Sewing Clothes Kids Love

Sewing Clothes Kids Love

Author: Nancy Langdon

Publisher: Creative Publishing International

Published: 2010-02

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 1589234731

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Colourful and imaginative children's clothes to sew, designed with kids in mind. The patterns are sized from 18 months to kids size 12.


Love at First Stitch

Love at First Stitch

Author: Tilly Walnes

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9781849493659

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Love at First Stitch gives you all the know-how you need to start making the dresses of your dreams. Written for novice stitchers, Tilly Walnes demystifies dressmaking for the generations that have never been taught to sew. This book presents the core sewing basics in an informal style, with Tilly's friendly and encouraging voice cheering the reader on throughout.


Sewing Love

Sewing Love

Author: Sanae Ishida

Publisher: Sasquatch Books

Published: 2022-08-23

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 1632172828

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Learn to sew beautiful, simple handmade clothes and begin a journey to loving the body you have. Draft patterns and sew clothes that fit your unique body! In this garment-making primer, sewing is an act of radical kindness and self-care. Learning to sew for yourself enables you to make exactly the kinds of clothes you want, and empowers you to solve the fit issues that come with buying commercial clothing designed to fit one "ideal" body type. Sanae Ishida, author of the award-winning Sewing Happiness, guides you through the process with her inspiring personal story and gentle instruction in the simple art of pattern-making and garment sewing. Create a complete capsule wardrobe of tops, bottoms, dresses, tunics, and outerwear. Each of the 15 projects (including variations) is designed to look good on a wide variety of body types—they're fashionable yet timeless, and let you move with ease. Every pattern is self-drafted (no printed pattern sheets here—you will learn to draft and customize basic shapes to your own body measurements for a comfortable fit). Patternmaking has never been easier than in this intuitive, fully illustrated book. Includes: Lookbook with photographs of the projects on diverse models Primer on basic sewing, pattern drafting (slopers and muslins), and fitting Step-by-step illustrated instructions for all 15 projects and variations Heartwarming personal essay on the author's journey to body positivity


Sewing Happiness

Sewing Happiness

Author: Sanae Ishida

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2016-04-19

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 1570619956

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This how-to guide and personal memoir features 20 meditative sewing projects and inspiring stories that promote creativity, happiness, and fulfillment When Sanae Ishida was diagnosed with a chronic illness and lost her corporate job, she felt like her whole life was falling apart. Inspired to succeed at just one thing, Ishida vowed to sew all of her daughter’s clothes—and most of her own—for one full year. In Sewing Happiness, Ishida recounts her incredible journey, reflecting on how sewing helped her survive such a difficult time in her life. Sewing Happiness features twenty simple sewing projects (with variations) organized by season and tied together with a thread of memoir that tells the story Ishida’s unexpected transformation and how sewing brought her profound happiness. Each seasonal project—from Japanese-inspired home goods to children’s and women’s clothing—is specially designed to promote health, creativity, and relationships and to provide gentle inspiration to live your best life. Complete with photos and easy-to-follow steps, Sewing Happiness is at once a guide to the craft of sewing and a guide to enjoying life in all its beautiful imperfections.


Home Sweet Home Sewing

Home Sweet Home Sewing

Author: Helen Philipps

Publisher:

Published: 2020-03

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9786057834089

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"Here are 17 new designs from Helen Philipps exploring her love of fabrics, patchwork, and colour. There is a selection of inspiring projects including quilts, pillows, a spring wreath, little deer toy, handstitched pincushions and other sewing notions, pretty fabric bags, coasters, charms and decorations. Helen's style is fresh and modern and her work includes extra details and embellishments to inspire your own creativity." --Page [4] of cover.


1,000 Clever Sewing Shortcuts & Tips

1,000 Clever Sewing Shortcuts & Tips

Author: Deepika Prakash

Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA

Published: 2011-01-19

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 1610581024

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Get invaluable advice from sewers like you with this handy reference. This practical reference guide features the best hands-on sewing tips culled from the popular sewing website PatternReview.com, a community of more than 200,000 members. You’ll also find special how-to features by PatternReview.com’s master teachers and pattern designers, including Kenneth D. King, Susan Khalje, Sarah Veblen, Shannon Gifford, and Anna Mazur. Best of all, these words of wisdom—more than 1,000 tips in all—will provide you with new solutions to the trickiest problems and show you how to save time, money, and materials. Praise for 1,000 Clever Sewing Shortcuts & Tips “A must-have book for every sewer’s library. Whether you’re a burgeoning beginner or a seasoned seamstress, this book will teach you more than a few new tricks. Honestly, I couldn’t put it down! It’s packed full of creative tips and great ideas, shared as always, sewer to sewer!” —Margo Martin, Executive Director, American Sewing Guild, Inc. “The only thing better than a good tip is more good tips, no? It’s all very well to get an expert’s tips, but what’s really needed when tip gathering is a hive-mind’s best discoveries, and there’s no busier, buzzier sewing hive than Deepika’s PatternReview, so you KNOW they’re in here, those tips you haven’t head, haven’t yet tried, haven’t yet imagined. Welcome to the Hive!” —David Coffin, former editor of Threads magazine and author of Making Trousers for Men and Women


