Have you recently noticed that your favorite sweater or dress has started to show some signs of wear and tear, but you are reluctant to just throw it out?
Do you have a particular affinity to certain items of your wardrobe and you'll do anything to try and fix them or keep them looking sharp?
Are you looking to become more environmentally friendly, and are you trying to move away from "fast fashion" and instead focus on re-using old items of clothing?
Or are you just tired of spending more and more dollars on new clothes, and instead you want to make sure you get full value of your money from your purchases?
This book will help solve all of these problems and more
Inside Pattern Fitting and Alteration for Beginners I will show you how to simply and easily transform a piece of clothing that you may have previously considered throwing away or donating to charity.
I will teach you all of the basic skills that you need to breathe new life into your wardrobe, and provide you with a whole new perspective of what is possible with the clothes that you have at your disposal.
Unlike some books, rather than just telling you how to alter clothing, I will also offer you explanatory descriptions, step-by-step guides, and clear illustrations. These tools will make it even easier to follow and provide you with excellent results, with much less trial and error
I will offer you a range of different information regarding the different tools, equipment, and accessories you can use, choosing the right patterns for you, how to pattern fit, and so much more.
And those are just some of the great topics covered in this book
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New Hope for American Art is the most comprehensive book ever published on artists from, and surrounding, the New Hope Art Colony (also known as the Pennsylvania Impressionists). This book, with its 612 pages and over 1,000 color plates of artwork include biographies of 165 individual Pennsylvania Impressionists and New Hope Modernists as well as artists from the Philadelphia Ten, a pioneering group of women all educated at Philadelphia art schools.
In this book, you'll find biographies and artwork from such artists as:
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New Hope for American Art was authored, designed and published by James M. Alterman, an expert in the field of Pennsylvania Impressionist and Modernist painting. A longtime collector and owner of two fine art galleries, Alterman wanted to create a user-friendly book intended not only to educate collectors and enthusiasts about this art but to help train one's eye. The book offers valuable tips on how to avoid common mistakes often experienced by new collectors drawn from the author's personal experiences as a collector and fine art dealer.