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The Sewing Book

Hardcover
$40.00 US
9.31"W x 11.19"H x 1.13"D   | 61 oz | 8 per carton
On sale Feb 04, 2025 | 352 Pages | 9780593964576

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Everything you need to know to make your own clothing and soft furnishings with a sewing machine

Demystify your sewing machine and get to grips with essential techniques with The Sewing Book. This bestselling guide covers over 300 techniques with illustrated step-by-step sequences, showing you how to create everything from seams and hems to darts, gathers, and collars.

Discover how to read a pattern and adapt designs to suit your measurements, get to grips with tools and materials, and find the best fabrics to suit whatever you want to make.

Complete with ten homeware and clothing projects to help you put your new-found skills to the test, The Sewing Book shows you everything you need to know, stitch by stitch.
Alison Smith is an editor at a weekly New England newspaper. She has been a teacher and head of a children's day-care center for many years. She lives in Rhode Island. View titles by Alison Smith

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Everything you need to know to make your own clothing and soft furnishings with a sewing machine

Demystify your sewing machine and get to grips with essential techniques with The Sewing Book. This bestselling guide covers over 300 techniques with illustrated step-by-step sequences, showing you how to create everything from seams and hems to darts, gathers, and collars.

Discover how to read a pattern and adapt designs to suit your measurements, get to grips with tools and materials, and find the best fabrics to suit whatever you want to make.

Complete with ten homeware and clothing projects to help you put your new-found skills to the test, The Sewing Book shows you everything you need to know, stitch by stitch.

Author

Alison Smith is an editor at a weekly New England newspaper. She has been a teacher and head of a children's day-care center for many years. She lives in Rhode Island. View titles by Alison Smith

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