Step-By-Step Sewing Course: Essential Techniques for Making Over 150 Creative Home Projects

by Karen Hemingway

Book Overview

Learn to sew and make beautiful gifts and decorator-style custom furnishings for your home with the Step-by-Step Sewing Course. This handy guide is filled with more than 150 projects and variations... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0762106301
• ISBN13: 9780762106301
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Reader's Digest Association
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 3.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.8" x 12.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Wonderful Projects!

This is a wonderful book! Great step by step projects. Also one of my hand painted valances is displayed in this book!!!!

Clear instructions for the beginner

Finally a book with clear instructions and pictures. I would recommend this to anyone just starting to sew....I didn't feel like throwing up my hands half-way through as I have with other "step-by-step" beginner books.

A comprehensive and thoroughly "user friendly" instructional guide to the art of fabric sewing and t

Step-By-Step Sewing Course: Essential Techniques For Making Over 150 Creative Home Projects is the result of the collective efforts of the Reader's Digest editorial staff and offers the novice needle-crafter a comprehensive and thoroughly "user friendly" instructional guide to the art of fabric sewing and textile crafting. Enhanced with a wealth of step-by-step illustrations, Step-By-Step Sewing Course offers sewing students as wealth of practical tips and expert guidance through a series of more than 150 outstanding sewing projects ranging from quick and easy bedspreads, tablecloths with lace panels, and decorative window treatments for every type of window, to shower curtains and bath mats, pillows with romantic ruffles, duvet covers, padded fabric headboards, gift bags for special occasions, and so much more. An ideal addition to personal, school, and community library needlecraft reference collections, Step-By-Step Sewing Course is very strongly recommended as an ideal "how to" guide to the fun and skilled standards of sewing.

As a novice seamstress

I found this book to be a delight! The beginning section on "Sewing Techniques" covers everything to get you started in home sewing from knowing your sewing machine to selecting fabric. The book continues with sections on Beginner, Intermediate, and More Experienced Projects. Techniques at the various levels are also explained in detail. The pictures are very helpful and easy to understand. I can't wait to begin a project from this book.

Bright color photos each step of the way

Learn to sew by doing -making gifts and custom furnishing with the home - with the help of the easy STEP-BY-STEP SEWING COURSE from Reader's Digest Books. There're no obstacles to success here: bedspreads, tablecloths, duvet covers and more are presented along with tips on what equipment is needed and how to use it, while pages packed with bright color photos each step of the way assure completed projects and in-progress projects are equally successful. Plenty of other guides cover sewing and present projects - but few with the bright color and ease of STEP-BY-STEP SEWING COURSE.