Dressmaking Step by Step

Just what I wanted!! Classically styled complete wardrobe basics, no convoluted full sized patterns but scaled on grid (One can reproduce and enlarge manually or digitally), and minimim techniques (Way too redundant!) I absolutely love it! And the smaller scaled, light weight, and color of the book is wonderful! Thank You!

Alison is an expert couturier and teacher. This book tells you almost everything you need to know.

A seriously helpful book for those of us re-learning dressmaking skills. I refer to it often & it helps me every time!

Best birthday gift ever for my future seamstress

Really great photos. One of the clearest easy to understand sewing books I have found.

Very nice book

I have been trying to work on a project out of this book, but I can't get the patterns to work and the instructions are nowhere near clear enough to help me figure out my issues. The "in-book" patterns are so zoomed out as to be useless (I tried transferring by hand as they recommended, it was basically impossible), and when I printed out the patterns from their website they were the wrong size (the squares aren't 2"x2"). Furthermore, they leave out the necessary descriptions for several pieces--I wanted to put the pockets from one of the tutorial sections into one of the projects, but it wasn't explained well enough to follow. Very disappointed--I should have just gone out and bought a real pattern with cut-outs.

can't ask for more

great book

I love the photography and the explicit techniques used throughout the book. This book is an excellent must have in your library, whether you are a beginning or experienced dressmaker. There is something for everyone.This covers all the essential techniques in a way that is easy to understand.

Wife found it extremely instructive and well written.