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More About This Textbook
Overview
Twelve easy, well-illustrated lessons demonstrate how to mend clothes in the comfort of one’s home. Chapters include basics from threading a needle and sewing on buttons to repairing seams and fixing seams and buttonholes, ironing techniques and repairing broken zippers, all done without a sewing machine. The easy to read, step-by-step language allows anyone to sew ripped hems, replace missing buttons, fix sweater snags and so much more, replacing unwearable garments back into their wardrobe. Proving that mending is an easy, money and time saving skill that anyone—men, women, children—can do, this reference is an essential resource for any household.
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Meet the Author
Nan L. Ides comes from family of sewers and teaches hand mending for several community groups in the Philadelphia area. She lives in Philadelphia. Visit her online at www.handmending.com.
Table of Contents
Supplies for Hand Mending 6
Definitions 10
How Much Money Can You Really Save? 11
Getting Started: Threading a Needle 12
Knotting the Thread 16
Stitching Basics 18
Closares/Fasteners 20
Buttons
Buttonholes
Snaps
Hooks and eyes
Frogs
Zippers
Hemming 35
Skirt
Pants
Extra-wide/narrow hems
Linings Leather pants, skirts, or jackets Fused hems
Emergency hem fixing
Curtains
Fixing Ripped Seams & Holes 45
Ripped seams (including a crotch seam)
Fixing Pockets & Linings 50
Replacing Elastic 52
Patches 54
Fixing Snags in Sweaters 58
Ironing & Pressing Tips 60
Easy Sewing Fashion Tips 65
Some Final Encouragement and Extra Little Hints to Help You Along 69
When Not to Try to Fix Your Garment 72
Index 74
The Basic Hand Stitches 75
Sewing Products from the Publisher 78
About the Author 80