Mother Pletsch's Painless Sewing With Pretty Pati's Perfect Pattern Primer

by Pati Palmer, Susan Pletsch

This sewing manual guides beginners through basic techniques and helps build the confidence needed to overcome common mistakes. From choosing fabrics and measuring fit to buying a sewing machine and redesigning a pattern, beginning sewers will find everything they need to create expert garments. Tips include efficient methods of cutting fabric that allow for quick seam assembly and creating a complete home sewing nook. Also included is information on caring for clothing to keep garments looking new.

Genres: Sewing

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 28, 1979

About the author

Pati Palmer is driving force behind the Palmer/Pletsch craft publishing company, of dozens of sewing books and how-to DVD’s and creator of eight Palmer/Pletsch sewing notion products, including PerfectFuse™ Interfacings. . Palmer has been designing for The McCall Pattern Co. since 1980, and Vogue prior to that. She has written the guidesheets for 250 patterns and includes fit and sewing tips. She is dubbed The McCall Pattern Company's "Fit Expert." She has been an educator for an interfacing company, a department store buyer, and has conducted seminars throughout North America and Australia. She currently teaches workshops in Portland, Oregon where she trains consumers and teachers.

Reviews

[Ursula Shelton]

This small paperback book was extremely helpful with several sewing techniques. It is full of advice on sewing solutions. I will keep this in my sewing library forever. I would recommend it to new sewers or folk who have dropped out of sewing temporarily. The content is straight forward and the authors have a trusted background in the sewing industry.

[Erika]

Drawings are adorable; picked up a vintage copy in collectible condition from 1975 for $.99. Clear, concise, and informative, this book gets right what so many how-to books do not--that the reader desires a quick and simple roadmap to age-old techniques. Kudos!