Sewing: A Beginner's Step-by-Step Guide to Stitching by Hand and Machine (Fox Chapel Publishing) Includes Simple Projects to Try at Home - Softcover

Charlotte Gerlings

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1565236823 ISBN 13: 9781565236820

Publisher: Design Originals, 2012

Synopsis

Sewing is a timeless craft that is easy to learn—whether you're learning for practical reasons so you can mend and repair clothing or for creative reasons so you can create your own designs from scratch.

Written for the absolute beginner, as well as those looking for a refresher course, Sewing includes three projects with straightforward instructions, as well as a step-by-step illustrated guide on threading a needle, reading a pattern, basic stitches, cutting and shaping fabric, and machine sewing with confidence.

Included are sections on choosing the right equipment, a glossary of terms and abbreviations, and how to take care of your homemade products. Sewing will provide you with skills that will last a lifetime.

About this title

About the Author

Charlotte Gerlings is an expert in several art mediums, including needlecraft and fabric arts. She graduated in Publishing from Oxford Polytechnic—now Oxford Brookes University—and since then has worked as a book designer, writer and editor. She lives in South West London and is currently studying at Wimbledon School of Art for her MA in Fine Art. She is the author of several books, including Sewing, Patchwork, Cross Stitch, Knitting & Crochet, and 100 Great Artists.

From the Back Cover

CRAFT WORKBOOKS

Sewing

The art of sewing is an indispensable skill if you want to become more resourceful, enabling you to fix a button, mend a split seam or make your own clothes.

This handbook covers the very basics such as choosing your equipment and fabrics, as well as guiding you through your own sewing projects with step-by-step illustrations and straightforward instructions throughout. Budding stitchers will find themselves turning to these pages time and time again to help them master the basics of this rewarding craft.

The Craft Workbook series has been created with the absolute beginner in mind as well as those who would welcome a refresher in the most popular needlecrafts. Other titles in the series are:

• Knitting & Crochet
• Patchwork
• Cross Stitch

Edition details

• Publisher: Design Originals
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1565236823
• ISBN 13: 9781565236820
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 48