Craft Focus - December 2020/January 2021 (Issue 82)

Dabble in dressmaking Be a fashion icon and make your own clothes at home; it’ an achievement, a talking point and a fast-growing trend!  CYGNET YARNS Seriously Chunky Metallics is a shiny addition to Cygnet’s signature Seriously Chunky range. This luxurious yarn comes in a gorgeous range of shimmering metallic shades. With a beautiful drape, this yarn lends itself perfectly to both garments and homewares. +44 (0)1274 743 374 www.cygnetyarns.com GROVES Groves supplies so many Milward essentials for making clothes at home. Every dress maker needs a top-quality tailors’ marking chalk; and a tape measure with both metric and imperial scale. +44 (0)1844 258 100 www.grovesltd.co.uk PAVILION BOOKS Fashion illustrator and lecturer Frances Moffatt provides suggestions and half-filled pages of drawings and doodles for you to continue in Fashion Doodling and Colouring. It inlcudes sections on designing your own fashion blog, creating your own festival fashions, styling street style models from across the globe, adding bling to celebrity pets and creating your own fashion patterns and prints. This book is packed full of fun exercises to get the creative juices going and bring out the fashionista in you. Unleash your creative potential by adding colour, patterns and glitter to these line drawings to make them unique to your style. Whether it’s a simple colouring-in piece, or a more considered drawing, the suggestions offer something for everyone and encourage you to make the book about your own style. sales@pavilionbooks.com www.pavilion bo oks.com 59 MAKING CLOTHES AT HOME