Just Pockets: Sewing Techniques and Design Ideas
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by: Pattricia Moyes
Topics include: foldback facing, garment front piece, garment side front, pocket underlay, foldback area, linen stay tape, inset opening, unlined patch pocket, foldback line, basted placement line, check that the lip, mock pocket, untrimmed seam allowance, waistband extension, stay stitching lines, attachment seams, lip inset, stuffed lips, pocket placement, pocketing material, garment side seams, draw the end lines, foldover flap, two stitching lines, buttonhole pocket
Book Description:
Just Pockets -- Pat Moyes -- Techniques and variations on pocket designs. Hands stuffed down into deep welt pockets of a trench coat, collar turned up, hat pulled low -- images of Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca. Granddad pulling his gold watch from a small vest pocket as his excited grandchildren look on. A three-year-old playing in her favorite skirt -- a blue chambray circle skirt with two patch pockets trimmed with eyelet and pink ribbon roses. Wrapping a coin in a tissue and tucking it into your pants pocket before going to the movies. Aunt Julie's lace-edged hanky draping from the breast pocket of her navy linen suit. Pockets -- places to put your hands and your things, details that enhance design. I think pockets are wonderful. Start noticing pocket details and construction, and you'll think so too. Pockets can be simple additions to easy-to-make garments, adding just the right touch of style. Pockets can enhance great garments -- where would haute couture be without its remarkable seaming that wondrously ends at a great pocket, its oversize, oddly sized, or unbelievably placed pockets? Couture's super tailors manage to coax pockets into the most sensuous fabrics. And we, the home sewers and the clothes lovers, want the very same pockets in the very same fabrics in our closets. If we can't shop for the clothes, we shop for the details, usually from top-of-the-line ready-to-wear (why waste time copying what's already been copied?), then apply those same details to our own creations. Of course we want our pockets constructed as expertly as ready-to-wear (or maybe better), so creating those great pocket details at home becomes the challenge. I believe a poorly sewn pocket is the mark of a home-sewn garment -- the kind of garment that screams HOMEMADE! I don't want any of those in my closet -- and you shouldn't either! So this book is about great pockets and about making great pockets. Pocket construction in general requires a range of skills and attention to detail, and my goal was to combine the best how-to information with the best pocket styles -- giving you a single sourcebook for all the great pockets. Whether you are relatively new to sewing or an advanced sewer, Just Pockets has something for you. If you only open a book for a cursory check of the step-by-step instructions, the clearly detailed drawings will provide you with a handy outline. The fun and fabulous pocket styles included are to inspire you to try something different. For the beginner and intermediate sewer, Just Pockets will be your guide -- clear instructions for lots of pockets are here for you to follow, to build your skills for successful pocket constructions. As the world of pockets unfolds in the following pages, I encourage you to try something new, try something harder, don't make what the pattern dictates -- explore the possibilities of a new pocket style. You'll find that you'll be as fascinated about pockets as I am.
Techniques and variations on pocket designs -- There are endless variations of a basic pocket, and now you can learn how to make some of the most popular. With detailed instructions, step-by-step illustrations, and full-color photos for many styles, this book will give you everything you need to know to make magnificently detailed pockets. Whether you want a double-lip inset, a sheer patch, a fringed flap, or a hidden ticket pocket, you will learn how to get the perfect results that are the sign of professional-quality sewing. Whatever your skill level you will find useful information, including how to: make a template and use it add a bias welt have two pockets match in size and placement work with sheer material and be proud of the seams alter a pattern to add the pocket that suits you confidently make a perfect double-lip inset pocket with flap add designer details to your own clothing
My favorite reference book on pockets -- I keep this book always in reach when I sew pockets. It is my favorite reference book as it provides instructions on an amazingly large number of differently styled pockets: CHAPTER 1: PATCH POCKETS including unlined patch pockets, lined patch pockets, patch pockets in sheer fabrics, patch pockets with foldover flaps and designer patch pockets. CHAPTER 2: IN-SEAM POCKETS including side-seam pockets, slant-front pockets, waistband concealed in a slant-front pocket and designer in-seam pockets. CHAPTER 3: INSET POCKETS including basic inset pockets and variations of the basic inset pocket. CHAPTER 4: HIDDEN POCKETS including constructing a welt/flap, breast pocket, ticket pocket, coin pocket and zippered welt pocket. This book is very well written (as all the other books I've read from Taunton press). The instructions are clear, the use of diagrams and photos are very useful and I think this book will be of great help whether one is relatively new to sewing or a more advanced sewer. The ideas on each type of pocket at the end of each chapter are a challenge and an inspiration for any sewer looking out to create beautiful garments. I highly recommend it!
Reviews:
Good Book To Have!! -- This book offers a variety of ways to design pockets. Unlike like the traditional "patch pockets", you need this book especially if you desire new ideals!! Contrary View -- I was expecting some more creativity. Ms. Moyes delivers with instructions on lots of basic pocket styles, but I was hoping for some exotic couture stuff. She gives directions on how to make a difficult curved welt pocket, which I've seen in couture, and shaped facings covering a pocket. If you're looking for a gallery with a lot of neat-o ideas: it's not in this book. Otherwise, it gives straightforward advice on straightforward pockets.