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The Beginner's Guide to Machine Sewing
Easy Techniques and 8 Fun Projects
Series: The Beginner’s Guide to
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The Beginner's Guide to Machine Sewing is the essential beginner's guide to machine sewing, providing 8 simple-but-stunning projects to get you started and all key techniques shown step by step. This is a fully illustrated, must-have guide, carefully structured to get you sewing straight away! In...
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The Beginner's Guide to Machine Sewing is the essential beginner's guide to machine sewing, providing 8 simple-but-stunning projects to get you started and all key techniques shown step by step.
This is a fully illustrated, must-have guide, carefully structured to get you sewing straight away!
In this complete course, ideal for absolute beginners, sewing expert Debbie von Grabler-Crozier covers everything you need to get started: understanding fabrics, essential tools, how to sew your first stitches on a machine, how to use a pattern template, how to add a zip, and much more.
You'll build up your skills project by project, learning new techniques as you go, and create 8 gorgeous, practical everyday home items that you'll use time and time again.
- An essential guide to machine sewing, which takes you from your very first stitches to techniques such as inserting a zip, free-motion embroidery, and adding slip pockets.
- Learn techniques as you make, so you can put your newly learnt skills into practice.
- 8 stunning projects: a table mat, trinket tray, reversible bowl cover, oven gloves, laptop sleeve, storage cube, zipped pillow cover, and mini tote bag.
- Clear step-by-step photographs and instructions for all the techniques and projects, with helpful tips and jargon busters from Debbie throughout.
- All necessary templates included at full size.
Whether you're learning to sew on a machine for the first time, or wanting to revisit the basics, this accessible, no-fuss course will get you sewing straight away.
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The Beginner's Guide to Machine Sewing
The Beginner's Guide to Machine Sewing is the essential beginner's guide to machine sewing, providing 8 simple-but-stunning projects to get you started and all key techniques shown step by step. This is a fully illustrated, must-have guide, carefully structured to get you sewing straight away! In this complete course, ideal for absolute beginners, sewing expert Debbie von Grabler-Crozier covers everything...PaperbackSold Out
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781800923799
Publisher: Search Press Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 15 September 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Search Press Ltd
Illustration: Illustrations, color
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 204.0mm
Height: 260.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 120
About the Author
Debbie von Grabler-Crozier has been involved in writing and the craft world for pretty much all of her life but in 1997 she made it into a profession. Now, besides regularly designing projects and writing columns for magazines and websites such as Love Patchwork & Quilting, Love Sewing, AllFreeSewing and FaveQuilts, she runs her popular blog where she shares her designs for sewing and quilts, as well as papercraft, scrapbooking, card making, beading, jewellery and mixed media projects. Her first sewing book with Search Press, The Bag Boutique, was a global success, and she has since written three more books with Search Press – Love to Sew: Lagom-style Accessories, Learn to Sew in 30 Minutes: Machine Sewing and Take Two Fat Quarters: Bags & Purses. She has sold over 35k copies of her books worldwide. Debbie lives in Lower Saxony, Germany.
For inspiration – crafting and more – visit her blog: thefolkartfactory.com
Visit Debbie's online pattern shop, TheFolkArtFactory, via etsy.com
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