Complete Photo Guide to Sewing: 1200 Full-Color How-to Photos » (Revised)

Creative Publishing international is a worldwide publisher of how-to books. The company's current retail offering includes over 300 titles on topics covering home improvement, home decorating, sewing, crafting, hunting & fishing, and photography. Over the past 15 years, CPi has developed high-quality photography step-by-step books with nationally recognized brand partners like Black & Decker and Singer.

The ULTIMATE step-by-step sewing reference great for beginners and seasonal sewers, too.

Over 1,200 photographs and experts instructions teach you all the basics for both fashion sewing and home décor projects.

For fashion sewing:

Choose the right notions and sewing equipment for your projects.

Get professional advice about sewing with different fabrics.

Understand how to use commercial patterns.

Learn sewing techniques for both conventional machines and sergers.

Study details about every step of garment construction.

For home décor sewing:

Learn how to choose and sew with decorator fabrics.

Make pillows in five basic styles.

Sew curtains, shades, and top treatments and install them with confidence.

Give your furniture new life with slipcovers.

Save money by sewing duvet covers and pillow shams for the bedroom.

Spiff up your table décor with new tablecloths, placements, and napkins.

Nanette Donahue - Library Journal

Providing a basics-and-beyond reference for novice and experienced sewers, these guides include a large number of color photographs of each piece of equipment or sewing technique in the step-by-step directions. (Despite the branding of the books, the content is not machine-specific.) Both begin with the tools of the trade, followed by techniques proceeding from basic to advanced. The primary difference is that New Sewing Essentials contains only reference information, and Complete Photo Guide features projects. Both are excellent references; economically minded selectors may prefer The Complete Photo Guide, because it serves as a reference and a project book, while libraries looking to add a sewing book to their reference collection might prefer the straightforward New Sewing Essentials.