Sewing Books

With 35 projects that you'll love to make and a helpful techniques section, this book will teach you all about sewing machines. Start out with Clothes and Accessories, where you can make a felt collar and cosy scarf, as well as a …

Everything you need to master quilting, patchwork, and applique, and make beautiful gifts and items for the home. Do you want to design and stitch your own unique quilts and other quilting projects at home? Quilt Step by Step will…

Follow Wendy Ward's tutorials to make a capsule wardrobe of 20 classic garments, suitable for any body regardless of gender, age or body shape. Wendy's style is functional but beautiful basics, and you will learn the skills to mak…

The benefits of sewing are well known - nothing feeds the soul like the act of creativity and sewing garments and projects gives you a huge sense of satisfaction. Not to mention the enjoyment of wearing the finished garment! Sewin…

Sewing School authors Amie Plumley and Andria Lisle teach a sewing camp in Memphis, Tennessee, which has earned accolades from delighted children and parents. When families clamoured for more, Plumley and Lisle launched a blog, se…

It's a perennial problem for crafters: you have a little fabric left over from a major project, too much to throw it away and not enough for another big make. Sewing Stashbusters has the eco-friendly answer, 25 projects specially …

Bring the magic wherever you go with these wizard-inspired crafts! Abracadabra! Now you too can reveal your inner wizard with these fantastical crafts inspired by your favourite witches and wizards from Shakespeare, Disney, Harry …

Embroidery machines have captured the imagination of sewing enthusiasts everywhere and now Jeanine Twigg's second Companion Project Series book combines fleece - the most in-demand fabric - with embroidery! Fleece offers the perfe…

Part of a fantastic new series of stash-busting sewing books aimed at beginner to intermediate crafters, this book has 25 quick and easy projects to make, all from fat quarters or fabric scraps. Each project has easy-to-follow ste…

Introduces, explains and demonstrates the myriad materials, hardware, tools and techniques available to the modern crafter, including using the sewing machine. Each fully illustrated chapter ends with a unique, step-by-step projec…

Tilda's Spring Ideas, Tilda's Summer Ideas and Tilda's Winter Ideas presented in one beautiful collector's volume for Tilda fans everywhere. Enjoy the best of Tilda throughout the seasons with this wonderful collection of sewing a…

Packed with key skills and friendly know-how, this essential guide is ideal for anyone taking their first steps into dressmaking. The latest title in Debbie Shore's Sewing Room Secrets series, this essential guide is packed with k…

This is your complete guide to dressmaking, from designing, creating and customising your clothes. Master every dressmaking technique in the book!Fully illustrated and easy to use, this dressmaking book covers all the essential sk…

Design your own gorgeous gemstone quilts! Learn the basics of abstraction and colour theory as you create stunning works of art with gem quilt expert MJ Kinman. Build skills as you sew a sample diamond quilt top, with step-by-step…

Make, mend, and customise your own wardrobe with this highly photographic beginner's guide to machine sewing. Discover how to read a pattern, use a sewing machine, and sew basic stitches, seams, and hems. Explore how to put those …

Follow Wendy Ward's tutorials to make a collection of comfortable and stylish garments. Wendy's style is functional but beautiful basics, and you will learn the skills to make garments out of knitted fabrics that drape beautifully…

Design the costume of your dreams with award-winning cosplayer Amanda Haas! Learn the art of making and wearing designer-quality costumes that will transform your persona, with inspirational photos and advice.

Fresh from Japan, the much-anticipated collection of Nani Iro sewing patterns is finally available in English! Beloved by art fans and textile enthusiasts around the world, Nani Iro fabric has developed a cult following since the …

A new collection of sewing patterns from the author of Making Luna Lapin and Sewing Luna's Friends. Luna Lapin: Making New Friends is a collection of five brand new animals and their wonderful wardrobes. Choose from Daisy the shee…

Whether it's a landscape, a garden, an animal or a powerful memory of a place or object, Jan shows you how she develops them all into beautifully stitched representations that exude awe-inspiring detail, colour and expression. Jan…

Fabric for Fashion: The Complete Guide is the only book specifically for fashion designers to explain the behaviour and properties of different fabrics. Fashion design is largely determined by how the fabrics work, move, feel and …

Sewing your own clothes is rewarding and cost-effective, plus it's an enjoyable creative skill to develop.  Sewing Knits from Fit to Finish  gives you the instruction you need to sew soft knit fabrics using professional techniques…

Every fashion collection begins with research. But how do you start? How much should you do? How do you use that research? Fashion Design Research is designed to answer these questions and demystify the process for students. Illus…

This fundamental resource for all textile and fashion designers explores over 70 production techniques and over 60 materials used in textile and fashion design. Organized into four main parts - Fibre and Yarn Technology, Textile T…

This book is ideal for aspiring fashion designers, stylists and illustrators, including fashion students, educators, and technologists, and those with an interest in fashion. Fashion Designer will guide you through the fashion des…

Interviews with leading contemporary designers, including Paul Smith, Stephen Jones, and Maria Cornejo and education professionals, including Willie Walters, Course Director at Central St Martins, Andrew Groves from the University…

A stunning collection of seasonal projects using a beautiful colour palette and the latest Tilda designs and fabrics. The sewing and paper crafting projects include bags, decorations, gifts, cards, stockings, gift tags and soft to…

30 easy-to-make, stylish decorations all made from felt. The book includes templates, a comprehensive techniques section, guide to embroidery stitches and beautiful hand-drawn illustrations to accompany every project. The projects…

Fashion Promotion is an inspiring and practical guide to promoting a brand. It addresses the new ways in which brands engage with customers, through the latest digital channels as well as traditional methods. Topics covered includ…

The Hand-Stitched Home: Projects and Inspiration for Creating Embroidered Textiles for the Home is an inspirational book by the embroiderer and textile designer Caroline Zoob. Full of beautifully photographed projects and ideas, f…