Hand Mending Made Easy: Save Time and Money Repairing Your Own Clothes / Edition 2

by Nan L. Ides

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780935278743
Publisher:	Palmer-Pletsch Associates
Publication date:	01/01/2008
Edition description:	Second Edition, Second edition
Pages:	80
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.20(d)

About 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

Introduction     1
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