With the expert sewing techniques shared in this book, anyone can create home-made soft furnishings with a designer's flair.

This book teaches all the skills home sewers need to make beautiful, stylish projects. Shows how to make inspirational soft furnishings to enhance every room of the house. Comprehensive presentation of both basic and advanced techniques. Each method is explained with clear step-by-step instructions and photographs, then applied to a range of pretty contemporary projects. Beautifully styled and exquisitely detailed.

Provides general instructions for fitting, constructing, tailoring, and finishing women's, men's, and children's clothing and for making curtains and bedcoverings.

Couture Sewing Techniques presents the finest sewing techniques in the world as they're actually practiced in couture workrooms.

This companion workbook consists of project instructions and card stock worksheets in a 3-hole binder for convenient storage. Using these resources, students can store sewn sample garment details and record design information for design projects. The instructions for each project list the supplies and tasks needed to prepare the samples, plus clear cross references to sewing techniques in the textbook, Professional Sewing Techniques for Designers, 2nd Edition, and the supplementary half-scales patterns available to complete projects. Sample and Sewing worksheets are made of card stock for durable sample mounting and include space to attach sample and label sewing techniques, fabric type, fiber content, lining type, interfacing type, stitching order, stitch length, and notes on where to use the stitching technique on a garment and stitching mistakes. As students use the workbook to practice the sewing techniques, it becomes an ongoing resource and part of the design student's fashion library.