Singer Simple Mending & Repair: Essential Machine-Side Tips and Techniques

by The Editors of Singer Worldwide

A fix-it-yourself handbook of helpful hints for everyday repairs—for sewers and non-sewers, too!SINGER Simple Mending and Repair is another new book in the SINGER Simple series. Inside is an indexed collection of handy tips for sewing on buttons, patching holes, stitching hems, fixing stuck zippers, and more. Clear, concise, colored line drawings illustrate the pages.

The SINGER Simple sewing series is an easy-reference collection of basic techniques, tips, and trade secrets for nearly every sewing situation. This "at your fingertips" guide provides step-by-step instruction for dozens of techniques every sewer—and non-sewer—will refer to again and again.

Genres: Sewing

111 pages, Spiral-bound

First published November 11, 2007

Reviews

[Laurla2]

-lots of helpful diagrams on every page.

-a pretty comprehensive book

-suggests using a twin needle for parallel top-stitching. i'd never heard of a twin needle.
-straight stretch stitch for the sewing machine on knits
-temporary fusible stabilizer for areas like darning
-suggests adding fabric or interfacing underneath the hole and catch with darning stitches
-darning foot for machine darning, lower the feed dogs or attach a darning plate
-suggests sewing a line of running stitches around the perimeter of the hole before darning.
-tips for sewing on elastic rather than inserting into a casing
-how to add a gusset to the side for clothes that are too small
-how to lengthen hems, sleeves, and cuffs
-camouflaging flaws rather than mending.

[Judi]

This is a handy reference for any repairs or alterations, especially by machine.

[Linda]

Jam-packed with useful information, without any of the annoying "we're reinventing sewing because it's rad!" hype.