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The essential beginner's guide to machine sewing, with 8 simple-but-stunning projects to get you started and all key techniques shown step by step.
This is a fully illustrated, must-have guide, carefully structured to get you sewing straight away!
In this complete course, ideal for absolute beginners, sewing expert Debbie von Grabler-Crozier covers everything you need to get started: understanding fabrics, essential tools, how to sew your first stitches on a machine, how to use a pattern template, how to add a zip, and much more.
You'll build up your skills project by project, learning new techniques as you go, and create 8 gorgeous, practical everyday home items that you'll use time and time again.
Whether you're learning to sew on a machine for the first time, or wanting to revisit the basics, this accessible, no-fuss course will get you sewing straight away.
Introduction Tools and materials Glossary Getting started
TECHNIQUES AND PROJECTS
Sewing around a curve Adding zigzag lace Adding a leather tab Turning through Using interfacing Table Mat with Lace
How to use a template Using darts Easy trinket tray
Feeding in elastic How to measure and adapt your pattern Reversible Bowl Cover
Quilting with a walking foot Making bias binding Attaching bias binding Oven Gloves
Measuring and making a template Using felt Adding plastic and metal snaps Making a leather strap Felt Laptop Sleeve
FME and raggy edge applique Simple lining Making square corners Using foam interfacing Applique Goldfish Storage Cube
Adding a zip Wholecloth quilting in a grid Finishing seams with a zigzag Adding a tassel zip pull Quilted Zipped Pillow Cover
Using canvas Adding lined slip pockets Boxing 3D corners Adding webbing straps Super Simple Mini Tote
Taking it further Templates Index
Debbie von Grabler-Crozier has been involved in writing and the craft world for pretty much all of her life but in 1997 she made it into a profession. Now, besides regularly designing projects and writing columns for magazines and websites such as Love Patchwork & Quilting, Love Sewing, AllFreeSewing and FaveQuilts, she runs her popular blog where she shares her designs for sewing and quilts, as well as papercraft, scrapbooking, card making, beading, jewellery and mixed media projects. Her first sewing book with Search Press, The Bag Boutique, was a global success, and she has since written three more books with Search Press Love to Sew: Lagom-style Accessories, Learn to Sew in 30 Minutes: Machine Sewing and Take Two Fat Quarters: Bags & Purses. Debbie lives in Lower Saxony, Germany.
For inspiration crafting and more visit her blog: thefolkartfactory.com
Visit Debbie's online pattern shop, TheFolkArtFactory, via etsy.com
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