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Sewing 101: A beginners guide to sewing (Spiral-bound) Written for the absolute beginner, these thorough instructions and step-by-step photographs expertly guide you through the basics of sewing. Spiral bound to lay flat while sewing.
QRI#8155A
List Price $ 24.99 Our
Price $ 19.99
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Sewing 911: Practical and Creative Rescues for Sewing Emergencies (Hardcover) This indispensable manual will be your guide to solving the most common sewing problems. From fixing clipped-through seams to correcting fitting flaws, master sewer Barbara Deckert offers 280 ways to repair more than 65 sewing mishaps. Clear step-by-step instructions and detailed photos make this guide accessible, humorous, and highly informative. Sewing 911 lends a helping hand when things go wrong. List Price $ 24.99 Our Price $ 19.99 |
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Make-It-You Sew Hip QRI#6220B $21.95 By Mullen, Shannon Strut your style in fashions and accessories you design and make. 10 projects include belts, bags, pillows and a quilt. Impress family and friends with one-of-a-kind hand-sewn gifts. Bonus DVD teaches the basics of sewing. |
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Sew U QRI#8422B $25.99 By Mullin, Wendy, Hartman, Eviana Built by Wendy's how-to-sew guide which includes 3 basic patterns: pants, button down shirt and skirt. (Sizes 0-12 and XS-L). This books gives basic sewing skills -- how to cut, sew, and light pattern making to alter these patterns so that they're built by YOU! In addition this teaches elements of design through pattern making and sewing techniques. Great book for beginner sewers, pattern makers and future fashion designers! |
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99 Ways to Cut, Sew & Deck Out Your Denim NEW QRI#RH1708 $ 19.95
By Blakeney, Faith, Blakeney, Justina, Schultz, Ellen How many pairs of old jeans do you have in your closet? Everyone from the sewing novice to the fashion guru can appreciate the 99 ingenious projects that will reincarnate your denim has-beens into fashion must-haves. The techniques are simple, the supplies are easy-to-find, and every project takes ninety minutes or less, from start to finish. Concealed spiral-bound hardcover, 223 pages, color & b/w. By Faith Blakeney, Justina Blakeny, & Ellen Schultz. c2007. |
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101 Ways to Use Your First Sewing Machine QRI#6369A $ 22.99 By Dubicki, Elizabeth This fresh and contemporary approach to an age-old tradition gives readers instruction and inspiration to be successful using a basic sewing machine. This handy guide is perfect for sewers to take along when buying fabric and supplies, and features a lay-flat format for hands-free use. |
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The Best of Sewing Machine Fun for Kids QRI#5851A $ 16.95 By Milligan, Lynda, Smith, Nancy Share the gift of lifelong sewing skills with 13 kid friendly projects. |
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90 Minute Fleece QRI#6262A $ 24.99 By Cornwell, Nancy It's fleece in the fast lane with Nancy Cornwell's 90-Minute Fleece. The timesaving projects and detailed instructions in the one-of-a-kind guide feature the newest fleece fabrics and latest trends giving sewers all the tools to create fun garments in under two hours. |
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Pants For Real People QRI#8979A $27.95 By Palmer, Pat, Alto, Marta The most complete and innovative book ever written on fitting and sewing pants comes from 30 years of hands-on teaching experience. This book makes fitting pants so logical even a beginner can follow. 250 pictures and hundreds of techniques will show you the way! |
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Sew Subversive
: Down and Dirty DIY for the Fabulous Fashionista
quay $14.95 by Melissa Rannels, Melissa Alvarado, Hope Meng Sew Subversive is about making fashion your own, whether it's embellishing or customizing off-the-rack clothing or transforming clothes that have lost that loving feeling. The three twenty-something co-owners of Stitch Lounge, an urban sewing studio in San Francisco, teach you, in plain, fun language, how to do it, whether you're hand sewing, machine sewing, or, in a few cases, simply wielding a pair of scissors. |
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Generation T :
108 Ways to Transform A T-Shirt
quay retail $14.95 by Megan Nicolay Make it yours. This inspirational guide with DIY attitude has everything you need to know about the world’s great T-shirt: how to cut it, sew it, deconstruct it, reconstruct it, and best of all, transform it. • Features more than 100 projects (plus 200 variations) for customized tees, tank tops, tube tops, T-skirts—even handbags, a patchwork blanket, iPod cozies, leg warmers, and more. • Not a DIY expert? Not to worry. More than one third of the projects are no sew, meaning anyone who can wield a pair of scissors can put a personal stamp on her wardrobe. But the sewing basics are here too: backstitch and whipstitch, gather and ruche, appliqué and drawstrings. • And the mission statement for Generation T: Ask not what your T-shirt can do for you; ask what you can do for your T-shirt. And then Do-It-Yourself! |
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Fashion
T-Shirts: Easy Sew
Projects for Fun Fashions
