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Image - Book Cover Singer Simple Sewing Machine Basics (Book)
This comprehensive at-your-fingertips reference is an essential addition to every sewer's library. With more than 1,000 detailed illustrations, this covers all the need-to- know basics for garment construction and home decor. Also entire section on mending and repair.
Product Details: Hardcover w/ hidden spiral binding, Color Photos, 9.75" x 10.25", 284 pages
  51734  $24.99
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Image - Book Cover Fast, Fun & Easy Fabric Cover-Button Jewelry
What's even more fun than making these cute little treasures? Wearing them, of course. Create a charming fabric button necklace, bracelet, purse, pin, hair fastener, earrings, or bookmark in just a few hours, then show off your instant accessory.
Product Details: Softcover, Color Photos, 8.5" x 11", 64 pages
  47946  $14.95
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Image - Book Cover Sewing Season's Greetings
If you love Christmas and like everything from decorating to gift giving to entertaining friends and family, this book is for you. You'll find 32 projects designed to suit a variety of tastes and every sewing skill level. There are beautiful photos, step-by-step instructions and lots of illustrations to help you complete each project. Most of the quilted holiday projects are quick and easy to stitch. They can be made with purchased fabric, scraps or precut fabric selections like jelly rolls or charm packs.
Product Details: Softcover, Color Photos, 8.5" x 11", 64 pages
  45734  $14.95
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Image - Book Cover Re-Inventing Chenille
Innovative technique for adding chenille to fashion and home decor. 20 exciting projects, from jackets, skirts and tops. To wall hangings and pillows. Also includes expert advise on stitching and layering techniques, cutting bias strips. Shows additional creative uses for chenille.
Product Details: Softcover, Color Photos, 8.25" x 11", 128 pages
  45502  $24.99
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Image - Book Cover Sew with Sara
Meet Sara Trail, teenage sewing whiz, designer, and entrepreneur. Join Sara as she shows you how to find sewing supplies (shopping!), make fun stuff everyone will love to show off (clothes!), and earn extra money by throwing sewing parties and selling your creations (cash!).
Product Details: Softcover, Color Photos, 7.5" x 9.5", 112 pages
  44955  $19.95
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Image - Book Cover A to Z of Sewing: The Ultimate Guide for Beginning to Advanced Sewing
Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned sewer, this comprehensive book is a must. Filled with detailed instructions, A to Z of Sewing is an indispensable reference book for readers who wish to develop their skills and give each project a professional finish. Features a gold mine of more than 180 sewing techniques, all meticulously demonstrated. Includes clear step-by-step photographs and easy-to-follow instructions. Contains all you need to know about sewing machine basics, equipment and supplies, working with patterns and fabrics, and troubleshooting.
Product Details: Hardcover w/ hidden spiral binding, Color Photos, 9" x 9.5", 156 pages
  44663  $29.99
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Image - Book Cover Fabricate: 17 Innovative Sewing Projects that Make Fabric the Star
Create gorgeous one-of-a-kind handmade fabrics and transform them into fun and functional projects with this guide to distinctive cloth-making techniques. From wearables to home decor, Fabricate teaches you to alter simple materials through texture, substance, embellishment, and adornment. The creative possibilities are endless! Make unique cloth using a variety of easy fiber-art and fabric-manipulation techniques. Projects include laptop cases to evening bags, elegant wraps to flirty skirts, floor pillows to whimsical curtains, a felted puff-ball rug, a faux-chenille throw, a textured shibori scarf, and more. Create unique effects with pleats and crinkles; puckers and tufts; cut-and-fray fabric techniques; laminates that add colorful, versatile, and playful layers; surface embellishment techniques like cording, applique, and crazy stitch; heat-treated techniques like burn-out, burn-away, and fabric etching; fabrics designed with solvy and repeating notions like rickrack, hooks and eyes, and zippers. Beginning and expert sewers alike will be thrilled to find that sewing just got creative, beautiful, and artful again. If you are a crafter, sewer, or are simply fabric-obsessed, Fabricate will take your addiction to new levels.
