Getting started -- Equipment -- Fit -- Slopers -- Alterations for patterns and blocks -- The sloper shortcut to fast pattern alterations -- Making a muslin -- Seam allowances -- Fabric -- Interfacing -- Laying up and cutting out fabric -- Tips and techniques -- Awl -- Backstitching -- Bias binding -- Buttons, buttonholes, and lappage -- Chain stitching -- Collars -- Corners -- Crack stitching -- Crowding -- Cuffs -- Darts -- Hems -- Kick pleats, slits, and vents -- Lapel -- Lining a skirt or vest -- Matching seams -- Mitered corners -- Pintucks -- Plackets -- Pockets -- Pressing -- Seam finishes using a sewing machine -- Sighting -- Sleeves -- Spaghetti tubing -- Topstitching -- Understitching -- Waistbands -- Yoke -- Zippers -- Putting it all together -- Hallmarks of a quality garment -- Blouse -- Pants -- Skirt -- Vest -- Buyer's guide -- Glossary.
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