Quay $22.95 by Lorine Mason Clever ways to transform a T-shirt into crafty fashion A plain T-shirt is a blank canvas just waiting to be dressed up. Fashion T-Shirts is about transforming a T into a personal fashion statement with easy sewing and crafting. The 25 projects both alter and embellish a basic, inexpensive T-shirt. The embellishing includes simple embroidery, crochet, painting, stamping, buttons, fringes, tassels, rhinestones, and beads. The altering involves cutting, reconstructing, and simple sewing to change the structure of the garment. Projects included are for women or kids and are made with T-shirts of all colors. There will be lots and lots of original, clever details. Stylish, fashionable and fun, this is the book for wearable that we woman can really wear. Easy, clear, step-by-step instructions with how-to photos and projects inherently easier than regular fashion sewing because each starts with a ready-made T-shirt (no fitting, no patterns). |
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Jean Style:
Must-Have Looks Using Embellishments
quay $ 19.95 by Gabrielle Sterbenz Jeans, the most popular and versatile items in wardrobes across the world, take center stage in this collection of original designs that are up-to-the-minute cool, sexy, and uniquely stylish. Jeans Style features over 28 fabulous ways to create cutting edge style by applying a wide range of decorative embellishments to seams, pockets, waistbands, and cuffs on pairs of jeans. Dressed up or dressed down, every decorative idea lends sophistication, fun, and individuality to the jeans-whether they are flared and faded; skintight and torn; or high back, baggy, or cropped. |
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Altered Style:
Sewing and Embellishing Wearable Fashions
quay $ 22.95 by Stephanie Kimura Sewers love clothes—80 percent of American sewers create garments, with 31 percent using their sewing skills to embellish ready-to-wear items. Wearable art is a work in progress that sewers, quilters, and crafters of any skill level can tap into to change what you own, and create one-of-a-kind fashions. Altered Artwear With Wearable Style teaches you how to create denim bags, scarves, and hats from a pair of jeans you already own; use belts as purse straps; transform jeans into skirts, tablecloths into vests and design a whole new world with painted text, swipes of metallic color, and textured fibers. |
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Sew What!
Skirts: 15 Simple Styles
You Can Make with Fabulous Fabrics
quay $ 16.95 by Francesca Denhartog, Carole Ann Camp Sewing is back! Young, crafty women are discovering the fun and creativity of working with fabric, needle, and thread to create simple, colorful skirts, suitable for showing off as wearable art. Sew What! Skirts assumes no prior sewing experience (and no home ec. class or mother with sewing skills!), and doesn’t get bogged down with overly complicated instructions or patterns. |
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Altered
Clothing: Hip Fixes and
Transformations with a Needle and Thread
$
24.99 by Kathleen Maggio A treasure for sewers, crafters, and creative fashionistas. Sewing, like all of domestic arts, is experiencing a renaissance of interest, especially for the "DIY Generation". This new and growing group strives for individuality and the satisfaction of wearing custom garments that make a personal statement. Altered Clothing is a collection of ideas and projects that provide the resources and inspiration for creating personal fashion from existing, used, and vintage clothing and fabrics. Rather than having to discard a favorite pair of jeans because they just are worn through or are cut wrong, this book provides creative redesigns. Rather than buy new mass produced fashions, it is easy and economical to take what you already have in your closet and create not only a fashion statement, but a political statement. With knowledge of some basic sewing technique (barely necessary with today's available technology), anyone can turn old clothing into new favorites with a little creative inspiration and embellishment. So simple that even basic mending tasks can become fashion opportunities. |
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Print Your Own
Fabric: Create Unique
Designs Using an Inkjet Printer
$ 29.99 by Linda Turner Griepentrog, Missy Shepler * Features detailed instructions demonstrated in 200+ color charts, photos and illustrations*Empowers you to create one-of-a-kind fabrics If you are a quilter, you know the quilting community is quickly becoming very technologically savvy, using home computers and printers to create truly individual projects. You'll reap the rewards of Linda Turner Griepentrog's decades of sewing and quilting expertise as you follow her easy-to-follow instructions and technique-building tips for using ready-to-print images to create unique fabrics. An added bonus of this must-have reference is the enclosed CD-ROM |
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One-Piece Wearables:
$19.99 by Sheila Brennan 25 Chic Garments and Accessories to Sew from Single-Pattern Pieces |
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The Complete
Photo Guide to Sewing:
1100 Full-Color How-to Photos
$ 19.95 by Creative publishing Int'l. The Complete Photo Guide to Sewing is the one reference every sewer needs. Its 320 pages and 1000 photographs cover every aspect of fashion and decor sewing. Sections include choosing the right tools and notions, using conventional machines and sergers, fashion sewing, tailoring, special-occasion sewing, and home decor projects. Included are step-by-step instructions for basic projects like pillows, tablecloths, and window treatments. Sewers from beginners to the skilled will turn to this book again and again. |
