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The Answers to All Your Sewing Questions!

Whether you’re a novice sewer or a skilled seamstress, who better to go to for sewing answers and advice than expert Nancy Zieman? Set aside your sewing fears and let Nancy guide you step-by-step through 100+ basic to advanced sewing methods and techniques.

§ Arranged in alphabetical order for fast and easy reference, this handy guide will make its permanent home by your Sewing machine or on your workspace.

§ With over 100 topics ranging from Appliqué to Zippers, Nancy will help you achieve beautiful results with every project.

§ Helpful Notes from Nancy throughout the book provide insights and tips for a variety of sewing techniques and skills.

§ Spiral binding allows the book to lay flat for hands-free reference while you sew, cut or press.

§ Clear, concise instructions and detailed illustrations help make even the most advanced techniques easy to understand and successfully execute.

A wealth of information and instruction from your favorite sewing expert is at your fingertips in this go-to guide! Stitch with ease and assurance with Nancy Zieman’s Sewing A to Z by your side!

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Product DescriptionThis is the only sewing book you’ll ever need. Every tool and every technique you require for making your own home furnishings or clothing is closely and sharply photographed, carefully annotated, and clearly explained.

The Tools section begins with the basic toolkit, opening up into everything you could possibly need – every type of cutting tool and machine foot is shown. This section also includes information on patterns – how to measure, how to use, and how to adjust them. Gallery spreads appear throughout the substantial Techniques section and showcase dArts, zips, pleats etc, as well as showing key stitches. Plus, you can bring your acquired and refined skills to fruition as you make some of the 25 home decor and clothing projects at the back of the book. With The Sewing Book on your shelf, you’ve got every sewing question covered.

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Go to http://www.craftsy.com/ext/YT_SS_TR to get a huge discount off Sewing Studio with Diana Rupp!

About Sewing Studio:
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Have you always wanted to learn how to sew? Tired of store bought clothes that don’t fit you right? Are you a seamster who already loves to sew?

From New York City, the fashion capital of the world, Sewing Studio teaches you everything you need to know to be able to create fun and fabulous sewing projects. Because this class covers a wide range of skills, Sewing Studio is designed for both the person who has never sewn on a button before and for the person who wants to take her skills to the next, more professional level. To create a solid foundation, you will first learn the ins and outs of how a sewing machine works. This will enable you to have a positive working relationship with your sewing machine, making sewing fun and stress-free. In addition to learning all about the sewing machine, Sewing Studio covers topics ranging from how to follow a sewing pattern to seam finishes to tailoring & fit.

About Diana Rupp:
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Diana Rupp comes from a background rich in sewing and innovation. Dubbed the “youthful doyenne of Sewing” by the New York Times and a “craft world luminary” by the Huffington Post, Diana has gone from a novice sewing on her childhood Singer machine to an accomplished educator, author and entrepreneur. Originally from California, Diana now lives and sews in the fashion capital of the world, New York City. In 2002, Diana opened her fashion-forward sewing studio Make Workshop on the Lower East Side, offering a wide array of classes, workshops and sewing materials. In between classes, Diana has written two acclaimed books, Sew Everything Workshop and Embroider Everything Workshop. To top it all off, Diana has her very own line of commercial patterns from the sewing heavyweight McCall’s.

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I found a stuffed animal crochet pattern, but I’d prefer to sew it instead, and can’t find one that’s relatively the same for sewing. I’ve never actually seen a crocheting pattern, so I was wondering if I could just use it to sew the project instead.

Crochet is a method of hooking threads together to make the "fabric" as well as the garment/toy at the same time.

The instructions will be for making so many chains, double chains, etc to form the item.

A Sewing pattern will be a flat piece of paper that you lay atop fabric, cut around the pattern and then sew according to directions for the project.

You cannot interchange the two unless you are proficient in both crafts.

Go to a fabric store and look through the pattern catalog for crafts. Note the pattern company name and pattern number. The patterns are stored nearby in filing cabinets by company name and pattern number.

On the back of the pattern envelope will be information as to how much fabric is needed as well as other notions (buttons, eyes, ribbon, etc).

Product DescriptionThis brilliant little guide covers all the essential basics of sewing, including how to choose the best fabrics and threads for projects, in clear and simple points. Learn skills in amazing Sewing crafts such as cross-stitch, patchwork and quilting. This book provides all you need to know to stArt your own projects today, including indispensable advice for inserting zips and making and using bias bindings.

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Product DescriptionHOW TO MAKE A HOMEMADE DRESSFORM

Another intage pattern download for your Kindle!

Very interesting concept! A homemade dressform that is the exact same shape and size as your own body! Make one for yourself, your children, anyone you make clothing for!

Easily make your own clothing on a dress form that is identical in shape & contour to your own body! These step-by-step instructions will show you how to make a home-made dress form – specially fitted to your own figure!

The tutorial you receive will explain everything you need to know in order to make your own home-made, “you-sized” dress form. You will learn of the materials required to make the form and & you will receive carefully worked-out, step-by-step instructions to make it. Excerpt: “You are now going to learn something that has never been taught in any dressmaking course before. You are going to learn how to fit your own figure, without any outside aid whatever, without a dress form or a model lining. a little work and time—and you have before you a duplicate of your own figure with every little line and curve just exactly where it ought to be! This new way of fitting the figure, makes it easy for everyone in the family to have a perfectly-proportioned form of their own.”

These instructions are from 1926 but [I think] they are still relevant to our modern day. The main material used in making the homemade dress form is gummed paper. However, I would think you could use pre-pasted wallpaper and have the same results. It is quite common to find old or scrap wallpaper at thrift stores and garage sales (I’ve often found it in the “free box”). I have not tried this wallpaper technique, so I can’t say for sure if it would work, but my guess is that it would.

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How to make a pillow out of minimal materials and an old t-shirt. No Sewing Involved!

Supplies
- Pair of scissors
- Measuring tape or ruler
- White crayon, chalk, or fabric chalk/crayon
- Stuffing or old pillow

Enjoy!

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Product DescriptionSewing box is a lightweight and compact Sewing kit that is complete with all sewing essentials. Designed with many compartments to store all your notions smArtly
Compact foldaway sewing box inlcudes:

24 x Spools of thread
1 x Scissors
1 x Measuring tape
1 x Needle threader
1 x Thimble
24 x Needles with box
8 x White buttons
6 x White buttons
6 x Black buttons
6 x Pairs of hook and eyes
20 x Straight pins
5 x Pearl pins
5 x Safety pins- 20mm
5 x Safety pins-28mm
4 x Skirt hooks
8 x Snaps- 6mm
6 x Snap fasteners-10mm
1 x Set 3-step skirt hook

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Product DescriptionSewing is as easy as 1-2-3! In this creative teaching book, craft blogger Ellen Luckett Baker offers a wholly unique approach to Sewing: she presents projects in groups of three, each building on the techniques used in the project before. Baker shows, for example, how to sew a glasses case, then build on those skills to create a zippered pouch, and from there, make a more advanced cosmetics bag. There are 33 delightful projects in all, ranging from clothing to dcor and accessories. With easy-to-follow instructions, how-to illustrations, and 12 patterns tucked into an enclosed envelope, 1, 2, 3 Sew is an essential resource for beginning and intermediate sewers alike.

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