STITCHES & SEAMS: Essential Sewing Skills for the Beginner Sewist, Tailor, and DIY Crafter

Valeria Carrandi Macias

Rocky Nook, Inc., San Rafael, USA

Year 2024

Pages 263

The book presents essential skills you need to create garments and textile crafts from scratch. The author walks new sewists through everything they need to get started with sewing projects, from necessary tools and gear to essential skills, like inserting a zipper, making straight stitches and clean corners, and how to use patterns. She also offers indispensable information about the vast sewing vocabulary, fabric selection, and making measurements for fitting. This book you will need not only to immerse yourself in the nuts and bolts of sewing, but also to get you going on your machine with helpful preparation exercises, practical tips, and detailed instructions for five unisex sewing projects that put your new knowledge into action.