Practical Pattern Making: A Step-by-step Guide

This book is really good for pattern design and making. Read the introduction on how to use them otherwise you might be a little lost. Get a good sketchbook and some really good pencils.

Who ever owned this book took excellent care of it! Love the book and I am excited about reading it and using it to make my own patterns. Great photos which is so helpful. Looks like every thing easily explained along with photos. Great buy! Love it.

Love this book, almost every page has a diagram/pattern for making patterns ,I am still reading this book ,,fantastic

Older style dress designs. From 1940-1970. Great info tho

I just received this book and I am REALLY REALLY DISAPPOINTED. I was expecting fashion designs, fitting, modern, ... It’s nothing like that. The Patterns are shapeless and far from flattering or elegant. It’s very dated and even my grand mother wouldn’t wear that stuff. The only pattern I can use is the pencil skirt, which I already made several times before. The cover of the book is promising but doesn’t reflect the inside at all. Sorry for the waste of money.

I got this book, I think on Kathleen Fassanella's recommendation, because it's the only one in English that presents German sleeve drafting, with a much better fit. It's great for that. Also perfectly fine for all the other kinds of basic blocks. Shows the usual vast array of how to achieve different designs, from the pedestrian to the eccentric. As usual, much of that will be unwearable in 10 years. But you know, meanwhile you'll know how to get good sleeve fit..

I am an intermediate-level sewist in my opinion and I have been drafting my own patterns for a while, but am mostly self-taught. I was looking for a book to explain the theory of patterning in-depth to increase my base knowledge: this is not that book. There are a few tips on measuring and basic drafting of a straight skirt sloper and basic adjustments like a swayback (although not very well worded and with only one picture to help you!). After that, the book shows you multiple complex, esoteric pieces that border on avant-garde and the patterns to go with them. Some of these pieces include things that are good to know how to pattern like ruffles and sleeves and the slash-and-spread technique, but the rest of these patterns are completely impractical. I will likely keep it only because it's not worth the trouble to send back, but I don't see myself using it very much at all.

Interesting book

So I read reviews that this was great. I absolutely hate it! I wish I hadn't bought it because honestly it's just awful. The styles inside are very off the charts couture and obscure that no on would ever want to actually make any of these. They show you how to make a pencil skirt sloper which I have read way easier tutorials that the one that is included in this book. As well, they show a sloper for a bodice but the book contains no sloper bodice. I'd have returned this book if it had been easier to do so. Don't buy this book many others are much better than this.

Good intro material. Easy to follow.

Very, very godd and helpful book. I make a lot of pattern from there ,is amazing. Thanks to the authors 👏 👏 👏

A book with amazing ways to alter basic patterns - worth studying.

This book is a practical explanation of how to create your own patterns to a specific body measurement, many diagrams of the shapes to be cut out are given and the sewer has to adjust these against the size they require. For someone with sewing experience I think that this book will inspire you to create your own original designs, but for me as an inexperienced sewer, there is too little guidance at times in the instructions.