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Unlock your closet's potential with simple, stylish wardrobe refashions you can sew at home. DIY-style blogger Suzannah Hamlin Stanley provides her unique blend of basic alterations and step-by-step restyling tutorials to give you a wardrobe you'll truly love! Express your style and save money by embellishing and combining garments into newfound faves. No sloppy shortcuts here-learn how to alter sweaters, pants, and everything in your wardrobe for...
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English
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"This is a comprehensive how-to book about altering commercial patterns to customize the fit to one's own body before cutting out fabric and sewing the garment. Poor fit is the number one reason many sewers get discouraged with garment sewing. Author Sarah Veblen guides the reader through the steps of sewing a muslin test garment, fine-tuning the fit by pinning the garment to mold perfectly to the wearer's body, marking the adjustments, and then transferring...
Author
Publisher
Storey Pub
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
223 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Don?t hide that patch, make it a bold, beautiful embellishment! Repair holes with bright thread and a creative darning stitch; revive a stained shirt with fun embroidery! In Mend It Better, popular craft blogger Kristin M. Roach puts a new spin on mending by adapting traditional techniques for today?s crafty sewers. With detailed photography to show each step, she teaches a wide range of patching, darning, and repair stitches using both hand and machine...
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Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes a variety of different clothes that children wear, such as a soft sweatshirt, a frilly dress, and a baseball cap.
7) The hat
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
540L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 x 27 cm
Language
English
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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.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 025 min.) : digital, stereo., sound, color
Language
English
Description
A Clothing & Textiles 101 overview of the elements of fabric, this curriculum-based program introduces students to the basic differences between natural and synthetic fibres, the primary types of fibers, and how their qualities - from shape and origin to size and luster - make them unique, influence clothing appearance and factor into comfort. Learn why fibre properties determine how we use particular fabrics. (Learning Seed, USA)
10) Chamelia
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Language
English
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Chamelia loves to stand out and often wears outrageous outfits, but eventually she learns to shine in other ways.
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English
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Presents a guide to working with recycled materials such as linen, burlap and wool. Shows 28 projects with deconstruction techniques, sewing tips and information about their environmental impact. Projects include totes, lunch sack, scarf, onion sack, skirt, bin and many more.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When the Pirate Council tells Backbeard that he must stop wearing colorful clothing and look more fearsome, he decides to quit being a pirate and get a job on shore, if only he can find work that matches his particular skills.
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English
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Megan Nicolay revolutionized the T-shirt. She repurposed it, reinterpreted it, reinvented it-and created the #1 craft book in the nation, Generation T, which continues to dominate. Now she explores new ways to slash a tee, scrunch a tee, and sew a tee with “Generation T: Beyond Fashion”. A collection of 120 projects for every occasion, it takes the humble yet ever-malleable tee in dozens of new directions, from baby gifts to pet accessories, stuff...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 17 min.) : digital, stereo., sound, color
Language
English
Description
Like it or not, on the job, appearance matters! But what's the right look for YOUR workplace? Or your NEXT one? Learn about the four levels of business dress, tips on accessories and grooming, and how to build an affordable wardrobe.
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