The Complete Book of Sewing Shortcuts

The Complete Book of Sewing Shortcuts
Author: Claire B. Shaeffer
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1981
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780806975641

Demonstrates time-saving sewing techniques used by the fashion industry which are adaptable for home use.

The Complete Book of Sewing

The Complete Book of Sewing
Author: Chris Jeffreys
Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003
Genre: Dressmaking
ISBN: 9780789496584

Packed with computer-aided designs, information on new types of fabrics, and specially commissioned photos, this comprehensive guide maintains its original appeal, while enticing a whole new generation of readers.

Sewing ShortCuts

Sewing ShortCuts
Author: Jennifer Maker
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2020-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9781647370022

1,000 Clever Sewing Shortcuts & Tips

1,000 Clever Sewing Shortcuts & Tips
Author: Deepika Prakash
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2011-01-19
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1610581024

Get invaluable advice from sewers like you with this handy reference. This practical reference guide features the best hands-on sewing tips culled from the popular sewing website PatternReview.com, a community of more than 200,000 members. You’ll also find special how-to features by PatternReview.com’s master teachers and pattern designers, including Kenneth D. King, Susan Khalje, Sarah Veblen, Shannon Gifford, and Anna Mazur. Best of all, these words of wisdom—more than 1,000 tips in all—will provide you with new solutions to the trickiest problems and show you how to save time, money, and materials. Praise for 1,000 Clever Sewing Shortcuts & Tips “A must-have book for every sewer’s library. Whether you’re a burgeoning beginner or a seasoned seamstress, this book will teach you more than a few new tricks. Honestly, I couldn’t put it down! It’s packed full of creative tips and great ideas, shared as always, sewer to sewer!” —Margo Martin, Executive Director, American Sewing Guild, Inc. “The only thing better than a good tip is more good tips, no? It’s all very well to get an expert’s tips, but what’s really needed when tip gathering is a hive-mind’s best discoveries, and there’s no busier, buzzier sewing hive than Deepika’s PatternReview, so you KNOW they’re in here, those tips you haven’t head, haven’t yet tried, haven’t yet imagined. Welcome to the Hive!” —David Coffin, former editor of Threads magazine and author of Making Trousers for Men and Women

Sewing Shortcuts

Sewing Shortcuts
Author: Pamela J. Hastings
Publisher: Sterling Publishing (NY)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999
Genre: Machine sewing
ISBN: 9780806977850

"What Hastings promises in her title is truly delivered--an encyclopedia of tricks of the trade for the more experienced sewer....The dozens of illustrated ideas will prove to be time-savers. Most of the techniques involve dressmaking and tailoring details that will make the difference between a professional and an amateur job. Two chapters, in particular, were written for stitchers with more enthusiasm than experience: one on the uses of different machine 'feet,' and the second featuring the top 10 notions to incorporate in the sewing kit."--Booklist.

Couture Sewing Techniques

Couture Sewing Techniques
Author: Claire B. Shaeffer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781600853357

Fashion historian Shaeffer opened the door to the exclusive realm of haute couture in her authoritative guide to the techniques that define couture sewing. And now, "Couture Sewing Techniques," has been revised and updated throughout. Full color.

Sew Any Fabric

Sew Any Fabric
Author: Claire Shaeffer
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2003-11-10
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1440220336

Fabric Basics at Your Fingertips Have you ever wished you could call an expert and ask for a five-minute explanation on the particulars of a fabric you are sewing? Claire Shaeffer provides this key information for 88 of today's most popular fabrics. In this handy, easy-to-follow reference, she guides you through all the basics while providing hints, tips, and suggestions base don her 20-plus years as a college instructor, pattern designers, and author. In each concise chapter, Claire shares fabric facts, design ideas, workroom secrets, and her sewing checklist, as well as her sewability classification to advice you on the difficulty of sewing each fabric. Color photographs offer further ideas. The succeeding sections offer sewing techniques and advice on needles, threads, stabilizers, and interfacings. Claire's unique fabric/fiber dictionary cross-reference over 600 additional fabrics. An invaluable reference for any one who sews, Sew Any Fabric provides practical, clear information for novices and inspiration for more experienced sewers who are looking for new ideas and techniques.

Speed Sewing

Speed Sewing
Author: Janice S. Saunders
Publisher:
Total Pages: 152
Release: 1982
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780442224882

Soeed Sewing will build self-confidence in anyone willing to give home sewing a second chance. If your machine is lying dormant because you have never been sure how to master it--or if you are actively sewing but want to try new techniques to capture the full potential of your machine--Jan Saunders will show you the most effective ways to put it to good, creative use.