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Sewing
Sewing is one of those crafts that once you get started, you can change your world: you can make clothes that actually fit, pillows and curtains the exact color you want, beautiful gifts for your friends and family… and so much more!
Selected Books
Mornu, Nathalie
A Is For Apron: 25 fresh & flirty designs
TT546.5.M67 2008
Do you know a cook that would love an apron for a present?
A Is For Apron: 25 fresh & flirty designs
TT546.5.M67 2008
Do you know a cook that would love an apron for a present?
Singer: the complete photo guide to sewing
qTT713.S57 1999
qTT713.S57 1999
Lewis, Alison with Fang-Yu Lin
Switch Craft: Battery-Powered Crafts to Make and Sew
TT713.L49 2008
Oh my! Take a look at this! Switch Craft takes the nerdiness out of electronics and puts it to use in cool, functional sewing projects like the Shiny Clutch that lights up when you open it or the WiFi-Finder Laptop Sleeve that tells you when you're within wi-fi range. Here are some projects that you can do with your significant other!
Switch Craft: Battery-Powered Crafts to Make and Sew
TT713.L49 2008
Oh my! Take a look at this! Switch Craft takes the nerdiness out of electronics and puts it to use in cool, functional sewing projects like the Shiny Clutch that lights up when you open it or the WiFi-Finder Laptop Sleeve that tells you when you're within wi-fi range. Here are some projects that you can do with your significant other!
Mullin, Wendy
Sew U Home Stretch: The Built by Wendy Guide to Sewing Knit Fabrics
TT713.M847 2008
Fresh on the heels of her first book, Sew U, which focused on sewing with woven fabrics, Wendy will now teach the creatively inclined how to make perfect t-shirts, dresses, and hoodies, all with soft knit fabric. Anyone who has sewn with knits can tell you that knits behave very differently from woven fabrics.
Sew U Home Stretch: The Built by Wendy Guide to Sewing Knit Fabrics
TT713.M847 2008
Fresh on the heels of her first book, Sew U, which focused on sewing with woven fabrics, Wendy will now teach the creatively inclined how to make perfect t-shirts, dresses, and hoodies, all with soft knit fabric. Anyone who has sewn with knits can tell you that knits behave very differently from woven fabrics.
Return to the topVideos
Easy Zippers: What Every Sewing Enthusiast Needs to Know from A to Zip!
This video presents five different techniques for adding zippers to garments without pins or basting, covering: right and wrong zipper feet; slot zipper; lap zipper; invisible zipper; traditional fly zipper; mock fly zipper.
This video presents five different techniques for adding zippers to garments without pins or basting, covering: right and wrong zipper feet; slot zipper; lap zipper; invisible zipper; traditional fly zipper; mock fly zipper.
Galaxy of Sewing Techniques
A Four DVD collection that demonstrates various machine sewing techniques.
A Four DVD collection that demonstrates various machine sewing techniques.
Industrial Shortcuts I for Home Sewing
Presents a variety of machine sewing techniques, covering: cutting; sewing machine basics; curves and crimping; pockets; darts; zippers and waistbands; no-bulk back neck zipper openings (lapped zippers); crossing bulky seams; simple and double mitered bindings. Islander Sewing Systems I is the companion book.
Presents a variety of machine sewing techniques, covering: cutting; sewing machine basics; curves and crimping; pockets; darts; zippers and waistbands; no-bulk back neck zipper openings (lapped zippers); crossing bulky seams; simple and double mitered bindings. Islander Sewing Systems I is the companion book.
Industrial Shortcuts II: Shirts, etc.!
Demonstrates machine sewing techniques for making shirts in the home.
Demonstrates machine sewing techniques for making shirts in the home.
Pants, etc!: Draw your own Pant Pattern for a Custom Fit!
Do you long for pants that actually fit you? Check out this DVD for help.
Do you long for pants that actually fit you? Check out this DVD for help.
Browse the Catalog
For additional titles, browse the library catalog under the subjects:
- Sewing
- Machine Sewing
- Sewing machines
- Clothing and dress -- Alteration
- Costume design
- Dressmaking
- Quilting
- Tailoring
- Tailoring (Women's)
- Textile Crafts
You can also browse under the series title:
Web Sites
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American Sewing Guild
The American Sewing Guild is a nonprofit organization for sewing enthusiasts, incorporated in 1993, that now has over 20,000 members with 130 chapters across the nation, including one in Pittsburgh. -
PatternReview.com
PatternReview.com is used by 48,090 sewers to collaborate, share and discuss the projects they have been working on, or are planning to work on. It catalogs and describes sewers experiences and opinions in a structured way so that you can quickly and easily find the information they are looking for. -
Sewing.org
This website by the Home Sewing Association (a nonprofit organization of manufacturers, suppliers and retailers) offers a Sewing Enthusiast section with sewing projects. -
Threads Magazine
The website of this Taunton publication offers a few articles to get you started as well as a preview of the articles in the print publication.
Sewing Machines
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Bernina
Their website offers a newsletter and a blog. -
Husqvarna Viking
This manufacturer's site will give you specifications for their machines. -
Singer
Includes a section on "Choose the right machine," as well as specifications for its machines.
Pittsburgh Region
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American Sewing Guild, Pittsburgh Chapter
This website provides a calendar of sewing events in the Pittsburgh region as well as information on neighborhood sewing groups, when and where they meet. -
Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft Stores
Has multiple locations in the Pittsburgh area that also offer classes. -
Thornton Company
A sewing machine store in Murrysville and the North Hills
