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Author_Lucy Tezier
Author_Marie-Noelle Bayard
basic sewing stitches
beginner sewing book
beginner sewing techniques
buttonhole sewing
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Category=WFBW
clothing repairs
creative sewing
DIY alterations
DIY sewing
easy sewing techniques
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fitting clothes
fixing clothes
garment alterations for beginners
garment fitting
garment repairs
giftable sewing book
hand stitching
hand-sewn projects
hem sewing
home sewing
how to fix a button
how to measure fabric
how to sew
how to sew a pocket
how to sew clothing
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learning to sew at home
machine stitching
measuring for sewing
pleat sewing
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repairing clothes at home
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sewing 101
sewing a pattern
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simple sewing projects
useful sewing skills
Product details
- ISBN 9781837760718
- Weight: 190g
- Dimensions: 125 x 178mm
- Publication Date: 04 Sep 2025
- Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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...
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...
