New Complete Guide to Sewing (Readers Digest) | Editors of Reader's Digest

New Complete Guide to Sewing (Readers Digest) | Editors of Reader's Digest | Extremely Comprehensive Sewing Guide

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	New Complete Guide to Sewing (Readers Digest) Editors of Reader's Digest Readers Digest, 2002 - 384 pages average customer review:based on 27 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

The best-selling comprehensive, practical, and inspiring sewing reference, now fully revised and updated. Clear, simple instructions by sewing experts, and thousands of illustrations and diagrams show each stage of the sewing process. This guide is the standard stitch-and-seam reference book for both beginner and seasoned sewers.

The ultimate sewing resource

This is a big, thick, heavy book, and not exactly something you can tuck in a corner while you work. It's large and wide, though, and lies flat fairly easily, which helps to make it easier to look at while working. It includes an absolutely amazing amount of detail meant to get you from rank beginner through finely tailored clothing, and honestly I expect this book to still be useful to me in ten years from now. It's jam-packed with diagrams, color photos, and plenty of highly-detailed and very clear instructions.

Hand-sewing tips are included, as well as instructions for using the 'essential' hand stitches. This includes full-page instructions in most cases, with multiple diagrams. Each diagram comes with both an easy-to-understand explanation and a set of step-by-step detailed instructions. Essential stitches include everything from tailor's tacks to basting, backstitching, hemming & joining (slipstitch, cross-stitch, overhand, whipstitch, etc.), finishing stitches, decorative stitches, and so on. In particular I appreciate that the explanation included with each stitch details exactly what that stitch tends to be used for and why.

One of my favorite details throughout the book is the extensive cross-referencing. For example, the page that details and diagrams overedge seams provides page references to the overlock machine on page 15, zigzag stitching on page 83, and overlock stitching on p. 83. You won't have to go nuts trying to locate all the information you need. In addition, there's a side-bar at the beginning of the 'stitches and seams' section that provides a quick-reference to all provided hand stitches and their page locations.

This book can start you out as a beginner and still be useful to you ten years later. It covers everything from basic stitches to fabric types to advanced tailoring techniques, in a ton of detail with precise directions and diagrams.

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Extremely Comprehensive Sewing Guide

I am a beginner sewer and fashion design student. This book has been extremely helpful when I get stuck sewing my projects. Its very clear and easy to follow. I definitely recommend. If it helps, this has been the most widely recommended book by all of my professors.

great book

this book has been very helpful .detailed instructions and clear photos make this book a joy to use. this book is an excellent reference manual for all levels beg-adv

Didn't' need it

I bought this book for class, I never got to use it. However the images and descriptions that i did read were pretty helpful, but for me it's best to see someone actually do it in front of me instead of looking at drawn images.

The shipper sent the book on time and in expected condition.

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True sew everything book

This book is not for beginners. You need to understand the different concepts of sewing and cunstruction. But it is a great reference guide for sewing pretty much anything. I love having this book on my shelf, it comes in handy. If you want more of a beginner book, the "Sew Fast Sew Easy" and "Sew On" books are better. Happy sewing!

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