Practical Pattern Making: A Step-by-step Guide

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

good detail and instruction on pattern making.

Interesting book

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.

I intend to use this book as a reference tool to refer to while sewing.

Very unusual and creative designs and techniques for clothes making. This is a very hard book to acquire and well worth it if you appreciate the unusual Japanese couteur.