The New Complete Guide to Sewing: Step-By-Step Techniquest for Making Clothes and Home Accessoriesupdated Edition with All-New Projects and Simplicity Patterns Hardcover – Big Book, 11 November 2010

Great book to have on hand to help remember techniques not used often. Good for learning too.

Tons of pictures and illustrations helping with the text. You can be a beginner o advanced and it has advice for all the levels.

This is one of the best sewing guides available. If you are new to sewing or if you don't have a basic sewing guide, this is probably one of the best investments you can make towards helping you learn or review a technique before you perform it on your fashion fabric.One of my favorite features is the fabric width conversion chart, which is really handy if you know how much fabric you will need for a certain width and find a fabric you like in a different width. There is a fairly comprehensive fabric guide, including suggestions on what kinds of projects are appropriate for each type of fabric. The section on patterns is especially nice, with tips for how to alter placement of darts and how to do most any kind of pattern alteration. Altering patterns is probably one of the most daunting tasks for a beginning sewer and this book has excellent instructions on how to achieve those alterations. There is also a fairly nice section for making adjustments based on how the garment muslin fits, i.e. are there pulls or wrinkles in different locations - how those wrinkles are telling you which part of the pattern needs to be adjusted, and how to make the adjustment. Of course, there is also a section on how to measure yourself.The instructions for each technique are nicely illustrated and there seems to be an nice balance between how much of the instruction is contained in illustrations as opposed to "words". Each chapter includes a sample project, including a photograph of the garment, identification of the pattern (Simplicity patterns), cutting layout and sewing instructions.

I love this book. so useful

i used to have the previous version of this book, and i liked it better, pictures were bigger. sadly my dog went number 1 on it so i had to throw it away. i think 25 euros is an honest price for such a big volume. great as a reference book or as a beginner sewing course.