Product Details: Softcover, Color Photos, 8.5" x 9", 128 pages
  44645  $22.95
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Image - Book Cover Sew Darn Cute
Sought after for her one-of-a-kind handmade gifts, Jenny Ryan has created a collection of adorable projects inSew Darn Cute that anyone can complete in a jiffy. Simple sewing techniques and quick yet stylish projects combine in this appealing book that teaches readers basic sewing skills while they create adorable yet useful items to keep for themselves or give as thoughtful presents. Use surface embellishment techniques including applique and embroidery to transform plain tees or old linens into pretty and unique signature items like a pillowcase purse or a skinny summer scarf; create lovable critters or a set of crafty coasters from scrap fabric and felted sweaters; or clean up the clutter in your craft room with easy-to-sew organizers for your crochet hooks, knitting needles, pins, and more. A focus on using vintage and thrifted, repurposed fabrics shows readers how they can whip up unique sewing projects that are also easy on the planet (and on your pocketbook). Colorful photographs reveal the projects and fabric selections up-close; step-by-step instructions, plus Jenny's tricks and tips, make it easy for home sewers to re-create these sew darn cute items for themselves.
Product Details: Softcover, Color Photos, 8" x 10", 144 pages
  43728  $21.95
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Image - Book Cover The Sewing Machine Attachment Handbook
Grab your feet and start sewing! Sewing machine attachments don't have to be scary. With The Sewing Machine Attachment Handbook, you'll gain the knowledge you need to conquer that box of metal and plastic. This indispensable guide will: Help you identify 25+ of the most common attachment feet and accessories with detailed illustrations and pictures, including rufflers, binders, hemmers and more. Give you clear step-by-step instructions for using each foot to yield the best results. Guide you in choosing a sewing machine, including information on what to look for in a new or used machine.
Product Details: Softcover, Color Photos, 8" x 8", 144 pages
  43435  $16.99
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Image - Book Cover Fresh Vintage Sewing
from Fig Tree Quilts/Joanna Figueroa
Bring fresh vintage style to your home with five great quilts and a basketful of unique projects ranging from adorable pin cushions and charming aprons to pillows and journal covers. All feature Fig Tree Quilts' signature palette of warm, inviting tones. See how easy it is to personalize each project with the creative use of embellishments such as beads, ribbons, and bows. For wedding showers, birthdays, or special sewing buddies, you'll have the perfect gift every time.
Product Details: Softcover, Color Photos, 8 1/2" x 11", 112 pages
  42739  $28.99
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Image - Book Cover Singer Perfect Plus
Kathleen Cheetham presents her original garment patterns and detailed sewing instruction so plus-size women can create a closetful of flattering shapes and silhouettes. By working with the four enclosed patterns, step-by-step construction, and fitting instruction, readers can create a wardrobe of versatile and stylish garments-which can be adapted for office wear, casual wear, or evening wear, just by varying the colors, fabrics, and finishing details. The four enclosed patterns are for pants, a blouse, skirt, and jacket-which yield ten unique garments. Each garment is shown in petite to full sizes, from size 14 to 24. The author also includes a mix-and-match photo gallery to help readers create more than fifty individual outfits.
Product Details: Hardcover w/ hidden spiral binding, 9.25" x 10.5", 144 pages plus 10 pullout patterns.
41660  $25.00
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Image - Book Cover Zip & Carry Bags
Create amazing, unique bags with Sullivan's Make A Zipper and Mary's instructions. This is nontraditional, No Fear zipper sewing! Make a coin purse and cosmetic bag from one 5-1/2 yd. roll of standard zipper; make a water or wine bottle carrier with a roll of standard or heavy duty zipper. Other bags include a beach bag, unusual totes, purses, and a portfolio. Follow the colorful, clear steps featured in the book and you'll have a collection of 10 clever bags.
Product Details: Softcover, Color Photos, 8 1/2" x 11", 20 pages
  31414  $14.99
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Image - Book Cover Pat Sloan's I Cam't I'm Sewing!
Sewing is a way to turn your dreams, your imagination, and your ideas into real life "goods". Presented in a class format by Pat Sloan, a fabric-obsessed sewing and quilting teacher, this book gives you the basic information you need to have your sewing machine humming and your needle moving lickety-split. From how to find a sewing machine to buying fabrics and notions, this book will have you sewing in no time! Beginner introduction to sewing, plus 18 projects: Coaster Set; The Perfect Table Runner; Scarf Magic; Oh-So-Soft Baby Blankets; A "Green" Grocery Sack; A "Ditty Bag" for Every Use; Shower in Style; Valance Love; A Summer Spread; "Round and Round We Go" Pillows; and "Easy Peasy" Pillowcases.
Product Details: Softcover, 8.5" x 11", 60 pages.
