Nicole Mallalieu Knihy

Internationally recognized handbag designer and founder of YOU SEW GIRL!,Nicole Mallalieu, shares her professional secrets, shortcuts, and techniques for sewing fashionable bags.

The book offers a hands-on approach to customizing garment patterns by making small alterations, such as modifying pockets or changing necklines. It provides step-by-step instructions accompanied by clear illustrations and photos, making it accessible for both beginners and experienced dressmakers. Readers will gain the skills to transform their favorite patterns into unique creations, empowering them to become their own fashion designers.

First published to huge acclaim during the war it describes, Very Ordinary Seaman relates-with humanity, humour and the authority of experience-lower- deck life in the British navy, from basic training to service on a destroyer protecting a convoy to Arctic Russia, a mission from which many did not return.