I’m so happy you all enjoyed my last post on beginner sewing books. I hope that if you’re just beginning to sew, or thinking about starting, that you found something to help you!
As promised, I’ve compiled a list of intermediate/more advanced sewing books and books on pattern drafting together with my friend Casey, that I think you will find really helpful if you already know how to sew and are looking for more challenges, to up your skill or want to delve into more complex techniques.
Get it here:: Couture Sewing Techniques
Get it here:: High Fashion Sewing Secrets from the World’s Best Designers
Get it here:: The Art of Manipulating Fabric
Get it here:: Professional Sewing Techniques for Designers
Get it here:: Fit for Real People
Once you get really serious, you may want to learn how to draft your own patterns. In my opinion, this is where things get really exciting!
Get it here:: Patternmaking for Fashion Design
Get it here:: How to Make Sewing Patterns
Get it here:: Metric Pattern Cutting for Women’s Wear
Get it here:: How to Use, Adapt, and Design Sewing Patterns
Get it here:: Patternmaking for a Perfect Fit
I really hope you’ve been enjoying my Becoming a Designer series!! Check out the rest of the posts so far here - and lasts weeks list of recommended beginner sewing books!
Also, thank you so much to Casey for helping me write this article – please make sure you visit her over at her amazing blog Elegant Musings! XOXO
Thank you again, Megan, for asking me to add my two cents in this series!!! :) I loved reading about your favorite books; of course now my Amazon wishlist is bulging… haha! (Good thing Christmas is less than 6 months away, right? rofl.)
Great selection of books, Ladies. Thank you so much.
What a great selection!
another great book for pattern drafting is Cal Patch Design it Yourself Colthes, really helpful…
I was wondering if you could write about the grading process on your line, how you determine the sizes, how was that process when you started your line..
Love your blog!
Thanks Meg, this has been very informative. You have listed some great books here of which I own several and couldn’t agree more. I think I’ll have to go check out some of the pattern drafting ones.
Hi Megan
great blog and awesome compilation of interesting books!
Maybe you would like to know that the pattern system M.Mueller & Son from Germany has published one of their renowned pattern drafting books in English language. It is available on my website
http://www.suncoastcustom.ca
Thanks, Sabine
Hi Megan, just wanted to thank you (and the inestimable Casey) for this list, if I haven’t already! I’ve made good use of my library. I’m working through Claire Shaeffer and McCunn right now and hope to get Pattern Drafting for Fashion Design through ILL soon! It’s given me a huge confidence boost– it’ll be hard work, but I’m starting to believe that pattern drafting isn’t magic. It’s a skill I can learn.
Thank you again and again!
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