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More Fabric Savvy: A Quick Resource Guide to Selecting and Sewing Fabric
America's best-selling quick guide to selecting and sewing fabrics is now completely revised and updated. More Fabric Savvy brings over 100 new tips, over 400 new color photos and drawings, the latest new fabrics, and entirely new and useful features, including a handy guide to stain removal. From Sandra Betzina, the dynamic host of HGTV's Sew Perfect, this easy-to-use reference belongs on every sewer's bookshelf.
240 pages, Hardcover
First published September 1, 2004
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September 20, 2014
This was a pretty good book about different types of fabrics and how to work with them. I am putting this on my would like to use again later list because it did have enough information that I would like to refer back to later when I am doing more sewing.
The first reason I marked it down a couple stars is I would have liked better pictures of the types of fabric, often the pictures were of a finished garment that used the fabric. The problem is if your a newbie like me trying to figure out what the fabric is and there are multiple fabrics in the garment I wasn't always 100% sure that I was looking at the right part of the garment. I think some individual swatches along with the fabric in use would have been much better.
The second reason I marked it down is because I would have liked to see fabric care listed in the working with section. It did tell you how to preshrink, but what about after? I know some fabrics it might depend on exactly what was used (like beaded, embroidered, etc) but others would be the same no matter (like dry clean only fabrics). It did have a little tiny bit of info on this at the back of the book, but not enough and I would have liked to have seen it with each fabric.
The first reason I marked it down a couple stars is I would have liked better pictures of the types of fabric, often the pictures were of a finished garment that used the fabric. The problem is if your a newbie like me trying to figure out what the fabric is and there are multiple fabrics in the garment I wasn't always 100% sure that I was looking at the right part of the garment. I think some individual swatches along with the fabric in use would have been much better.
The second reason I marked it down is because I would have liked to see fabric care listed in the working with section. It did tell you how to preshrink, but what about after? I know some fabrics it might depend on exactly what was used (like beaded, embroidered, etc) but others would be the same no matter (like dry clean only fabrics). It did have a little tiny bit of info on this at the back of the book, but not enough and I would have liked to have seen it with each fabric.
October 9, 2020
This book is a comprehensive resource guide for fabric. If you are drafting your own patterns it is valuable to show what types of fabric may work. If you are shopping for fabric it helps you to determine if it will work for your project. If you are having problems sewing a project it can help you with techniques, needle and thread choices. If you are new to sewing it can help you narrow down fabrics that will fit your pattern that may be easier to sew. If you like to sew clothes this book will be used time and again.
February 5, 2020
excellent fabric resource book. details on how to work with them and the necessary notions to help making your garment construction more successful.
June 1, 2021
Very informative book for people who sew.
July 14, 2011
So I never have to use my brain to remember every detail for every fabric. Like which needle, what tension, how to care for, what lining, etc.
August 24, 2011
This book is an amazing at a glance resource for how to sew, press and treat your fabric. I use it all the time.
July 20, 2012
This continues the education begun in the first book. There are limitations due to photos and text being used to identify fabrics instead of fabric samples that can't be helped.
May 31, 2015
i love this book. I take it to the fabric store with me and consult it every time I start a new project.
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