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A-Z of Sewing: Everything You Need to Know to Create or Mend a Garment

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Aimed at anyone who has ever wanted to create their own garment from scratch or just fix a hem, this work covers machine and hand sewing techniques. All techniques are meticulously demonstrated with step-by-step photographs to achieve a professional outcome. Readers are encouraged to develop their own creativity with plenty of hints and tips used by professional sewers. Topics include: sewing machine basics; equipment and supplies; working with patterns and fabrics; sewing techniques (stitches, seams, edges, corners and curves, pleats and tucks, hems); closures (buttons and button holes, zippers, snaps etc.); decorative sewing (embellishments); and, troubleshooting.

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A - Z Embroidery Stitches 2

Expand your stitch vocabulary! A must have for all needleworkers...

Showcasing 140 new stitches in the popular step-by-step, colour photographic style that A-Z fans have come to know and love, this encyclopedia of stitches is the ultimate guide for any serious embroiderer.

Designed to challenge those who have mastered the basics, the A-Z of Embroidery Stitches 2 will ignite your enthusiasm and provide you with an enriched knowledge of this timeless art.

Discover new and unusual techniques from Antwerp edging, basket and mosaic diamond filling stitch, to renaissance, rose leaf and sorbello stitch. Plus, learn many different variations of your old favourites including blanket stitch, chain stitch and eyelet.

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A-Z of Goldwork with Silk Embroidery

You'll find over 650 step-by-step photographs to help you create each one of the 8 featured projects like an expert, while learning 96 different goldwork and silk embroidery stitches and techniques.

Each design is presented with clear colour photographs, detailed instructions, patterns and stitch direction diagrams, allowing you to recreate these superb embroideries with ease and giving you the confidence to construct your own original designs.

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A-Z of Whitework

A-Z of Whitework: The Ultimate Resource for Beginning and Experienced Needleworkers (A-Z Needlework):

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A-Z of Sewing for Smockers

The smocking is finished and looks fabulous. What do you do now?
Have you ever been frustrated by sleeves that won't sit properly or a hemline that droops? What is the difference between a sleeve cuff and a sleeve band? Does the stitching show on your piping no matter how hard you try to avoid it? How do you trim a collar so that it has a perfectly curved edge?
The answers to all these questions, plus many more, are contained within the pages of this book, the perfect companion to the A-Z of Smocking.

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A-Z of Smocking

Learn the art of smocking from the experts!
Whether you are a novice or a professional, the A-Z of Smocking will give you fresh ideas, new perspectives, renewed confidence and bring smocking within reach of anyone who can thread a needle.
Have you tried ribbon weaving or freeform smocking? Explored the versatility of chain stitch on pleats? Do you know the difference between jigsaw and template smocking?
Starting at '~A' with accent stitches and finishing at '~Z' with zigzag stitches you'll agree that this is the most comprehensive smocking book ever published.

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A-Z of Wool Embroidery

Learn the art of wool embroidery from the experts!
Whether you are a novice or a professional, the A-Z of Wool Embroidery will give you fresh ideas, new perspectives, renewed confidence and bring wool embroidery within reach of anyone who can thread a needle.

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A-Z of Stumpwork

Learn the art of raised embroidery from the experts!
Whether you are a novice or a professional, the A-Z of Stumpwork will give you fresh ideas, new perspectives, renewed confidence and bring raised embroidery within reach of anyone who can thread a needle.

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A-Z of Ribbon Embroidery

Learn the art of ribbon embroidery from the experts!
Whether you are a novice or a professional, the A-Z of Ribbon Embroidery will give you fresh ideas, new perspectives, renewed confidence and bring ribbon embroidery within reach of anyone who can thread a needle.

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A-Z of Embroidery Stitches

Learn the art of embroidery from the experts!
Whether you are a novice or a professional, the A-Z of Embroidery Stitches will give you fresh ideas, new perspectives, renewed confidence and bring embroidery within reach of anyone who can thread a needle.
The purpose of this book is simply to show you a variety of stitches. How and where you choose to use them is up to you. Throw the do's and don'ts out the window and experiment by exploring different threads, using needles you feel comfortable with and working on fabric you fall in love with.

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A-Z of Embroidered Flowers

Learn how to embroider beautiful flowers from the experts!
Whether you are a novice or a professional, the A-Z of Embroidered Flowers will give you fresh ideas, new perspectives, renewed confidence and bring a work of art within reach of anyone who can thread a needle.
If you're a lover of embroidery, you're a lover of all things beautiful and the beauty of nature is captured most exquisitely in the glorious blooms nature throws us each season.

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A-Z of Crewel Embroidery

Learn the art of crewel embroidery from the experts - now with a fresh new cover!
Whether you are a novice or a professional, the A-Z of Crewel Embroidery will give you fresh ideas, new perspectives, renewed confidence and bring crewel embroidery within reach of anyone who can thread a needle.

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A-Z of Bullions

Learn the art of bullion embroidery from the experts!
Whether you are a novice or a professional, the A-Z of Bullion will give you fresh ideas, new perspectives, renewed confidence and bring bullion embroidery within reach of anyone who can thread a needle.

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A-Z of Quilting

Learn the art of quilting from the experts!
Whether you are a novice or a professional, the A-Z of Quilting will give you fresh ideas, new perspectives, renewed confidence and bring quilting within reach of anyone who can thread a needle.

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A-Z of Needlepoint

Learn the art of needlepoint from the experts!
Whether you are a novice or a professional, the A-Z of Needlepoint will give you fresh ideas, new perspectives, renewed confidence and bring needlepoint within reach of anyone who can thread a needle.

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A-Z of Thread Painting

Learn the art of thread painting from the experts!
Whether you are a novice or a professional, the A-Z of Thread Painting will give you fresh ideas, new perspectives, renewed confidence and bring thread painting within reach of anyone who can thread a needle.

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A-Z of Bead Embroidery

Learn the art of bead embroidery from the experts!
Whether you are a novice or a professional, the A-Z of Bead Embroidery will give you fresh ideas, new perspectives, renewed confidence and bring bead embroidery within reach of anyone who can thread a needle.

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