Excellent book. Shows readers how to draft a skirt pattern (easier than you think!) and sew it up. Several different styles, but the basics, including tiered, a-line, straight and wrap around are all covered. Someone with little or no sewing knowledge can follow this book. Also great for those that don't fit easily into commercially made patterns/ready made clothes, as you are drafting patterns to fit your own individual body size.

love this book. great idea, sewing without buying patterns. really easy to follow and inspiring

Gave me the confidence and enthusiasm to open up my mum's old sewing machine and get straight down to sewing. Really easy to read and understand, follows a very logical order, great easy-to-refer-back-to instruction pages and the patterns are so inspiring. Have sewn two skirts in two evenings this week. I don't know if I'll ever buy another skirt when I can now make my own one-offs. Kinda wish I really needed more skirts!

this book is very useful for beginners, it has all the basics and it's a great looking book

Great book with lots of easy to follow advice on how to make your own unique skirts without having to spend a fortune on a lot of different patterns.

Great! This book gave me permission to do what I always thought I could, make my own clothes without commercial patterns. This is what I wish my mother had told me, I have spent too long dealing with tissue paper!

I am just start to grow interest in sewing but I think this book is just what I wanted. The steps are so simple and the variety of skirts showed making this book so worthwhile (for this price) to have for a beginner like me. You can forget about the pattern making and start making your skirt right away!

Fantastic book. Loads of great tips. Instructions are easy to understand. Just made a wrap skirt, turned out beautifully, and competed in about 1 hour. This is my new favouriate book!!

I absolutley LOVE this book! It is full of amazing pictures and inspiring ideas for skirts. There are no patterns but the book takes you through making your own patterns based on your measurements! There are suggested fabrics for certain skirts and it teaches you how to do every thing involved including different waist-band types and hems. I have not tried any patterns yet because I can't choose which to start with! This summer I will definately give as many as I can a go.

Fantastic book. You do need a wee bit of sewing knowledge... but my school sewing sufficed. It is American so all the measurements are in inches, but I just wrote the metric equivalent alongside the first time I read it.