101 Essential Tips: Sewing

✍ Scribed by Dorling Kindersley

• Publisher: DK Publishing
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 74
• Series: 101 Essential Tips
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Tack, darn and hem your way to sewing success with 101 Essential Tips: Sewing, a fantastic pocket-sized guide that gives you all the sewing basics you'll need to get started, understand pattern lingo, and learn beginner sewing techniques. Understand the basics of sewing stitch-by-stitch with 101 Essential Tips: Sewing, a little guide that's packed full of wonderful sewing tips. Build your knowledge and confidence — fast! This pocket guide has all the essentials you're looking for, including the latest tips and tricks. For the price of a magazine, you get incredible research and colorful design that breaks a big subject down in a way that's complete and easy to understand. With 101 Essential Tips, you get a pocket guide that's jam-packed with information and details, from simple explanations of the basics to illustrated step-by-step guides and close-up pictures with detailed descriptions.

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✦ Table of Contents

101 Essential Tips......Page 7
1 Tools for cutting......Page 10
2 Tools for measuring & marking......Page 11
4 Tools for pressing......Page 12
6 Needles, bobbins & feet......Page 13
7 Natural fabrics......Page 9
8 Synthetics......Page 15
9 Special fabrics......Page 16
10 Threads......Page 17
11 Two ways to thread a needle......Page 18
13 Using a backstitch to secure a thread......Page 19
15 Slip stitch......Page 20
18 Herringbone stitch......Page 21
19 Securing machine stitches......Page 22
22 Sewing a zigzag......Page 23
24 Seam neatening......Page 24
25 How to choose a pattern size......Page 25
26 Taking vital measurements......Page 26
29 Pattern markings......Page 27
32 How to lay out a pattern......Page 28
34 Tailor’s tacks......Page 29
36 Trace tacking......Page 30
38 Press as you go......Page 31
40 Pressing a dart......Page 32
42 Pressing a hem......Page 33
43 Sewing a plain seam......Page 34
44 Sewing a French seam......Page 35
46 Stitching a corner......Page 36
48 Sewing a curved seam......Page 37
50 Clipping an outside curve......Page 38
52 Joining bias strips......Page 39
53 Interfacings......Page 40
55 What are facings?......Page 41
56 Neatening the edge of a facing......Page 42
57 How to attach facings......Page 43
58 Types of darts......Page 44
60 How to make a dart on thick fabric......Page 45
62 Making gathers......Page 46
64 How to press gathers......Page 47
65 How to make a basic waistband......Page 48
66 Machine-finished waistband......Page 49
68 Making a neck facing......Page 50
69 Bound neckline......Page 51
71 How to make a flat collar......Page 52
72 How to attach a flat collar......Page 53
73 Inserting a set-in sleeve......Page 54
75 Making a self-hem......Page 55
76 Making an elasticized hem......Page 56
77 Making a turn-back cuff......Page 57
78 Making a patch pocket......Page 58
80 Turning up a hem......Page 59
82 Hand finishing pinked hem edges......Page 60
84 Machine stitching a double-turn......Page 61
86 Stages of a buttonhole......Page 62
88 Sewing on a shanked button......Page 63
90 Adding snaps......Page 64
91 Adding a lapped zipper......Page 65
92 Adding a centered zipper......Page 66
93 Clothes mending kit......Page 67
95 Repairing a broken zipper......Page 68
97 Adding a patch by hand......Page 69
99 Darning a hole......Page 70
101 Repairing beneath a button......Page 71
Index 70......Page 72
Acknowledgments 72......Page 74