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Want to start making your own activewear? Or perhaps you are already into sewing your workout clothes, but are ready to step up your sewing game and achieve more professional results? Then this book is for you! Sewing Activewear: How to make your own professional-looking athletic wear takes you through all the fundamentals and then move you to the next level. So that you will be fully equipped and empowered to create your own workout wardrobe–that is both functional and stylish.
Sewing Activewear is the ultimate sewing guide for creating your own workout clothes that are both functional and stylish. Fully illustrated step-by-step tutorials covering everything from beginner techniques and professional fashion industry methods. Comprehensive activewear fabric chapter and extensive guides to the best seams on every household sewing machine. And plenty more!
CONTENT
Fabrics and notions for activewear
- Fabric types
- Stretch, weight and compression
- Activewear fabrics and the environment
Notions
Thread
Elastic
Needles
Seams for activewear
- Seam guides for every machine
Seams for hemming (incl. large chapter on coverstitching)
- Sewing machine hems
- Coverstitch hemming
Flatlock seams
- Flatlock on a serger
Projects (over 25 fully illustrated tutorials)
- Sleeves with thumbholes - Fold-over elastic
Interviews
- Jalie
Sheila Powell
Beverly Johnson
Fehr Trade
Gwyn Gyldenege
Christopher Hansson
Speciality Outdoors
