Sewing

Sewing is the craft of fastening or attaching objects using stitches made with a needle and thread. Sewing is one of the oldest of the textile arts, arising in the Paleolithic era.

The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle
The Tea Ladies (The Tea Ladies, #1)
Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free
The Seamstress of New Orleans
The Secret Keeper of Main Street
A Dress of Violet Taffeta
The Edge of Summer
Crossed by Death (Stitches in Crime #1)
The Dressmakers of Yarrandarrah Prison
The Little Book of Cottagecore: Traditional Skills for a Simpler Life
Quilty as Charged (A Measure Twice Sewing Mystery #2)
Seams Deadly (A Measure Twice Sewing Mystery, #1)
The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes
Make, Sew and Mend: Traditional Techniques to Sustainably Maintain and Refashion Your Clothes
Contemporary Patchwork: Techniques in Colour, Surface Design & Sewing
Couture Sewing Techniques, Revised and Updated
The Sewing Book
The Colette Sewing Handbook: Inspired Styles and Classic Techniques for the New Seamstress
Gertie’s New Book for Better Sewing: A Modern Guide to Couture-Style Sewing Using Basic Vintage Techniques
One-Yard Wonders: 101 Sewing Projects; Look How Much You Can Make with Just One Yard of Fabric!
Vogue Sewing
Patternmaking for Fashion Design
Bend-the-Rules Sewing: The Essential Guide to a Whole New Way to Sew
Complete Guide to Sewing
New Complete Guide to Sewing
The Complete Photo Guide to Perfect Fitting
The Art of Manipulating Fabric
Weekend Sewing: More Than 40 Projects and Ideas for Inspired Stitching (Weekend Craft)
Design-It-Yourself Clothes: Patternmaking Simplified
Sew What! Skirts: 16 Simple Styles You Can Make with Fabulous Fabrics
A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne TylerThe Oysterville Sewing Circle by Susan WiggsA Single Thread by Marie BostwickThreading the Needle by Marie BostwickA Thread So Thin by Marie Bostwick
Spools
7 books — 1 voter
Sew Bags by Hilarie Wakefield DaytonHand Embroidery for Left Handers by Juby Aleyas KollCraftivism by Betsy GreerGuerrilla Kindness & Other Acts of Creative Resistance by Sayraphim LothianA Little Book of Craftivism by Sarah P. Corbett
The Modern Crafter
23 books — 5 voters

Pattern Magic 3 by Tomoko NakamichiPattern Magic by Tomoko NakamichiPattern Magic 2 by Tomoko NakamichiBasic Black by Sato WatanabeFeminine Wardrobe by Jinko Matsumoto
Japanese sewing
24 books — 4 voters


Jessamyn West
Lib had been working all day at the sewing machine, running up new house-dresses for the womenfolk. When Lib launched into a long seam, she pushed the treadle so fast the whole machine rocked like a boat. The needle ate up the goods like a prairie fire eating up grass. Lib hated sewing and she didn't propose to spend any more of her life than needed to be turning out house-dresses for the female inmates of the Rock County Poor Farm. When she hit a long seam the poor Singer hummed and whined. The ...more
Jessamyn West, The Witch Diggers

Jerusalem Jackson Greer
I am reminded that every day I have the chance to pick up a needle and some thread and add to the story. To stitch together something beautiful and unique, to patch a small scrap of fabric to the story, to the Story of God, that will be retold again and again for all of eternity.
Jerusalem Jackson Greer, A Homemade Year: The Blessings of Cooking, Crafting, and Coming Together

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