Complete Guide to Sewing (Revised & Updated)

by Reader's Digest Association and Reader's Digest

Book Overview

The bestselling bible of sewing has been revised and updated to meet the needs of today's market. It offers extensive coverage of new equipment and step-by-step directions explaining sewing... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0888502478
• ISBN13: 9780888502476
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: Reader's Digest Association
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 3.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 10.7" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

A must have!

Great book to reference when starting to learn to sew. Lots of pictures and explanations.

Never sewed in my life, helped out really well for a couple projects I thought would EVER get finish

Good pics, thorough explanation.

Complete Guide to sewing.

Excelent book to assist with sewing. Great help for those who decide use only tici tock or YouTube when sewing

Great reference

Worth the buy to brush up on your skills.

Great Sewing Book!

This is a nice sewing book! It has LOTs of pictures and illustrations to ease the way. This particular version has a tailoring section if you want to make clothing items. It covers a lot of ground, Machines, stitches, hand stitching, and lotsa "how to". I refer to it a lot..

very god book

I am teacher from Lithuania,the book's is very good.

This book could replace most of my sewing library!

I love sewing books. My collection is about 20+ books, and this one reference contains most of the information in all of them - plus extras I've never seen anywhere else, like the 12 pages on pleating. The illustrations are clear and the text is readable and helpful. Many other sewing books are full of the author's personality and weigh heavily in favour of certain techniques. That makes them interesting reading, but it can make life difficult when all your books disagree. Instead, this book will help you choose the technique and solution that will best suit your projects, without undue prejudice. In summary, this book is not only a good reference it's a great read and is full of information from beginner to advanced. If you can only afford one sewing book, make this the one. If you already have a shelf-full of sewing books, you will still be glad you added this one.

Beginner's Best Friend

If the last time you sat down at a sewing machine was in your seventh grade Home Economics class, this is the book for you.Clear step-by-step instructions, diagrams and photos provide the most novice of sewers with the ability to handle easy, as well as progressively more difficult, projects.The book covers necessary supplies to get started, as well as thoroughly illustrated examples of how to properly use a sewing machine -- providing a much clearer understanding than the manuals sold with most machines.This is a "must have" reference for any sewing room.

Great Help When I was Falling Apart at the Seams :-)

I just started a sewing class in January and quickly became hooked on sewing. The class was once per week and I missed two classes. I thus had to complete my skirt's darts,insert the zipper and facing, and complete the hem without my teacher's constant guidance. I got this book at the library, and it is excellent at taking you step by step to do anything from threading the bobbin on different sewing machines(which I used to have trouble doing), to inserting zippers, and sewing for children and the home. I'm now buying the book so I can have one for myself. I'm usualy a visual learner that prefers glossy pictures to the technical drawings the book has, but the drawings are very clear and easy to follow. Most books I've run across with the glossy pictures are not as detailed as this book is for instruction. This book helped me complete my skirt mostly by myself and my teacher thought it looked great. It's good for beginning and intermediate sewers and I'm sure the advanced sewer could use it as a refresher.