--- product_id: 48390250 title: "Sew Many Dresses, Sew Little Time: The Ultimate Dressmaking Guide" price: "240.89 DT" currency: TND in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.tn/products/48390250-sew-many-dresses-sew-little-time-the-ultimate-dressmaking-guide store_origin: TN region: Tunisia --- # 219 mix & match dress combos Envelope with reusable templates Acid & toxin-free materials Sew Many Dresses, Sew Little Time: The Ultimate Dressmaking Guide **Price:** 240.89 DT **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 👗 Unlock your inner designer with every stitch—because your wardrobe deserves a glow-up! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Sew Many Dresses, Sew Little Time: The Ultimate Dressmaking Guide - **How much does it cost?** 240.89 DT with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.tn](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/48390250-sew-many-dresses-sew-little-time-the-ultimate-dressmaking-guide) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Smart Storage:** Templates come neatly packed in an attached envelope for easy access and organization. - • **Sustainable Crafting:** Acid and toxin-free materials keep your projects eco-friendly and safe. - • **Effortless Creativity:** Clear, step-by-step diagrams make sewing approachable—no couture degree required. - • **Skill-Boosting Design:** Ideal for intermediate sewers ready to elevate their wardrobe without overwhelm. - • **Endless Style Possibilities:** 219 perfectly aligned pattern combos let you design dresses that fit your unique vibe. ## Overview Sew Many Dresses, Sew Little Time is a versatile dressmaking guide featuring 219 mix-and-match patterns for skirts, bodices, sleeves, and necklines. Designed for intermediate sewers, it offers clear instructions and eco-friendly materials, with templates conveniently stored in an attached envelope. This book empowers you to create stylish, fitted dresses with ease, making it a must-have for anyone looking to build a personalized, sustainable wardrobe. ## Description With her 'choose-your-own-adventure' approach to sewing, Tanya Whelan offers an invaluable collection of patterns that empowers sewers to become designers. The trick is a set of patterns for 6 skirts and 8 bodices that line up perfectly at the waist, plus an additional 4 sleeve styles and 4 necklines. Tanya gives readers clear instructions and easy-to-follow step-by-step diagrams that allow them to use the enclosed pattern pieces to create up to 219 fitted dresses, including simple strapless designs, sheaths, and halter gowns. The book covers basic dress construction and altering techniques for women of all shapes and sizes.NOTE:Templates are inside an Envelope attached to the Book. Review: A unique type of book for intermediate sewers - So many books these days are aimed either at complete beginners or at more advanced tailors wanting to learn about time-consuming couture techniques involving much tacking, interlining, padding and hand-sewing. There’s very little on the market for sewers who have basic sewing skills and want to make clothes but who do not have the inclination or time to master advanced pattern-drafting skills. Such sewers just want the knowledge and confidence to make a variety of unfussy styles for their everyday wardrobe without having to buy multiple expensive patterns, most of which use very similar bodice blocks or skirt blocks. With commercially bought patterns, you’re often paying for a pretty picture, or unneeded trim suggestions, unaware that at least half of your pattern is already in duplicated elsewhere in your stash. Sometimes, all you want is the skirt pattern, but you have to pay for an unwanted jacket and trouser pattern as well — for the same price as this book! This book lets you make any kind of dress or skirt you want, with easy to follow instructions. You can mix and match bodices, skirts, sleeves and collars to achieve a huge number of different looks. The basic blocks fit together very cleverly without any extra input. But for the more advanced or adventurous sewers, there are instructions for how to adapt those basic pattern blocks to create any design you can dream up. The book gives you the basic recipes, which you can add to vary according to taste and skill. This is a practical “how to” book which not only demystifies the whole process of constructing a dress but also makes it much easier to understand than other books on the subject. It doesn’t blind you with science or go into massive technical detail — no need to! Just trace your pattern and get started as per the instructions. The finished garments modelled in the photos show the high quality that can be achieved from good fabric and relatively simple patterns — unlike the shapeless garments made out of plastic found in today’s rough and ready fast fashion. Review: LOVE LOVE LOVE!!! - I love this book so much! I'm only really a beginner, sewing for just under a year, so I would recommend it if you've had a little experience sewing. I've had the book for a couple of weeks and already made plenty of dresses from it. The only things to be wary of (and this could be my own fault) is when you do a pattern drafting of your own such as the circle skirt, she explains it but the way she explains it is much harder than it needs to be and, in my case, way way too big. For the skirt pattern alterations you just need to make sure that the pattern is just over 1/4 of your waist size (I made one particular skirt that wrapped round me twice). What I've found is I can read what she says and if it doesn't make sense to me or the pattern I've drafted is way too big, then I go and look it up myself, for example making the circle skirt, so it's not really an obstacle. I would highly recommend this book because it has all of the basics e.g. basic bodice (which she shows you how to turn into a blouse too) and basic skirt and then various necklines. Then you can get more complicated bodices and draft more interesting skirts. I feel with this book you can make almost any dress you see (I've already got a pinterest folder filled with dresses I want to make.) I also think it's a great way of advancing your skills at your own pace. I can't say how much I love this book enough, it's