Teach Yourself Stitch Craft and Dressmaking Volume VII: Important Tips Before Stitching - Estimation of cloth and other tips

📖 The Scoop

 Table of Contents 

Introduction 
Cloth Width 
Tips before you go out to buy fabric 
Performance Test for Fabric 
Stripes and Plaids 
Knit Fabrics 
Transferring Pattern Markings 
Interlining/Underlining 
How to Attach Underlining 
Garment Lining 
Interfacing 
Interlining 
Shaping Material for Knits 
Formula for Requirement of Cloth Estimated on Measurements 
Simple frock 
Underwear 
Half pants – Shorts for children. 
Shirts for Children 
Full Pants 
Shirt 
Appendix 
Washable Fabric 
Un – Washable Fabric 
Conclusion 
Author Bio 
Publisher 

Introduction 

In the books published previously in this series, you learn how to do the drafting of patterns, as well as some model training patterns. However, there is one important point which you will want to know all about how you can get the right amount of cloth to fit your particular measurements. 

Apart from setting out your cut cloth in the layout, this book is going to tell you all about the required length of cloth, which means that you are keeping well within your budget. The remaining piece of cloth which you may have bought without estimating it properly, could go to waste. You may also find yourself buying less cloth beforehand, and once the measurement has been done, back you go back to the shop, trying desperately hard to match the color, fabric, and print. But alas, and alas, that print was so popular that everyone in the city and their sisters, cousins, and aunts have bought that fabric. 

So what do you do? Either skimp on the fabric and instead of a maxi skirt you have a miniskirt. You have a sleeveless blouse or a skimpy blouse instead of a long sleeved tunic.

Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction / Clothing & Dress (fancy, right?)