Journey into virtually uncharted territory and discover the wonderful uses of fleece!Allow author Nancy Cornweel to lead you on a sewing expedition. Adventures with Polarfleece covers territories as fabric and garment care, sewing machine and serger basics, pattern choices and simple design changes.Included are 200 photographs and 150 color illustrations to guide you on a tour of quick and easy techniques for seams, ready-to-wear edge finishing and...

The Polarfleece Adventure Continues!More your Polarfleece garments even more spectacular with exciting new fleece techniques from Nancy Cornwell!Nancy's first book, Adventures With Polarfleece, offered the basics of sewing with fleece. In More Polarfleece Adventures, Nancy teaches the "finishing touches" that transform an ordinary garment into an extraordinary creation. She begins with a refresher course on the basics, including designer b...

Brown bag lunches don't have to be in brown bags! Sew colorful, customized baggies, bicycle bags, totes and more with these fun patterns.Why shouldn't your lunch bag match your personal wardrobe and eco-conscious lifestyle? The projects you can create with this book include sandwich wraps, baggies, bicycle bags, picnic bags, and totes—quick and easy to make with basic sewing techniques.Customize the outside with your favorite fabrics and insulate the inside. ...

Cool Couture is a home sewer's guide to professional, designer-quality construction and finishing. Fashion designer Kenneth King provides step-by-step instruction in the basic, reliable techniques of classical couture. He provides his own shortcuts, careful instruction, and advice to help home sewers of every level produce impeccable results. Each technique is presented with simple how-to drawings and detailed step-by-step instruction. Fashion-forward photographs of the designer's own cout...

This informative and encouraging guide offers proven solutions to all of your most stubborn sewing problems. With a question-and-answer format that makes it easy to find what you need, Barbara Weiland Talbert includes tips on selecting the perfect patterns, choosing the right size needles, comparing seam types, and much more. No matter your sewing experience or whether you prefer to use a machine or sew by hand, The Sewing Answer Book will help you hone your skills while inspiring...

The award-winning textile artist presents her modern approach to 150 fabric manipulation techniques in this fully illustrated sewing guide.In Fabric Manipulation, Ruth Singer presents the most in-depth and comprehensive guide to sculptural and embellishing effects since Collette Wolff's The Art of Manipulating Fabric.Divided into three sections—Pleat and Fold, Stitch and Gather, Apply and Layer— Fabric Manipulation teaches sewists ...

Star of the Great British Sewing Bee and doyenne of the Women’s Institute, May Martin has been teaching sewing for over 40 years. Now for the first time she shares her tips and tricks, offering the ultimate beginners’ guide to sewing.Beautifully styled and simple-to-follow, this authoritative sewing bible gives readers information on everything they need to know to get started with sewing.Providing all the essential background information on sewing, setting up your sewing s...

Sewing can be as easy as 1-2-3 with this helpful building-block approach—includes thirty-three projects!In this creative teaching book, craft blogger Ellen Luckett Baker offers a wholly unique approach to sewing: She presents projects in groups of three, each building on the techniques used in the project before. Baker shows, for example, how to sew a glasses case, then build on those skills to create a zippered pouch, and from there, make a more advanced cosmetics ...

Fabric Basics at Your FingertipsHave you ever wished you could call an expert and ask for a five-minute explanation on the particulars of a fabric you are sewing? Claire Shaeffer provides this key information for 88 of today's most popular fabrics. In this handy, easy-to-follow reference, she guides you through all the basics while providing hints, tips, and suggestions base don her 20-plus years as a college instructor, pattern designers, and author.In eac...

Quilting Can Be Quick!Creating handmade, beautiful quilts has never been more fun . . . or more time-efficient! In her follow-up book to 90-Minute Quilts, Meryl Ann Butler teaches you to add a new dimension to your quilts by incorporating triangles into the designs, while still using her 90-minute methods. Whether you're a novice or an advanced quilter, you'll love using these techniques to whip up quick baby quilts, charity projects and last-minute gifts!...

Learn how to sew simple, clever things that organize your home and help with daily tasks with Zakka Handmades! These incredibly useful projects include pouches and bags, small toys and baby items, and handy kitchen accessories. Some of the author's sewn items also incorporate simple crochet. In Japanese, zakka means "household goods," referring to items for domestic use—tableware, kitchenware, containers of various kinds, even simple clothing. What all the items have in c...

You CAN quilt it yourself!• Refine your free-motion skills with a series of machine quilting exercises using your table-top sewing machine• Don's visual troubleshooting guide to common machine quilting problems and solutions is indispensable• Master a variety of techniques, including perfectly stitched points, absolutely straight lines, and smooth curves• Choose from 50 quilting designs or gain the confidence to draw your ownMr. ...