How to Sew ─ Techniques and Projects for the Complete Beginner

Wish you could sew? Really sew? This how-to-sew guide for the absolute beginner is the answer. Simple, straightforward, and beautifully illustrated, How to Sew offers a step-by-step approach to sewing nine awesome projects., In no time, beginners will be demonstrating their new skills to friends and family with nine stylish projects that include an apron, covered coat hanger, and cushion.

For those with little or no sewing experience, here are simple-to-learn basics this fun and creative craft. Each technique is clearly explained and accompanied by a stylish project to make, so that sewists can put their newly acquired skills into practice. Readers will learn all the essentials, including how to make hand stitches, sew straight seams, read patterns, and much more.

Having studied Fine Art at the Slade School, London, Susie Johns began her publishing career as a magazine editor before becoming a freelance writer and designer. Susie has contributed to such publications as Let’s Knit, Crafts Beautiful, Embroidery, Needlecraft, Woman’s Weekly, Family Circle, Practical Parenting and Art Attack and has demonstrated crafts for tv shows.. She particularly enjoys art and craft activities that involve recycling and reinventing. runs workshops in drawing and painting, knitting and crochet, embroidery, and 3D design. She is the founding member of the East Greenwich knitting group, ‘Knitting Night at The Pelton.’ www.susieatthecircus.typepad.com