The Sewing Book

by Alison Smith

Overview

Everything you need to know to make your own clothing and soft furnishings with a sewing machine

Demystify your sewing machine and get to grips with essential techniques with The Sewing Book. This bestselling guide covers over 300 techniques with illustrated step-by-step sequences, showing you how to create everything from seams and hems to darts, gathers, and collars.

Discover how to read a pattern and adapt designs to suit your measurements, get to grips with tools and materials, and find the best fabrics to suit whatever you want to make.

Complete with ten homeware and clothing projects to help you put your new-found skills to the test, The Sewing Book shows you everything you need to know, stitch by stitch.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780593964576
Publisher:	DK
Publication date:	02/04/2025
Pages:	352
Sales rank:	500,914
Product dimensions:	9.00(w) x 10.88(h) x (d)

About the Author

Alison Smith MBE is one of the UK's most celebrated fashion and textile teachers and one of DK's best-selling authors. Her School of Sewing, based in Leicestershire, has been open for over 30 years, and in 2013 Alison was awarded an MBE for services to Sewing and Corsetry. She hosts her own online teaching platform - the School of Sewing Members Club. Alison has also taught at Liberty London.

Hometown:

Brooklyn, New York

Date of Birth:

December 12, 1968

Place of Birth:

Rochester, New York

Education:

B.A., Brown University, 1992

Website:

http://www.namealltheanimals.com