Complete Book of Sewing Techniques: More Than 30 Essential Sewing Techniques for You to Master

by Wendy Gardiner

Overview

For Great-Great Grandma, sewing clothing for the family was a necessity. In today’s ready-to-wear society, it’s a creative and rewarding personal choice. Packed full of information on basic sewing techniques, this book provides an ideal introduction for beginning sewers as well as a useful reference for those who already have sewing skills. Learning how to sew has never been simpler, with step-by-step photographs and friendly advice from internationally accredited sewing expert Wendy Gardiner. Along with clear instructions on everything from making seams, hems, sleeves, and collars to attaching linings and zippers, Wendy includes comprehensive information on fabrics, threads, needles and other equipment. Her clear directions ensure that even beginners will get great results. With the techniques you learn in The Complete Book of Sewing you’ll soon be stitching amazing clothes with skill and confidence. Inside The Complete Book of Sewing Beautifully illustrated, comprehensive guide to all aspects of sewing, from dressmaking to soft furnishings. Covers sewing techniques from hand stitching and hemming to making collars and sleeves, adding darts for shaping, and inserting zips and buttonholes. Includes comprehensive information on fabrics, threads, needles and other equipment. Step-by-step photographs and color illustrations. Perfect for beginning sewers with no previous experience.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781620082379
Publisher:	CompanionHouse Books
Publication date:	09/26/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	204,695
File size:	28 MB
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About the Author

Internationally accredited sewing machine expert Wendy Gardiner has been editor of leading sewing magazines, Vogue Patterns, Sewing World and Sew Hip and has produced major books and DVDs on sewing, which she passionately promotes as a fun, affordable hobby. Wendy also teaches, runs creative sewing weekends and is a regular guest presenter on shopping channels Ideal World and Create&Craft TV.

Interviews

If you have any interest in sewing and don’t know where to start, this book should be your first purchase. —Mad Book Love

Editorial Reviews

11/06/2017
Gardiner, editor of Vogue Patterns, organizes the basics of sewing techniques into a photo-heavy encyclopedia (minus the thumb indexes) for beginner sewers and experts alike. Gardiner begins with the essentials: she addresses what to look for in a sewing machine and how different machines work, and proceeds to discuss types of fabrics, threads, needles, and other notions. There’s also pattern and measurement advice. She covers the sewing techniques of hand and machine stitching, plus “corners and curves” and seams. Then her attention shifts to the style techniques of hemming and facing. She covers darts and tucks, waistbands, cuffs, and fasteners (zippers and buttonholes); she teaches how to gather and ruffle and how to thread elastic through a casing. At the end, she shifts from sewing clothes to sewing soft furnishings like curtains and blinds. Along the way, among lists of types of fabrics and machines, she tucks in Heloisean hints (“use a seam ripper to open buttonholes”) and helpful tips such as how to appliqué. Although her introductions are bloated with glittering generalities (e.g.,“there is a huge range of sewing machines available today”), her main content is needle-sharp. (Oct.)

Publishers Weekly

Wendy includes useful information of fabrics, threads, needles and other equipment. Her clear directions and the helpful pictures will help you in your sewing adventure! —Tea Rose Home

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