More Fabric Savvy

More Fabric Savvy
Author: Sandra Betzina
Publisher: Taunton Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2004
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781561586622

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A new edition of the best-selling fabric guide includes all-new updated information on the selection of the best fabrics for a variety of projects and how to make the most of them, including new tips and more than three hundred color photographs.

Fabric Savvy

Fabric Savvy
Author: Sandra Betzina
Publisher: Taunton
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2002
Genre: Dressmaking materials
ISBN: 9781561585731

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The fabric-lover's guide to cloth offers preshrinking instructions and advice on layout, marking, interfacing, and hemming.

All New Fabric Savvy

All New Fabric Savvy
Author: Sandra Betzina
Publisher: Taunton Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781631868412

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"All new fabric savvy takes the guesswork out of choosing the best fabric for any sewing project. Each of the 107 fabrics features detailed information on laying out, marking, and cutting the fabric; choosing the best thread, needle, stitch length, and presser foot; pressing; finish details; and more"--Back cover.

The Mood Guide to Fabric and Fashion

The Mood Guide to Fabric and Fashion
Author: Mood Designer Fabrics
Publisher: Abrams
Total Pages: 503
Release: 2015-09-01
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 161312872X

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“Designers, we’re going to Mood!” More than 10 years ago, Tim Gunn and Project Runway introduced millions of viewers to New York’s ultimate fabric mecca, Mood Fabrics. Now, the experts behind this fabric power- house bring their fabric and fashion know-how—plus their behind-the-scenes stories—to the sewing public. The Mood Guide to Fabric and Fashion is the ultimate guide for home-sewers, fashion students, aspiring designers, and Project Runway fans who want to learn everything they need to know to choose and use quality fabric. Drawing upon the expertise of the Mood staff, the book teaches readers the fundamentals—from where fabric is produced to the ins and outs of its construction—and features a fabric-by-fabric guide to cottons and other plant fibers, wools, silks, knits, and other specialty fabrics.

Fabrics

Fabrics
Author: Marypaul Yates
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2002-04-30
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780393730623

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Fabrics provides designers with the information needed to make their fabric specifications easy, informed, and appropriate to the job at hand, considering aesthetics, performance, application, and green design. This thorough handbook by a textile professional describes and illustrates fibers and yarns, fabric structures, fabric design, dye and printing processes, finishes and treatments, styles and applications of cloth for furniture, window-, wall-, and floor coverings. Also covered are testing and flaws; the fabric industry, and professional practice.

The Savvy Seamstress

The Savvy Seamstress
Author: Nicole Mallalieu
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2017-11-01
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1617453129

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A fashion expert’s techniques, tips, and tricks for transforming your favorite garment patterns—one small detail at a time! Add or remove pockets. Adjust the neckline. Create new cuffs. Swap a zippered back to a button front. With step-by-step instructions, clear illustrations, and how-to photos in this guide, you’ll learn professional design alterations for your favorite men’s, women’s, and children’s commercial sewing patterns. Whether you have basic sewing skills or are a confident dressmaker, you can learn to be your own fashion designer! “Each chapter focuses on a specific topic, and Mallalieu provides a concise explanation and expert tips, as well as numerous diagrams and photographs . . . Skilled sewists interested in altering their favorite patterns will find an abundance of advice.” —Library Journal

Sewing Solutions

Sewing Solutions
Author: Nicole Vasbinder
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2012-01-07
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1620337312

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Even the best sewists will encounter problems, snags, and little glitches in their work. Expert sewist and author Nicole Vasbinder's Sewing Solutions is an indispensable reference filled with invaluable advice you can trust. Organized by stages, you'll find: • Detailed advice for the sewing process, including pros and cons, and basic considerations of working in each step. • An easy-to-follow layout providing basic information as well as step-by-step techniques for making bias tape, sewing trims, buttonholes, zippers, hems, and more. • Easy-tonavigate color-coded cross-references available for quick referencing. • Troubleshooting tips that advise how to deal with every sewing situation. Whether choosing the right tools, reading patterns correctly, or everything in between, Sewing Solutions will prove to be an essential sewing companion.

Sew Eco

Sew Eco
Author: Ruth Singer
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2010-06-25
Genre: Design
ISBN: 1408102846

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Sustainable materials projects have come a long way from scratchy hemp skirts and brown patchwork aprons and Sew Eco is a unique how-to book which guides a whole new generation of savvy crafters in making beautiful wardrobe and home furnishing creations from unusual eco-friendly recycled or vintage fabrics. The book features a series of stylish projects with a focus on both how to source and use sustainable fabrics and teaches readers many different aspects of sewing. Projects include amazing transformations such as making cushions, skirts, scarves, shawls and handbags from recycled shirts, old sweaters, vintage buttons, vintage lace, peace silk, organic fabrics and other materials, using leather appliqué and even "upcycling" an old suede skirt or hat into something truly creative and utterly fantastic.

Fabrics A-to-Z

Fabrics A-to-Z
Author: Dana Willard
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-04-01
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781584799566

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"STC Craft/A Melanie Falick Book"--P. [4] of cover.

Power Sewing Toolbox Volume One

Power Sewing Toolbox Volume One
Author: Sandra Betzina
Publisher: Power Sewing
Total Pages: 9
Release: 2011
Genre: Clothing and dress
ISBN: 0982322313

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The Power Sewing Toolbox Volume 1 contains over 200 tips and techniques as well as the following features: Hardback with enclosed spiral so that it lies flat, Printed on high quality glossy paper stock, Step-by-step photos literally hopping off the page, Written instructions in a size larger type and easy to read font enable me to actually read the copy without my glasses, and a super detailed index makes it easy to reference something later.