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Teach Yourself Visually Sewing (Teach Yourself Visually) | 
 enlarge | Author: Debbie Colgrove
Publisher: Visual
Category: Book
List Price: $24.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 21814
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 304
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 9 x 8 x 0.8
ISBN: 0471749915
Dewey Decimal Number: 646.2
EAN: 9780471749912
ASIN: 0471749915
Publication Date: April 24, 2006
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Product Description
If you're tired of items that just fit so-so—sew, sew! This guide will have you expressing your personal in no time. You'll learn the basics of hand sewing and sewing with a machine and get detailed information about tools and fabrics. From there, you'll progress to sewing seams, darts, facings, zippers, fasteners, and more. You'll learn to use patterns and try your hand (and your sewing machine) on warm-up projects like a tote bag or a baby receiving blanket. Then it's on to more creative designs like a stylish messenger bag and fun, flanged pillow shams. If you learn by seeing and doing and want to create chic, unique accessories and home decor, this book is a perfect fit! Concise two-page lessons show you all the steps to a skill and are ideal for quick review - Each skill or technique is defined and described
- Detailed color photos demonstrate each step
- Step-by-step instructions accompany each photo
- Helpful tips provide additional guidance
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 So so January 29, 2008
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
This was the second sewing book I purchased, the first one being The Complete Book of Sewing by DW Press which was too overwhelming (covered every technique with one well written brief explanation and photo but lacked step-by-step details and photos...more like an encyclopedia).
I am a complete beginner and while Teach Yourself Visually Sewing did provide step-by-step instruction and pictures that were helpful to cross reference to the other book, the explanations exclude important details and their briefness makes them unclear so you to have to re-read them several times before understanding.
Overall this book was helpful (had good sections on types of needles and threads and hand stitching and some better illustrations of techniques than most), but the writing could have been better. The section about hemming was horrible/worthless (skip it!).
Here comes the diatribe: I cannot believe the number of "complete" and "beginner" books that don't bother to properly explain how to mend and take-in and shorten garments which is one of the main reasons folks buy a sewing machine initially. I guess I need to buy yet another book that does explain this...the Singer one(?) or the tear apart and reconstruct type sewing book(?). Also, why is it that no one has written a decent teach yourself beginner book series that includes everything you need to know in spiral binding with appropriate descriptions AND illustrations (forget about the projects, that can be book 2)?
 Great Book for anyone wishing to learn more about sewing January 20, 2008
I have purchased several of these books about various topics and have been pleased with each one. I like the fact that a lot of pictures are included as well as the explanation, since I am mainly a visual learner. This book will be used later as a reference book.
I would recommend this book to anyone wishing to increase their confidence in sewing.
Great sewing basics! January 7, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've been sewing quite a bit for the past 15 years or so...much of this has been self-taught. So, this book has been great to fill in the gaps and the "whys" for what I've been doing.
a little disappointed July 8, 2007
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
I have sewn most of my life and was hoping to pass some sewing knowledge to my daughter. Since I don't claim to be any great expert on all aspects of sewing, I thought she would benefit from a good sewing book. This book does cover many things, more so than some books, but I found some of the explanations too short for a beginner and many of the pictures are hard to see due to fabric and thread color choice. I had to reread some of the instructions more than once to understand what was being explained and I already know something about these things. Since my daughter is old enough to use this book on her own, I feel although it may be a decent reference, it is not the perfect book to learn by. I'll keep looking.
Teach Yourself VISUALLY Sewing (Teach Yourself Visually) April 11, 2007
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
This is a easy to use guide to sewing. I haven't been sewing long but thought I knew alot, but this book has many pointers.
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