Reader's Digest Complete Guide to Sewing: Revised and Updated Step-by-Step Techniques for Making Clothes and Home Furnishings

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Despite all the specialty guides, a good, basic sewing text is essential in any library collection. Clearly organized and full of diagrams and details, this revision of the 1976 edition contains some updates, new information, and cleaner text. Sections on tailoring and sewing projects have been dropped, information on sergers added, and metric measurements included everywhere. The section on fabrics has been enlarged, and children's wear has been simplified to reflect the joy of Velcro. Still, many of the changes are cosmetic, with some chapters reading word for word like the older edition-though the print is larger and darker in the new edition. Overall, this is a great source for sound sewing basics. Recommended for every library, especially those lacking the older edition.-Karen Ellis, Baldwin Boettcher Lib., Humble, Tex.
WomanSource Catalog & Review: Tools for Connecting the Community for Women
Making even some of your clothes can save money (especially if you have kids), and sewing skills come in handy for alterations and repairs on your store-boughts (maybe you need to put in a new zipper or a hem, or you want to get creative with some old clothes). After 20 years, this is still the best all-around handbook on the shelves for sewing. No matter what your level of expertise, you'll find something you can use here. Everything from basic handstitching to using a sewing machine to sewing simple and complex patterns for clothing, bedding, slipcovers and drapes (even pesky zipper applications seem reasonable here). This newly revised edition has a slew of detailed drawings, friendly instructions and several new additions including a color photo spread of more than 190 fabric types.
—Ilene Rosoff
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780888502476
  • Publisher: Reader's Digest Association, Incorporated, The
  • Publication date: 4/15/1995
  • Edition description: REV
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 421
  • Product dimensions: 8.78 (w) x 10.52 (h) x 1.30 (d)

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  • Posted January 20, 2010

    This book should be called The Complete Guide to Sewing for Novices

    This is the most complete book for ANY sewer. I first borrowed it from our local library. I am a very beginner sewer. Descriptions of equipment, basic knowledge of a sewing machine, different materials, reading patterns etc. is in this book. It's the most complete reference and learning tool I have ever had. No sewer's library should be without it. Everything from reading and buying a pattern to practically sewing it for you. I never expected that it would be a Reader's Digest book. I'm sure experienced sewers would learn from it also.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 2, 2001

    has everything

    This is the book that consistantly answers questions easily and thoroughtly. It does not have pretty full color photos, but the information is complete. If you can only have one sewing book, this is it.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 21, 2001

    Two Words: Buy NOW!!!

    This book is a godsend. I wanted to make my own clothes, but my sewing skills were minimal to nonexistant. So i decided to buy this book because it was challenging, colorful and simple. In a month i went from not knowing how to make a seam to designing and making my own clothes. My advice to you is not to take on too much too soon. Start simple and work your way up. Thats what i've been doing and i've been getting better all the time. By the time you learn to make seams and cut the clothing parts ( For example: sleeves, pant legs ) from the cloth, everything else comes to you very easily. By the way, i'm only 15!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 26, 2000

    A 'Must Have'

    Like any of its many reference books, Reader's Digest has produced a volume That answers just about all the questions any serious sewer, beginning and advanced, may have. Also, this is the only sewing book I own that actually has diagrams detailing how a straight-stitch seam is made by a sewing machine.

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    Posted May 9, 2009

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