The Needleworker's Constant Companion: Complete Step-By-Step Instructions, with Hundreds of Projects, for Dressmaking, Sewing for the Home, Knitting Plain and Fancy, and All Kinds of Crocheting

Read, Susannah

ISBN 10: 0670505765 / ISBN 13: 9780670505760

Published by Viking Press, 1978

About this Item

Large hardcover in fine condition with near fine dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 610877

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Needleworker's Constant Companion: Complete Step-By-Step Instructions, with Hundreds of Projects, for Dressmaking, Sewing for the Home, Knitting Plain and Fancy, and All Kinds of Crocheting
• Publisher: Viking Press
• Publication Date: 1978
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0670505765
• ISBN 13: 9780670505760
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • crafts

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Synopsis

Editorial Review - Kirkus Reviews In a single, well-designed volume, the basics of sewing (clothes, toys, curtains, slipcovers), embroidery, knitting, and crocheting are systematically introduced. Although the diagrams could come from Woman's Day, the photographs of finished pieces often look more like Harper's Bazaar--not the pink rickrack items one might expect. There's a classy trapunto jacket, a child's quilt cover emblazoned with a Picasso-like dove (a motif modified for lamp shade and window shade), a man's Guernsey sweater, crocheted bikinis and floor mats. Instructions for a sturdy jacket, brightly striped gloves and socks, cafe curtains--all this illustrated in either standard photographs or atmospheric painterly reproductions.