37249  $11.95
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Image - Book Cover Easy Reversible Vests
With over 101,000 copies sold, the best-selling Easy Reversible Vests is back in print with new block designs and stylish piecing options. You'll receive expert advice from the queen of paper piecing herself, Carol Doak. Learn how to flatter your figure with color, pattern, and scale? See several variations of each vest project? Find tips on successfully piecing dressmaking fabrics.
Product Details: Softcover, 8.5" x 11", 80 pages plus patterns.
37231  $26.95
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Image - Book Cover Teach Yourself VISUALLY Sewing
Concise two-page lessons show you all the steps to a skill and are ideal for quick review. It's amazing what you can do with two pieces of fabric and a layer of batting-the variety of quilts and quilting techniques is staggering. This guide introduces you to the essential skills you need to set off on your own quilting adventures. It walks you through everything from selecting fabrics to assembling blocks to binding the edges. Examples and patterns include both traditional and modern designs and use both hand-stitching and machine quilting so you can create unique quilts and quilted items that reflect your personal style.
Product Details: Softcover, 8" x 9", 285 pages.
39416  $24.99
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Image - Book Cover Sewing for Dummies, 2nd Edition
Sewing For Dummies is a book for both absolute beginners and experienced sewers. If you're a stone-cold beginner, you'll find everything you need to know to sew beginning-level projects-and the book doesn't assume that you've ever even picked up a needle and thread before. If you've had some experience with sewing, you'll find tips and tricks that it took author Janice Saunders Maresh, a nationally known sewing and serging instructor, years to pick up! This updated edition features a fresh 8-page color insert of all the new home decorating projects, including new patterns and instructions for a traditional living room with slipcovered couches and throws; a French country dining room with drapes and slipcovered chairs; and a bedroom with shams, duvets, dustruffles, and window treatments, as well as a bathroom with a shower curtain and towels, hip and funky tote bags and the perfect little black dress.
Product Details: Softcover, 7.5" x 9", 388 pages
  39415  $19.99
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Image - Book Cover Kaffe Fassett Fabric Collection Japanese
Written in Japanese.
Although this book is written in Japanese, it has an abundance of projects with good picture instructions.
Product Details: Softcover, Color Photos, 8 1/4" x 9 1/2", 88 pages.
  30058  $27.30
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Image - Book Cover 101 Ways To Use Your First Sewing Machine
by Elizabeth Dubicki
Features more than 200 color photos and 12 patterns to lead beginning sewers through fun and practical home decor projects and stylish alterations, plus a lay-flat format provides for hands-free learning.
Product Details: Hardcover w/ hidden spiral binding, Color Photos, 9" x 8 1/4", 192 pages.
  23552  $22.99
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Image - Book Cover Sewing Fun for Kids
Patchwork, Gifts & More

by Nancy Smith & Lynda Milligan
Project-packed companion volume to Best of Sewing Machine Fun for Kids. Kids age 5 and up can sew by hand or machine using clear, illustrated instructions. Patchwork projects include game boards, pillows, and quilts. Make gifts for everyone! Embellished magnets, calendars, wall hangings, and other fun projects. Clear instructions for using a variety of threads, ribbon, fabric and felt, fusible web, adhesives, freezer paper, rulers, and templates. Puzzles, games, and jokes make learning fun! BONUS quilting tools & templates. Fun, safe practice exercises lead into projects your kids will love to create. Complete supply lists and step-by-step instructions make it easy.
Product Details: Soft Cover with Hidden Spiral Binding, Color Photos, 8" x 9 1/2", 128 pages.
  21539  $16.95
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Image - Book Cover Sewing Machine Fun for Kids
by Nancy Smith & Lynda Milligan
This book contains 13-kid friendly projects that will teach children to sew. Each new project builds upon skills learned in the previous activity. Interspersed throughout the projects are games, puzzles, and stitching practice that further build the children's abilities. Children can learn at their own pace, and "Helper Star" hints offer guidance to the adults in charge. Written by an elementary Home Economics teacher, this book is perfect for any child age 7 and up.
  86989  $16.95
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Image - Pattern Front Heirloom Sewing
from Country Stitches
Learn to join laces, fabrics and embroidered insertions to make your own fabric using your Husqvarna Viking Machine.
Product Details: Softcover, B & W Photos/Illus, 8 1/2 x 11", 56 pages.
13765 $19.99
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