Table of Contents

Prelims
Introduction
Inside the Box
Threads, Needles and Fabrics
Basic Feet
Specialty Fabric Feet
Pretty Edges
Fancy Stitching and Creative Texture
Troubleshooting
Choosing a Sewing Machine
Resources
Index and Credtis

About the Author

Wendy Gardiner is a sewing guru! She has been editor of various sewing titles for many years, and for the last ten years editor of Sewing World, Britain's leading sewing magazine. She loves everything to do with sewing by machine and has recently presented six DVDs on the subject. Keen to promote sewing as a fun, affordable hobby, she is also co-manager of the ISEW website, a magazine resource site packed with sewing projects and techniques and backed by leading companies in the sewing industry. Wendy also continues to run creative sewing weekends.

Reviews

If like me, you love sewing but feel you're not quite getting the best from your sewing machine, then this book is for you. The perfect 'teach and show' guide that covers zips, and stitching techniques that are a necessary and sometimes daunting part of our sewing know how. What I absolute love about this book, is that it is an complete and in depth compendium of sewing machine feet. I have a ton of them, in a box, in a drawer!!! I often look at them and wonder what they do.... well now I know. And what's more I am no longer afraid to use them. Wendy Gardiner and Lorna Knight demonstrate how to use these feet, what fabrics are perfect and what thread to use. They take away the panic and give the sewist a new found confidence. The words are simple, the demonstrations easy to follow and the information is massive. From choosing your machine, to threads to tools to fabric to needles.. nothing is left out. This book is superb for beginners, but can also be a ideal reminder for seasoned sewists. It is faultless.
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