No Sew Costumes For Adults

Prepare for Halloween or any costume party with this quick and easy reference to making great costumes, masks, and disguises for any occasion!Use the step by step instructions as your guide to make adorable costumes for creative play, theatre productions, & Halloween. These costumes are inexpensive to make and assembled from everyday tools and materials. No sewing machine required!Learn how to assemble capes and cloaks, hats, wings, masks, and more in just minutes. Instructions for face painting... [Read More]

This beautiful, instructive book from The Great British Sewing Bees Jenniffer Taylor shows you how to make and adapt your own clothes without the need for shop-bought patterns. Using Jenniffer's fun and imaginative ideas, this book will teach you how to get started transforming unloved items of clothing into new and exciting outfits; how to customise clothes with doilies, tassels, tie-dyeing and block printing; and finally how to measure yourself, create patterns and make clothes from scratch, i... [Read More]

500 costume ideas for kids, teens, adults, and pets. (This book is safe for work and does not include any inappropriate costume ideas, but hey it’s a free country if you want to dress up as sexy Bigfoot you can do that.)

As an early-twentieth-century English artist with an interest in historical subjects, Talbot Hughes began collecting clothing for accuracy in his paintings—and the pursuit grew into a labor of love. His magnificent costume collection was eventually displayed in Harrod's and has become a permanent part of the collection of the venerable Victoria and Albert Museum in London. In this well-researched guide, Hughes traces the evolution of English fashions from the grass-cloth wraps of prehistoric t... [Read More]

Become an expert at sewing without spending weeks trying to learn how! (Even if you're a complete beginner)Imagine going from an absolute beginner to expert at sewing in just a few days.What if you became so good at sewing that you could make your own clothes, fix pretty much anything, and all of this only took a few days of practice?Multi-time best selling arts & crafts author and influencer, Kitty Moore, presents the ultimate book for all beginners trying to learn how to sew. After years of... [Read More]

Bring your cosplay dreams to life with your own two hands! The Best Cosplay Tutorial Guide Ever! Get ready to impress ordinary mortals with your superhuman costume-making skills. You can do it no matter what your experience level with this, the first full step-by-step technique book on cosplay--with no sewing! Internationally known cosplayer Kamui Cosplay (a.k.a. Svetlana Quindt) shows you how to easily create elaborate costumes and successful props out of items available at your local arts and ... [Read More]

Learning how to sew has never been simpler! Enjoy this beginner's guide that takes you by the hand like a personal instructor and teaches you how to sew using hand stiches as well as sewing machines. Filled with detailed descriptions of materials and tools, the easy step-by-step instructions for all the basic sewing techniques will have you creating projects like aprons, pillows, and even pants and shorts in no time. Five simple projects will introduce sewing skills like hems, seams, balancing t... [Read More]

Sew chic and original skirts with this stylish DIY sewing book.Stylish Skirts allows you to create simple yet stylish skirts that look and feel great—at a fraction of the cost of store-bought fashion. With this sewing book, there's no end to the kinds of skirts you can create to match your body shape, your taste in fabrics and colors, and your mood (not to mention your favorite tops, shoes and accessories)! The instructions and diagrams are a snap to follow and provide a huge variety of styles... [Read More]

This DIY sewing book presents a fabulous new collection of lightweight wraps that are easy to sew and look fantastic! Stylish Wraps Sewing Book provides five free full-sized patterns that can be used to create 22 timeless wraps to keep the chill off—and look great in the process. All the sewing designs can be made in a few hours for a fraction of what you would pay in a store. And it is easy to mix and match different fabrics and styles to suit your wardrobe and mood. Here are just a few of t... [Read More]