Stylish and super-practical, this introduction to the key skills of sewing has just what you need to sew buttons, repair clothes, make alterations and take control of needle and thread.

Do you need to sew a button back on?
Or let out some trouser legs?
Or cut fabric from a pattern?
Sewing is a highly satisfying and useful skill, but it can look forbidding from the outside.
This handy guide breaks everything down for you so you can pick up the fundamental skills one by one, leaving you confident to take on repairs, alterations and even making simple patterns from scratch.
Includes:
- understand your sewing machine's controls
- how to measure
- how to check fit
- how to adjust a garment or pattern
- many hand stitches
- some machine stitches
- how to sew a pleat
- how to fix a button
- how to hem
- how to sew a buttonhole
- how to add a pocket to a garment
etc...

Titel: Sewing: Just What You Need
ISBN: 9781837760718
Bandtyp: Inbunden
Språk: Engelska