Creative Sewing Projects With Your Embroidery Machine [Paperback]

Pamela J. Hastings (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1998

Here, quite literally, is the true "cutting edge" of sewing today -- machines featuring computerized programs for stitches that used to require years of practice but now are available even to busy beginners. Whether you already own one of these "miracle machines" or are just thinking what you can do if you buy one, take this opportunity to discover the latest and best project ideas for embroidery machines. You get a fascinating introduction to the full range of new sewing machines on the market, along with dear explanations of the bewildering advances. Complete instructions cover the new sewing machines, scanners, and computerized "sew on their own" embroidery machines. Projects feature home decorations, garments and accessories for your wardrobe, and special gift ideas like personalized Christmas items, invitations, birth announcements, and many other holiday and personalized designs. Find your inspiration to join the computer revolution, as you master many delicate techniques that would have been impossible with even the most advanced machines just a few years ago. Published in hardcover as Creative Sewing Projects with Computerized Machines.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Computerized sewing machines can do marvelous things these days, but they're no good if you don't know how to use them. Brand by brand, Hastings demystifies these wonders and their accessories and notions, then offers more than 30 snazzy step-by-step projects to take advantage of your machine's amazing capabilities. Garments, home-decor accessories, holiday items, and gift ideas all come out looking professional, and the embellishment takes relatively little effort and little time: you supply the basic design concepts (there are plenty of nice ones here), and the machine does all the work. --Amy Handy

About the Author

Previous titles include Creative Sewing Projects, Sewing Shortcuts, Serger Shortcuts, Home Decorating Basics

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Sterling Pub Co Inc (August 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0806986468
• ISBN-13: 978-0806986463
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 8.7 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,205,255 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I am very dissapointed in this book., July 31, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Creative Sewing Projects With Your Embroidery Machine (Paperback)

I am very dissapointed in this book. It reviewed several different sewing machines and you could only do the project for the one machine you owned! Very expensive for the price. Little information for the machine pictured on the front.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Embroidery machine guide and project idea book, February 18, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Creative Sewing Projects With Your Embroidery Machine (Paperback)

This book is a great take along when you are shopping for your first embroidery machine. It gives you the basics of what to look for in a machine as well as some project ideas to get you started. It also gives you much needed information on stabilizers which are so important for the embroidery machine user to achive the correct finished look. If you already own an embroidery machine, you may find some of the projects very imaginative. The stabilizer refesher is also good reading.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beginning Embroidery Machine How To's, March 9, 2003

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This review is from: Creative Sewing Projects With Your Embroidery Machine (Paperback)

This book is a must have for the new embroidery machine owner. It gives all the basics for correct stabilization and design placement as well threads to use and great beginning projects to try.