Excellent for Home Use, Excellent as a Textbook!

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	• Sew Everything Workshop Diana Rupp Workman Publishing Company, 2007 - 256 pages average customer review:based on 46 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

An Inspiring Book for Beginners

This book has been a great inspiration for me learning how to sew. Every step one needs to know for sewing is included and detailed. From buying a machine to how to read a pattern. It even helped me trouble-shoot some issues I was having with my new machine that were not in the machine manual. There are a variety of patterns included and projects that teach you how to make your own patterns. It is truly an inspiring book and even though I am not excited about all the patterns included there are enough to get me started on my adventures in sewing.

Best Book for Beginners

I am an experienced veteran sewer and am teaching my daughter (13) and my niece (11) how to sew. This is their manual, I bought it for both of them. After years of complaining about there being NO good books that teach you to sew, finally Diana Rupp has written a fantastic book that sounds like a real person (who is hip and funny) is teaching you one on one. The projects are great and her lesson progression is brilliant...you just want to keep reading. The book is geared to adults who want to learn how to sew, I will need to work with my girls on some of the stuff, but I consider this THE HOW TO SEW BOOK for the world. Don't waste your money on any other sewing book--this is the one.

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It's like being in a fun classroom!

I am a beginner and found this book to be very helpful from all the books I skimmed through at the bookstores. This book is very detailed with good step by step instructions....it even teaches you the basic sewing terms and explains thing thoroughly. Fantastic book to keep in your sewing library for reference and great book for a gift to someone who wants to sew while not discourging them to sew. I often go back to this book for better explanation to things than any other sewing books and online sewing guides or when store bought patterns get confusing. And the patterns in this book is FANTASTIC and USEFUL!!! I made like 8 Tokyo tie bags in jean with very cute linings. I made so many that I played around with the design making it unique like sewing in a bamboo ring (instead of a bow tie), iron on applique patch, letter monogram, and different closures like zippers, buttons claps, etc. This book will make your imagination go beyond the simple patterns but atleast it helps you learn the basics of sewing. Overall, there is a pattern to make for yourself or for someone else as a gift. This book not at all boring and it is the best buy for that inspiring beginner.

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Awesome!

I loved it! Got it on time & I'm really happy with it! I actually looked at it first at the book store & read a bunch of reviews before getting thee right sewing book, and THIS was it. And it really is! I recommend it for anybody. I mean it gives you all kinds of patterns and great for beginners, even intermediate like me. Also very inspiring... it makes me more confident to sew projects now =).

Excellent for Home Use, Excellent as a Textbook!

Start to finish, Sew Everthing Workshop is just plain good. Diana Rupp got so much so right! There are two parts to my review: the technical aspects (novices, don't be scared!) and the projects.

First, the tech stuff. She makes the nuts and bolts (or bobbins and pins) of sewing seem less mysterious, whether this is your first time sewing, or you picked up the book as a refresher, or you're very experienced and found the projects appealing. There will be something in the front part of the book for everyone to learn, regardless of your sewing level. I love that. Ms. Rupp covers everything from hand sewing to details of a machine needle. When she addresses sewing machine bobbins, she does a pictorial how-to from a variety of ages of machines, something I found personally helpful!

The book covers equipment and tools. She gives advice about what you need to start, and what you'll need as you continue. There's information about maintenance of your tools and your sewing machine. It's especially helpful in the section about the sewing machine needles: when to change, how to recognize faulty needles, and so forth. For your interest Ms. Rupp also covers the history of sewing machines; again, don't be turned off by what could potentially be a dry topic. She's conversational and fun! It's good stuff to know, and who knows? It might just come up in a game sometime. Impress your friends! ;-)

There is a section that discusses fabric, fiber content, choosing the correct fabric for your project, how much fabric to buy if you just can't leave the store without it but don't have a project for it yet, different weave structures, woven fabric compared to knit fabric and how that affects sewing and your project. All of these things are very important to sewing, and can be SO overwhelming! But the way Ms. Rupp writes, you feel as if she's right at your side with a friendly, reassuring voice. There's no project you can't handle without the instruction from the front part of this book.

The instruction compiled in the front of this book is so wonderfully comprehensive, I wish I would have had it way back when I first started sewing. I wish I would have had it in art school! Nevermind: I'm glad I have it NOW. This is a gem. I love this book. I will be contacting my former professors to recommend it as a first year textbook/handbook for Fiber majors. It really is that good.

So: the projects. To begin with, there are 25, a refreshing change from the oft-encountered 12-15 project books. Not only is she generous with the number of projects, Ms. Rupp provides 10 of the patterns with this book. (Working with and choosing patterns is also covered extensively in the front part of the book, by the way.) All of the projects are well described, easy to follow, and have both photographs and diagrams that guide the maker in executing the design. Measurements abound. There is a materials list, accompanied by a techniques list, with reference pages to the front section for help with these techniques. Also, not every project is intended for the beginner, which is a nice touch: this gives the rest of us something to do that's more on our level, but also gives the beginner something to work toward. And since these projects really are quite appealing, the beginner will want to learn all of these techniques, even if JUST to get to the point where he or she can make that Hobo Bag.

The sheer variety of projects is inspiring! It ranges from clothes (and within that category there are skirts and a pair of boxers and a nightie and a wrap sweater, among other things) to pillows to a plush toy to bags to other accessories. They are FUN projects! And the fabric, both used in the projects and scraps used as page borders, is so lush and visually yummy, it made me want to dive into my fabric stash and start measuring and cutting!

I hope whoever reads this review finds it helpful. I hope even more that, by reading Sew Everything Workshop, the maker will be helped for a lifetime of sewing.

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