Provides tips on organizing and storing fabric, the art of copying, and designer tips and techniques.

For those who have mastered the basics and want a challenge, Serger Secrets provides instructions for adding more than 50 techniques to the sewers arsenal. Complete with troubleshooting tips and dozens of inspiring photographs of completed garments, Serger Secrets is guaranteed to bring out the creativity in any designer.

Choosing a fabric that is new or different makes sewing exciting. Yet, even experienced sewers may hesitate to work with a fabric that is unfamiliar, no matter how attractive it is. Sewing Specialty Fabrics is dedicated to removing that unsure feeling. This book contains up-to-date sewing methods, giving you confidence to create fashions from fabrics that you may never have used before.

Now in PDF, a pocket-sized guide offering bite-size information at a great price, 101 Essential Tips makes learning quick and easy, offering speedy answers to key questions. 101 Essential Tips: Sewing explains everything you need to know to get sewing, from threading a needle and mastering basic hand stitches, this book takes you step-by-step through techniques so you can make a dart, confidently follow a pattern, repair cloths and make simple items. Plus quick answers to questions on sewing kit, threads and fabrics. Summarizing the essential tips needed for sewing, this guide is perfect for the absolute beginner, giving fully illustrated top tips that can be grasped in an instant.

Expert crafter, Lisa Comfort shares the secrets of her sewing passion. She guides you through all the basics of sewing by hand and machine, as well as providing you with the skills you need to follow her simple but stylish projects.

With just a sewing machine and some inexpensive materials, you can learn how to make your own unique and beautiful bras, knickers and camisoles. Work your way up from super-easy, Tie-side knickers and Wedding Garters that can be customised in endless ways, to sewing with silk, tulle and other delicate fabrics. With more than 25 projects that can be personalised to suit your shape, size and style, from a Skirted Lace Thong and Chiffon Camisole to a Silk Soft-cup Bra and Roll-on Suspender, explore the vast scope for personal, creative expression in traditionally private items of clothing, whether making them for yourself or as a gift.