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title: "101 Essential Tips: Basic Sewing"
url: https://architect-books.com/101_Essential_Tips_Basic_Sewing_0789419777
description: "101 Essential Tips: Basic Sewing, by Chris Jefferys , Inc Dk Publishing , Dorling Kindersley Publishing , Deni Bown, ISBN 0789419777 in the Architect Books catalogue."
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# 101 Essential Tips: Basic Sewing

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Chris Jefferys , Inc Dk Publishing , Dorling Kindersley Publishing , Deni Bown

- **Author line**Chris Jefferys , Inc Dk Publishing , Dorling Kindersley Publishing , Deni Bown
- **Released**November, 1997
- **ISBN**0789419777
- **Binding**Paperback

## Reader notes

### not for beginners

terminology not for the inexperienced. directions vague. ill be returning it. i much prefer the readers digest complete guide to sewing.

### Delivers its promise

This book keeps its promise of delivering "101 essential tips". From choosing cutting tools to repairing a button hole, there are lots of tips to satisfy the beginner sewer. While I like the layout, which includes step-by-step instructions accompanied by photos, this little book could be vastly improved by adding a few more pictures to some of the tips to make them more clear. A couple of pictures could also be improved by better choice of colour (e.g. attaching a flat collar, which is a glaring yellow, and darning a hole, which is so well done you cannot see the example stitches clearly enough!). Nevertheless, overall it is a very useful book.

### Excellent for those times when your brain just goes blank.

I love this book, it is great for those times when I am sewing and just cant remember how to do something that is called for. As a sewing site guide on bellaonline.com it has come in handy to answer questions for those long forgotten things, like handstitching a buttonhole. Tho I do wish that there were a few more illustrations when describing how to accomplish something, I do recommend this book to any sewer from beginner to experienced.

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