Sewing Craft Books: Sewing Stitches & Sewing Techniques

Sewing Craft Books: Sewing Stitches & Sewing Techniques

Author: Mary Kay Hunziger

Publisher: Speedy Publishing LLC

Published: 2014-07-12

Total Pages: 379

ISBN-13: 1634280423

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This is a 4 In 1 box set compilation of 4 books. This compilation includes Mary Kay Hunziger's 4 titles: Book 1: 7 More Ways Of Sewing For A Beginner Book 2: Sewing Tutorials Sewing Book With Sewing Patterns For Beginner Book 3: Craft Business: Sewing Books with 99+ Places To Sell For Profit Book 4: Crafting Is Like you! Mary Kay Hunziger is an expert in teaching adults and kids how to sew, how to knit, how to quilt and how to craft. Mary Kay has written a series of best-selling sewing, quilting, knitting and crafting books. This sewing compilation is the perfect introduction to sewing for beginners. You will get access to her 3 awesome sewing tutorials for beginners that include 400+ resources + even more sewing nuggets that are included in the interactive sewing guide that is included, too, plus her one craft poem a day book. These 400+ resources include places to research and sell your DIY sewing items beyond Etsy, Dawanda, Pinterest. These are sewing places that you probably never even heard before, but you definitely want to make use of these resources because that is how the sewing and crafting elite is doing it. If you want to become financially independent with selling your own creations and crafts make sure to take a look at the resoruces part because this is how you are able to secretly profit from what you love doing, too! This is how the sewing and crafting elite is doing it and inside you will find these secret resources so that you can benefit from this knowledge, too! Based on the techniques and instructions that you will find in this sewing compilation, you can quickly, easily and effortlessly learn to sew on a basic level. You will learn basic sewing stitches, patterns and techniques in order to be able to create your very first successful sewing project on your own and without visiting an expensive sewing training course that is way too expensive and that takes too much time out of your day. If you are a busy person and want to learn...


Playing with Patchwork & Sewing

Playing with Patchwork & Sewing

Author: Nicole Calver

Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc

Published: 2020-02-25

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 1617458384

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Piece modern home decor and gifts with these 18 projects that can help build your skills. Are you a sewist who wants to break into quilting? Or a quilter who’d like to turn your blocks into something a little more dimensional? Take a walk on the wild side with eighteen projects that combine the best of both worlds! Create useful gifts and home decor, including bright modern quilts, a pencil case, notebook cover, market bag, and more. Plus, explore new skills with each project! Nicole shares simple instructions for basic patchwork, foundation piecing, English paper piecing, and an easy way to machine appliqué. Each block comes in three sizes, so you can practice new techniques with larger fabric cuts before moving on to smaller pieces. Stitch six blocks in mega, medium, and micro projects! Perfect for beginning quilters and more advanced sewists Learn a new technique with a large-scale project, then try out the same block with smaller pieces Sew modern quilts, striking pillows, table toppers, pincushions, and more useful handmade gifts


The Everything Sewing Book

The Everything Sewing Book

Author: Sandra Detrixhe

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2004-06-04

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 1440522952

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Despite the availability of retail fashion, more and more people are turning away from the assembly line toward one-of-a-kind clothing, decorations, and accessories. The Everything Sewing Book provides readers with easy instructions for creating beautiful garments, gifts, and decorations for the home. From selecting the right needle and thread to choosing fabrics, reading patterns, and working with a machine, this uncomplicated book introduces readers to the basics of sewing as they complete increasingly challenging projects that will be cherished for years to come. Also included are tips and tricks for making alterations and repairs and dressing up old clothes with embroidery and accents. Projects include: Curtains and tablecloths Colorful appliqued tote bags Pillows and wall hangings Dresses and skirts Shirts and vests Supplemented with foolproof illustrations, The Everything Sewing Book is the perfect gift for anyone interested in learning this rewarding craft.