How to Make Sewing Patterns solves the mysteries of pattern drafting with easy stepbystep instructions and clear line drawings that show how to create customfit garments in a wide range of designs. The books detailed instructions on measuring and fitting include doityourself photographs as well as directions for creating custom dress forms. Don McCunn has certainly mastered pattern drafting and fitting a wide range of bodies. Whether or not you have taken pattern drafting in a class this book is a good reference in a very readable style. I especially liked the exacting instructions on taking measurements on the body and the solution for side seams which are not perpendicular to the floor. Sandra Betzina the power behind power sewing. Author of 10 books a syndicated column for 37 years and a host of her own show on HGTV for 6 years. Beyond the impressive range of material in How to Make Sewing Patterns is the authors obvious concern that readers understand what they are doing and why. There are many helpful tips throughout the book some quite clever and unexpected. The section on drafting a sloper contains excellent explanations of the various body contours measuring and fitting. Text drawings and photos of the human body from every angle illustrate the various interrelated contours and just how a pattern accommodates them. He even gives detailed instructions on how to measure and fit yourself. Threads Magazine McCunns book dispels the mysteries of pattern drafting an area which was once the province of the couturier. A doityourself text in which lessons build upon one another this book provides detailed guides to creating patterns. Library Journal The most readable pattern drafting book Ive found. The drawings are the simplest line drawings possible but executed with concise purpose. Whole Earth Catalog Donald McCunn leads the beginning seamstress or the advanced into pattern drafting via a thorough introduction. He shows that drafting is easy if each