If sewing
machines look as complex as the controls on the bridge of
a spaceship, then this is the book for you. Learn how to get
to grips with your new machine and embark on a lifetime of
machine sewing fun!
I wish I had had something like this when I got my first sewing
machine. It tells you what everything does on an average model,
what all the feet and accessories are for and what your need
to buy in order to get started. You can also read why you
need these things (always a good idea) and all about different
needles, how to work with all the fabric types and what thread
is out there too. There are those useful staged projects with
plenty of photographs that Search Press does so well, and
these include how to do things like wind a bobbin, thread
up and check tension. When you can do all that, get stuck
into making lots of simple but useful and attractive items
to practice skills like buttonholes, putting in a zipper,
hemming and piping. It is true that the book that comes with
your machine tells you some of these things and it does of
course pertain to your particular model, but it certainly
does not tell you all of this in such detail. There is even
a chapter on free machine sewing, another on using twin needles
and an exhaustive troubleshooting section. All of this might
sound daunting, but everything is explained in remarkably
few words and plenty of pictures, so I reckon that my eleven-year-old
self on receiving my first sewing machine would have been
happy with it. I've seen lots of books on this sort of thing
for beginners, but this is the most user-friendly.
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