Synopses & Reviews
Wish you could sew? Really sew? This how-to-sew guide for the absolute beginner is the answer. Simple, straightforward, and beautifully illustrated, How to Sew offers a step-by-step approach to sewing nine awesome projects. In no time, beginners will be demonstrating their new skills to friends and family with nine stylish
projects that include an apron, covered coat hanger, and cushion. For those with little or no sewing experience, here are simple-to-learn basics for this fun and creative craft. Each technique is clearly explained and accompanied by a stylish project to make, so that sewists can put their newly acquired skills into practice. Readers will learn all the essentials, including how to make hand stitches, sew straight seams,
Synopsis
Wish you could sew? Really sew? If you've always liked the idea of taking up sewing but didn't know where to start, How to Sew, a guide for the absolute beginner, is for you. Simple and straightforward, this step-by-step guide to sewing 9 awesome projects is beautifully illustrated so you can see, do, get. Before you know it, you'll be demonstrating your new skills to friends and family with 9 stylish projects that include an apron, covered coat hanger, and cushion. For those with little or no sewing experience, this simple-to-learn, project-based resource starts you off with the basics and takes you through the initial stages of this fun and creative craft that's been around for centuries. Each technique is clearly explained and accompanied by a stylish project to make, so that you can put your newly acquired skills into practice.
Rest assured, you'll learn all the sewing essentials including how to:
- Do the necessary stitches
- Make seams
- Work with patterns and templates
- And much more
So, you want to learn how to sew? How to Sew will teach you easier than you ever imagined. Now that's a simple pattern anyone can follow
About the Author
Having studied Fine Art at the Slade School, London, Susie Johns began her publishing career as a magazine editor before becoming a freelance writer and designer. Susie has contributed to such publications as Lets Knit, Crafts Beautiful, Embroidery, Needlecraft, Womans Weekly, Family Circle, Practical Parenting and Art Attack and has demonstrated crafts for tv shows.. She particularly enjoys art and craft activities that involve recycling and reinventing. runs workshops in drawing and painting, knitting and crochet, embroidery, and 3D design. She is the founding member of the East Greenwich knitting group, ‘Knitting Night at The Pelton. www.susieatthecircus.typepad.com