Girls Style Book: [Sewing Book, 24 Patterns]

An excellent addition to Tsukiori's adult pattern books, providing simple to sew dresses and separates which you can make as casual cool or fancy-schmancy as you like depending on the fabrics and trims you choose; all my young mum students love it. Suitable with some guidance for beginner sewers, the format is the same as Tsukiori's other offerings; full size pattern sheets to copy from, beautiful photographs of the finished clothes and clear diagrams with concise instructions for putting the garments together. However, this is not a 'how to sew' book, hence my caveat that newby sewers will require help. That said, with 2 dozen patterns it's great value for money and should inspire mums, grandmas and aunts to sew up a few garments with a bit more originality than chainstore staples.

Beautiful book, simple and very enjoyable and inspirational to return to sewing . Well worth it.

I have over a dozen Japanese sewing books for children in various languages (including six in English) and have found them to be incredibly easy to follow, even in languages I can't read just based on the diagrams. This particular book has a lot of very pretty dress and blouse patterns, although they are almost all short sleeves or sleeveless. There is a nice bolero pattern, though. It's worth getting just for the two bubble dresses. The pattern sheets are typical Japanese pattern sheets where you have to find your piece on the overlapping diagrams and trace it out, adding a seam allowance. A good acrylic quilting ruler and/or a seam gauge ruler makes this pretty easy to do. Other books try to cram the entire book's worth of patterns on one double-sided sheet. This one has three double sided sheets in a convenient paper envelope on the inside of the back cover, so the patterns are a lot more spaced out and easy to find. The sides of these sheets are labeled "Pattern sheet 1 - 6" and each one has a guide that lists exactly which pieces are on which side, so this also helps speed along the process. If Japanese sewing books' pattern tracing makes you nervous, this is a good one to begin with. Once I got the hang of pattern tracing, I actually found this method easier than dealing with either taped together PDF patterns or flimsy tissue paper ones, and I like that I can easily change the seam allowance or hems if I want to. The diagrams are simple and easy to follow with just a little sewing experience. If you need more instructions, the same author has come out with another book going into much more detail, but I am probably about an advanced beginner and have no problem following the patterns.

This sewing book is great, the instructions are in English, and there are patterns which are not hard to sew. When I have gotten sewing books from other countries before, there was limited English instructions and the patterns were hard to cut. I love the styles of dresses. This book is well worth buying for moms and grandmas. I love to sew children's clothing and was pleased with this purchase.

Libro muy recommendable con patrones fáciles de seguir y vestidos de tiro muy limpio. He cosido ya un par de patrones y quedan muy bonitos.