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Singer Simple Sewing Guide :
Essential Machine-Side Tips and Techniques
$ 19.95 by Editors of Singer Worldwide The Singer Simple sewing series is an easy-reference collection of basic techniques, tips, and trade secrets for nearly every sewing situation. This "at your fingertips" guide provides illustrated instruction for dozens of techniques every sewer will refer to again and again-tips for making the perfect seam, deciphering pattern marks, choosing the best fabrics, applying trims, and more. The Singer Simple Sewing Guide is an essential, machine-side reference for home sewers of all skills levels. |
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Quick and Easy
Sewing with Your Serger:
$21.95 15 Easy-Sew Projects That Build Skills, Too by Becky Hanson An easy, get-started guide to working with your serger--to get quick, professional-looking results with all types of fabrics. Easy SINGER Style™ Quick and Easy Sewing with Your Serger teaches readers all about the serger and presents 15 projects that help them develop the skills and techniques they need for both decorative and functional serging. The projects include fashion makeovers, fashion accessories, home accents, and specialty gift items. The projects make the most of the serger’s special functions and capabilities. |
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Low-Sew
Boutique: 25 Quick and
Clever Projects Using Ready-Mades
$ 22.99 by Cheryl Weiderspahn Provides sewers with a choice of 25+ individual projects most can complete in an afternoon Are you one of the many time-strapped sewers who longs for a few free minutes to work on a project? Look no further for beautiful projects you can create in an afternoon—it's all in this fresh and fun book. This book offers a fresh twist on this time-honored hobby by providing detailed instructions for transforming common household items such as placemats, towels, hot pads, pot holders and rugs, into fantastic and innovative fashion accessories. The projects in this book, include backpacks, eyeglass cases, and purses, and feature skill level indicators for every level of sewer. |
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Designer
Machine Embroidery and Textile Decoration:
$ 24.99 Creating Accessories for Your Body and Sole An exciting new technique book for fabric artists featuring inspirational projects that can be customized to any style. It includes step-by-step instructions, patterns, and templates for all projects. |
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Embellished
Applique for Artful Accessories:
$ 24.95 20 Machine-Stitched Projects for Fashion Items and Personal Gifts Embellished Appliqué for Artful Accessories is a new take on traditional appliqué. Appliqué - layering of a fabric cutout on top of larger fabric and sewing it in place - is most often associated with quilting, but this book takes appliqué beyond expectation and provides step-by-step, illustrated instruction for using appliqué, in combination with other materials, to create beautiful embellished fashion accessories. Each project featured is both creative and contemporary often inspired by nature and organic forms, with stylized flowers, spirals, and abstract imagery. Projects are feminine but not fussy, elegant but not stuffy, energetic and calming. Appliqués are an integral part of each accessory project and all projects feature complete instructions for making the accessory and the appliqué. Finished projects including bags, mini-bags, belts, journals and other personal fashion items . Patricia's designs encourage readers to be creative with their own projects by sharing ideas and insights about stitches, embellishment, and color choices. The appliqués are done by machine using one of three techniques: satin stitch, blanket stitch, or folded edge. These techniques are taught with photographs in the basics section and show details including pivoting with the needle down and satin stitching around curves. The basics section teaches other techniques as well like applying beads and provides advice on fabrics, adhesives, threads, and other materials. |
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Sew Gifty:
$19.95 Fun Accessories, Decor Accents, Baby Gifts, and Other Perfect Presents by Janis Bullis Easy sewing projects designed to be special, out-of-the-ordinary gifts Sew Gifty presents boutique-quality gifts that anyone can make in an evening and will be proud to give. There is a perfect present here for everyone on the list; woman or man, baby or teen. The collection includes on-trend accessories, deluxe linens, colorful toys, gifts for enthusiasts like golfers and cooks, and sentimental gifts for weddings and showers. For gift wraps, there are a stitched card, gift bag, and fabric-covered box. The projects use special fabrics from silks to fleece and instant embellishments, and are perfect for personalizing. Each has step-by-step instructions with how-to photographs and patterns. Even a beginning sewer can create these projects; in fact, these are perfect first projects. The projects include beaded socks, an embroidered silk cosmetic bag, evening shawl, stadium cushion, linen dinner napkins, shoe travel bags, a custom necktie, even a ballerina costume. Sew Gifty is for everyone who loves to make presents for holidays and special occasions. |