Girl with a Sewing Machine

This beautiful, instructive book from The Great British Sewing Bee’s Jenniffer Taylor shows you how to make and adapt your own clothes without the need for shop-bought patterns. Using Jenniffer's fun and imaginative ideas, this book will teach you how to get started transforming unloved items of clothing into new and exciting outfits; how to customise clothes with doilies, tassels, tie-dyeing and block printing; and finally how to measure yourself, create patterns and make clothes from scratch, including dresses, skirts, tops, trousers and a coat.

The book is packed with all the tricks of the trade that Jenniffer has learned along her sewing journey, and it will get you started on your own #sewingrevolution!

Book Contents

Introduction
My sewing journey
Basic sewing kit
Sourcing clothes
Getting started
Pincushion
Scarf top
Jumper gloves and snood
Festival pouch
Customising your clothes 
Doily detail on a T-shirt             
Block printing and tie-dyeing on a shirt and jeans
Tassel T-shirt
Shirt reverse
Making clothes from scratch
Measuring yourself
Carousel skirt
Batwing dress
Kimono dress
Cross-back top
Sumer top with box pleats
Blanket coat
Gilet variation
Dunga dress
Dunga variation
Wrap trousers
Glossary
Index