Skills and techniques for the fashion-minded sewist! Award-winning designer and stylist Joi Mahon shares her love of sewing and fashion design in "Designer Joi's Fashion Sewing Workshop." Whether you're new to sewing or want to sharpen your skills, you'll find solid foundational information for learning and mastering sewing techniques including seaming, draping, measuring, making a pattern and more. Throughout the book, you'll find fun, hands-on exercises to help reinforce a new technique. The best part? Each exercise results in a finished piece! Divided into sections including Design and Inspiration, Fashion Sketching, The Design Process and Sewing Terminology and Tools, "Designer Joi's Fashion Sewing Workshop" makes sewing fun, easy and approachable--while still achieving amazing results. Award-winning designer and stylist Joi Mahon shares her love of sewing and fashion design in "Designer Joi's Fashion Sewing Workshop." SELLING POINTS: ? Covers all the elements for learning to sew true fashion--design principles, basic illustration, creating story boards, basic draping, basic pattern making, and the construction techniques every budding designer needs to know ? Includes drafting tools--5 cardboard slopers used to create endless patterns ? Skills and techniques for the fashion-minded sewist!
