building the pattern – named
€35,95
building the pattern – named
€35,95
BUILDING THE PATTERN named
Sizes: EUR 34-50 | US 2-18 | UK 6-22 |Building the Pattern – sew your own capsule wardrobe offers a modern approach to dressmaking, celebrating clothes that truly fit your shape.
Designed for the fashion-conscious, this book equips you with the tools to create a coherent capsule wardrobe – complete with an enticing collection of 20 timeless garments that are easy to make, wear and combine.
Taking you beyond the patterns, Building the Pattern offers expert advice on how to achieve the perfect fit, alter the designs to suit your shape and tips on adding your own personal twist. Improve your sewing expertise as you work through the book – with new techniques introduced project-by-project – and use the six essential building blocks to choose, customise and adapt the designs to create a variety of beautiful clothes to fit your figure.
From best-selling authors and Finnish sewing duo behind the indie pattern label Named, Laura and Saara Huhta will build your sewing repertoire and give you the confidence to further design, alter and modify your makes.
Projects: Sorja top, dress, wrap dress and wrap skirt; Eloisa tunic, sweater, circle skirt dress and mermaid skirt dress; Luova blouse, dress and tunic; Heleä pencil dress, peplum top and mermaid dress; Varma trousers, shorts and jumpsuit; Kuulas bomber jacket and blazer; Jalo bag.
Language: English
Includes 6 full-size pattern sheets
Print-at-home PDF: Download URL included in the book
Copy-shop PDF: Download URL included in the book
- Seam allowances included
- Includes illustrated instructions
- Overlapping pattern layout
- PDF patterns are layered and non-overlapping
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This is a true story. from the girls from named –
In September 2012 we, Saara and Laura, sat down on bus number 72 to go and have lunch with our parents in north-eastern Helsinki. Six months earlier, Saara had completed a degree in fashion and clothing and Laura had graduated as a shoe designer around the same time. We both worked with fashion and clothing for different companies, but neither of us were excited by our career paths or felt that our work lined up with our values. On that half-hour bus journey, we immersed ourselves in talk about work. What would we do if we could do whatever we wanted?
We have dabbled in various handicrafts all our lives – from the moment our mother taught us to sew as children . Sewing clothes, in particular, caught our interest. Our solution, therefore, was clear – we wanted to sew and, at the same time, make the sewing hobby, and clothes making in particular, interesting, exciting, and attainable for as many people as possible!
When we arrived, we drafted the business plan of our future company in one sitting. Since that moment, we have worked towards our dream every day. We fought through the bureaucracy jungle of founding our business while simultaneously designing and producing our first pattern collection. On the first day of August 2013, we opened our online shop and launched the First Named collection. In the four years that followed, we launched eight new pattern collections at six-month intervals, and in 2018, our first sewing book, Breaking the Pattern, was published. and in 2021 building the pattern was published
Today, we are still – or actually more than ever – excited about what we do and, especially, what lies ahead!
You can find more out more about Named on their website
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