Collection: Needlework

For the love of Yarn, Fabric and Fashion

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  • Reader's Digest Complete Guide to Sewing 1981
     Everything anyone needs to know about basic sewing techniques is found in Reader's Digest Complete Guide to Sewing.
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  • The Complete Book of Sewing by Larry Eisinger 1972
    The Complete Book of Sewing is a rare treasure. Any collector with an interest in vintage fashion will be fascinated by this beautifully illustrated book. Not only a technical sewing manual, but transports me back to a time when tunics, peasant dresses, psychedelic prints and iconic Jackie Kennedy trendsetting fashion
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  • Introduction to Textiles by Evelyn Stout 1965
    Introduction to Textiles discusses the properties of groups of natural and man-made fibres, yarns, and fabric construction, colour and design. This textbook by Cornell University Professor Stout contains numerous photos and illustrations.
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  • Sewing Made Easy by Dorothy Lynch, Mary Sara 1960
    Sewing Made Easy by Dorothy Lynch, Mary Sara 1960  https://dbliss.ca/products/sewing-made-easy-by-mary-lynch-dorothy-sara-hardcover  In Sewing Made Easy, a beginner will get detailed yet easy-to-follow instructions making it easy to work along with any pattern selected. Beginners will be mastering all the fundamental steps in sewing, altering, or restyling a garment. The experienced sewer will welcome the short cuts and new tips and techniques
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  • The Knitting Answer Book: Solutions to Every Problem You'll Ever Face by Margaret Radcliffe 2005
     The Knitting Answer Book . This guidebook contains detailed, illustrated answers to literally hundreds of questions, from the common to the more unusual: • Are certain needles better for certain yarns? • What if I dropped a stitch several rows back? • Why do my edges tend to curl up? • Can you use a different weigh
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  • Customize Your Sewing Patterns for a Perfect Fit by Mary Morris, Sally McCann 2002
    Customize Your Sewing Patterns for a Perfect Fit? User-friendly techniques will enable you to alter any pattern so that the finished product fits flawlessly and flatters the body. Find out how to take accurate measurements and compare them with the patterns from six popular companies, create a perfect master pattern and adjust the major pieces to suit your shape.
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  • The Everything Knitting Book: Simple Instructions for Creating Beautiful Handmade Items by Jane Eldershaw 2002
    The Everything Knitting Book is a simple, comprehensive guide to blankets and sweaters to hats and scarves.  this book offers you all you need to know to create knits  This book helps you choose the right yarn, find the appropriate needle, pick a pattern, and learn a variety of stitches.
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  • The Knitter's Handy Book of Patterns by Ann Budd 2002
    The Knitter's Handy Book of Patterns offers charts and plans for making infant- through adult-sized projects. This unique book provides knitters with a complete resource of more than 350 patterns for caps, tams, scarves, vests, sweaters, mittens, gloves, and socks written for multiple gauges to accommodate all weights of yarn from bulky to fingering. Also included are the basics of pattern design and alteration to allow for the addition of different types of texture and colour patterns
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  • How to Knit by Debbie Bliss 1999
    How to Knit is Debbie Bliss' perfect introduction to this versatile craft, from casting on the first stitch to creating an intricate Fair Isle cardigan. Presented as nine workshops, each lesson builds on the skills already learned to ensure steady, confident progress. As well as teaching new techniques and stitches, each lesson finishes with projects specially designed to put new skills into practice. The first lesson looks at materials and equipment and the most basic stitches and techniques.
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  • Shirtmaking: Developing Skills for Fine Sewing by David Page Coffin 1998
    Shirtmaking: Developing Skills for Fine Sewing is the definitive resource on the fine art of making shirts. David Page Coffin shows how to create elegant, custom-fit garments for a woman or a man that have a great tailored look and fit perfectly. And, even more important, once you learn to make and fit a shirt -- whether you have sewn for weeks or years -- your sewing skills will be dramatically improved.
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  • The New Knitting Stitch Library by Lesley Stanfield 1992
     The New Knitting Stitch Library contains over 300 traditional and innovative knitting stitch patterns illustrated in colour and explained with easy-to-follow charts. This book presents new to traditional stitches, simple to complex, for the beginner and accomplished knitter alike.
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  • Singer Sewing Projects For Home: Sewing Reference Library 1991
    Sewing Projects has a variety of different home decorating and sewing project provides step-by-step instructions for sewing window treatments, slipcovers, duvet covers, and bed skirts. There are pictures showing what the items will look like when complete. It has easy-to-follow instructions. ISBN-13: 978-0865732636
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  • Innovative Sewing: The Newest, Best and Fastest Sewing Techniques by Gail Brown 1990
     Innovative Sewing collects the newest, best, & fastest techniques into one place. Learn how to work with the newest knits, choose the best interfacing, plan a workable wardrobe, incorporate the latest shortcuts, buy a sewing machine. Illustrated with color photos & detailed drawings.
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  • Singer Sewing For Children: Sewing Reference Library 1988
    Singer Sewing For Children illustrates useful techniques that are still useful and the book is well laid out and easy to use. Includes colorful ideas for the nursery. Projects can be sewn on a conventional machine or a serger.
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  • The Complete Housekeeper by Emily Holt 1917
    The Complete Housekeeper is 1917 housekeeping guide. With chapters such as the installation of plumbing, house cleaning, food storage, cisterns and pumps, sewing, venting your cesspool and disease prevention as well as wartime food recipes, this classic will give you all information needed to master housekeeping
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  • Make Your Own Patterns: An Easy step-by-step Guide to Making Over 60 Patterns by Rene Bergh 1995
    Make Your Own Patterns is an easy-to-follow guide which will appeal to both novices and experienced dressmakers.  step-by-step guidance, the reader will be shown the easy way to take accurate body measurements and draw up basic patterns for skirts, shirts, dresses and trousers, plus collars, sleeves and necklines.
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