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This technique-driven book follows the entire process of clothing construction, including a section on the sewing machine and other tools/materials used, information on working with patterns and fitting, laying out the pattern pieces, cutting and marking, and on through every step of construction to the final button. Large, detailed photos guide you from start to finish and help give you a visual basis for learning.
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Search Press
Pub. Date
2021.
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"Inspired by the slow fashion movement that's taking the sewing world by storm, Erin Lewis-Fitzgerald has created a comprehensive guide to mending your own clothes in a way that combines creativity and sustainability. In Modern Mending, she demystifies mending and shares step-by-step instructions for a range of techniques, including stitching, darning, patching, needle felting and machine darning."--Amazon.com.
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Take secondhand finds from frumpy to fabulous with this guide by the Renegade Seamstress featuring resizing techniques and 19 refashioning projects.
With her award-winning blog, The Renegade Seamstress, Beth Huntington combines two of her favorite activities-thrifting and sewing-into the art of refashioning. In The Refashion Handbook, she shares 19 stylish projects, each showing you how to transform easy-to-find items into a better fit, a new design,...
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DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
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"Have you ever thrown good clothes away simply because you didn't know how to mend them? Have you got clothes that you can't bear to part with, but need a fresher look? Then this book is for you. With fast fixes and complete makeovers, Mend It, Wear It, Love It! has everything you need to mend and care for your clothes, and stitch your way to a more sustainable wardrobe"--
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National Geographic
Pub. Date
c2015
Description
Move over Project Runway. Get ready to chuckle your way through centuries of fashion dos and don'ts! In this humorous and approachable narrative, kids will learn about outrageous, politically-perilous, funky, disgusting, regrettable, and life-threatening creations people have worn throughout the course of human history, all the way up to the present day. From spats and togas to hoop skirts and hair shirts, why people wore what they did is an illuminating...
17) Old clothes
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This books looks at what happens to old clothes when you throw them in the trash, and then looks at alternative things that the reader could make out of them instead of throwing the old clothes away.
18) Beyond beautiful: a practical guide to being happy, confident, and you in a looks-obsessed world
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Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
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"A ... psychology-driven guide to building confidence in your body, clothes, beauty, and life in the era of toxic social media-driven beauty standards, ... this ... [book] provides ... answers to tricky questions like: * Why do I hate the way I look in pictures? * How can I stop comparing myself to all those beautiful people on social media? * Would I be happier if I lost weight? * Why is everyone else so stylish?"--
19) The hat
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1997
Description
When Lisa hangs her woolen clothes in the sun to air them out for winter, the hedgehog, to the amusement of the other animals, ends up wearing a stocking on his head.
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