Renders modern books for beginners obselete!
*by S***G on 20 October 2012*

I wish I had bought this book first when embarking on my dressmaking learning curve. It is absolutely fantastic. Written in an informal, gentle style that makes you feel the author is your auntie teaching you to sew, it covers everything a new dressmaker could possibly want to know and more. It may be old but it isn't fusty or old fashioned in its tone, it's charmingly retro (in one section you are presented with a diagram showing figure types, ranging from 'Junior' and 'teen' through to 'sub teen' and 'chubbie', which had me and my husband in stitches) but still very relevant and is without creepy pictures that feel outdated. If it had glossy pages, it could pass for a much more modern book as the sketches are timeless. I have a huge collection of sewing and dressmaking books but this one is the first one I have actually wanted to sit and read from front to back in one sitting. Most enjoyable to read, this book is so sensible and practical, it assumes no prior knowledge but is not in the slightest patronising. Early on in the book, Mrs Margolis has you practice sewing spirals and curves, for instance, using an unthreaded machine on paper with the shape drawn on the paper, then again beside the first line of stitching with no guideline drawn, and when you feel confident doing that faultlessly, you can progress to fabric. She then explains about shaping flat fabric to create 3d garments. She explains darts and seams and their correct use for shaping, but she doesn't stop at superficially explaining the concept in its most simplistic form, she goes into sufficient detail as to give the reader a thorough grasp of how to add, change, or remove fabric shaping in order to flatter one's individual body shape and ensure a garment has beauty and form rather than one that simply has enough room to move in or isn't too baggy! This section made sense in a way that other books haven't. Further in the book, Mrs Margolis covers in some depth the most basic dressmaking skills such as fitting problems and solutions, pressing PROPERLY, interfacing, pleats, hemming, setting in sleeves, facings, seam finishes and closures. You are left with a thorough grounding in the fundamental techniques you will need in order to move on to more advanced dressmaking, and will feel very capable of picking out and confidently sewing a pattern of average difficult rating, and what's more, you'll know how to make it fit you properly. Highly, highly recommended.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Really Helped A Novice!
*by M***E on 19 March 2021*

Finding my feet around a sewing machine, next step from making face masks. This book is a must for people learning about dressmaking. Great book and a great price!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Five Stars
*by S***A on 30 May 2016*

very happy with my book - everything seems to be very concise and informative. Thank you

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