title: Serger Secrets: High-Fashion Techniques for Creating Great-Looking Clothes (Rodale Sewing Book)
author: Mary Griffin
description: <b>Mary Griffin</b> lives in Dublin, Ohio, <b>Pam Hastings</b> lives in Wall, New Jersey, <b>Agnes Mercik </b>lives in Enfield, Connecticut, <b>Linda Lee Vivian</b> lives in Lennon, Michigan, and Barbara Weiland lives in Pownal, Vermont.
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  Publisher: Amy Marson
  
  
  Creative Director: Gailen Runge
  
  
  Editor: Liz Aneloski
  
  
  Technical Editors: Alison M. Schmidt
  
  
  Cover/Book Designer: Page + Pixel
  
  
  Production Coordinators: Joe Edge and Tim Manibusan
  
  
  Production Editors: Jennifer Warren
  
  
  Illustrator: Nicole Mallalieu and Aliza Shalit
  
  
  Photo Assistant: Mai Yong Vang
  
  
  Instructional photography by Nicole Mallalieu. Style photography by Lucy
  Glover and garment detail photography by Diane Pedersen of C&T Publishing,
  Inc., unless otherwise noted.
  
  
  Published by Stash Books, an imprint of C&T Publishing, Inc., P.O. Box 1456,
  Lafayette, CA 94549
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  INTRODUCTION
  
  
  I’ve always been a garment maker. I was a child who made doll clothes, a
  teenager who was obsessed with sewing my own clothes, a fashion student, a
  designer pattern maker, and then a pattern designer and teacher. I still make
  most of my own wardrobe, often using the same small selection of basic
  patterns that I adapt with differe