the best sewing book I've ever bought. ## Features - Suitable for arts and crafts projects - Acid and toxic free - Designed for easy usage and storage ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | 216,834 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 2,292 in Needlework & Fabrics | | Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 927 Reviews | ## Images ![Sew Many Dresses, Sew Little Time: The Ultimate Dressmaking Guide - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81FD6glMguL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A unique type of book for intermediate sewers *by C***E on 10 April 2024* So many books these days are aimed either at complete beginners or at more advanced tailors wanting to learn about time-consuming couture techniques involving much tacking, interlining, padding and hand-sewing. There’s very little on the market for sewers who have basic sewing skills and want to make clothes but who do not have the inclination or time to master advanced pattern-drafting skills. Such sewers just want the knowledge and confidence to make a variety of unfussy styles for their everyday wardrobe without having to buy multiple expensive patterns, most of which use very similar bodice blocks or skirt blocks. With commercially bought patterns, you’re often paying for a pretty picture, or unneeded trim suggestions, unaware that at least half of your pattern is already in duplicated elsewhere in your stash. Sometimes, all you want is the skirt pattern, but you have to pay for an unwanted jacket and trouser pattern as well — for the same price as this book! This book lets you make any kind of dress or skirt you want, with easy to follow instructions. You can mix and match bodices, skirts, sleeves and collars to achieve a huge number of different looks. The basic blocks fit together very cleverly without any extra input. But for the more advanced or adventurous sewers, there are instructions for how to adapt those basic pattern blocks to create any design you can dream up. The book gives you the basic recipes, which you can add to vary according to taste and skill. This is a practical “how to” book which not only demystifies the whole process of constructing a dress but also makes it much easier to understand than other books on the subject. It doesn’t blind you with science or go into massive technical detail — no need to! Just trace your pattern and get started as per the instructions. The finished garments modelled in the photos show the high quality that can be achieved from good fabric and relatively simple patterns — unlike the shapeless garments made out of plastic found in today’s rough and ready fast fashion. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ LOVE LOVE LOVE!!! *by L***A on 30 March 2016* I love this book so much! I'm only really a beginner, sewing for just under a year, so I would recommend it if you've had a little experience sewing. I've had the book for a couple of weeks and already made plenty of dresses from it. The only things to be wary of (and this could be my own fault) is when you do a pattern drafting of your own such as the circle skirt, she explains it but the way she explains it is much harder than it needs to be and, in my case, way way too big. For the skirt pattern alterations you just need to make sure that the pattern is just over 1/4 of your waist size (I made one particular skirt that wrapped round me twice). What I've found is I can read what she says and if it doesn't make sense to me or the pattern I've drafted is way too big, then I go and look it up myself, for example making the circle skirt, so it's not really an obstacle. I would highly recommend this book because it has all of the basics e.g. basic bodice (which she shows you how to turn into a blouse too) and basic skirt and then various necklines. Then you can get more complicated bodices and draft more interesting skirts. I feel with this book you can make almost any dress you see (I've already got a pinterest folder filled with dresses I want to make.) I also think it's a great way of advancing your skills at your own pace. I can't say how much I love this book enough, it's the best sewing book I've ever bought. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Extremely comprehensive guide to dressmaking and every pattern you might ever want! *by H***R on 23 September 2020* In buying this book, I shouldn't need to buy another dress pattern - ever! It has every type of neckline, sleeve and skirt style you might ever want in a dress, for any occasion, even a simple wedding dress, with instructions for lining too. The patterns come in 12 sizes, so cater for a range of body shapes. The editor clarifies the dressmaking process making it accessible for beginners and more experienced sewers alike. I expect tracing the patterns to create my basic designs and fit to require an up front investment, which you might expect if you want to achieve a good fit. However, the pattern pieces are squeezed onto 3 large sheets in black & white, and overlap, each with 12 size lines - I expect tracing to be tricky, although haven't tried this yet. My last point if that each of the sizes is provided with measurements, but it's not clear what ease is included, or what the finished sizes are. Again, this can be resolved by investing time to build a pattern based on personal measurements. None of this is a problem, but whereas the author points out many women used to make many of their own dresses, given today's busy working lifestyles, for me this will require patience and tenacity over several weekends. ## Frequently Bought Together - Sew Many Dresses, Sew Little Time: The Ultimate Dressmaking Guide - Gertie Sews Jiffy Dresses: A Modern Guide to Stitch-and-Wear Vintage Patterns You Can Make in a Day (Gertie's Sewing) - Gertie's Ultimate Dress Book: A Modern Guide to Sewing Fabulous Vintage Styles (Gertie's Sewing) --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.tn/products/48390250-sew-many-dresses-sew-little-time-the-ultimate-dressmaking-guide](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/48390250-sew-many-dresses-sew-little-time-the-ultimate-dressmaking-guide) --- *Product available on Desertcart Tunisia* *Store origin: TN* *Last updated: 2026-09-17*