PatternReview.com 1,000 Clever Sewing Shortcuts and Tips: Top-Rated Favorites from Sewing Fans and Master Teachers

this Book Contains The Best Hands-on Insider Sewing Tips From The Popular Sewing Website Patternreview.com, A Community Of More Than 170,000 Members. The Entries Are Collected From The Website’s Enormous Database Of Members’ Shared Comments And Advice, Rated By Hits And Reviews. Also Included Are Five Special How-to Features By Patternreview.com's Master Teachers And Pattern Designers, Who Regularly Conduct Online Chats And Workshops (including Kenneth King, Susan Khalje, Sarah Veblen, Shannon Gifford, And Anna Mazur). deepika Prakash Founded Patternreview.com In 2001. She Travels Extensively To Meet Patternreview.com Members And Support Small Sewing Businesses. She Participates In Sewing Conferences Throughout The United States And Has Hosted Patternreview.com workshops In New York City, Portland (oregon), And Los Angeles And Also In Germany And Australia. The Author’s Royalties Will Be Donated To Charity. library Journal the Title Says It All. Prakash Has Assembled A Plethora Of Handy Sewing Tips From Her Popular Website, Patternreview.com. The Tips Are Brief And Arranged By General Topic, From Organizing One's Sewing Space To Sewing. Master Classes On Specialized Topics, Such As Sewing Knits Or Embroidering With Beads, Are Interspersed. There's A Lot Of Good Information Here, But Finding What You Need Isn't Always Easy, Even With The Index. However, Crafters With Sewing Experience Are Sure To Find Something Useful. Get invaluable advice from sewers like you with this handy reference.This practical reference guide features the best hands-on sewing tips culled from the popular sewing website PatternReview.com, a community of more than 200,000 members. You'll also find special how-to features by PatternReview.com's master teachers and pattern designers, including Kenneth D. King, Susan Khalje, Sarah Veblen, Shannon Gifford, and Anna Mazur. Best of all, these words of wisdom—more than 1,000 tips in all—will provide you with new solutions to the trickiest problems and show you how to save time, money, and materials.Praise for 1,000 Clever Sewing Shortcuts & Tips“A must-have book for every sewer's library. Whether you're a burgeoning beginner or a seasoned seamstress, this book will teach you more than a few new tricks. Honestly, I couldn't put it down! It's packed full of creative tips and great ideas, shared as always, sewer to sewer!” —Margo Martin, Executive Director, American Sewing Guild, Inc.“The only thing better than a good tip is more good tips, no? It's all very well to get an expert's tips, but what's really needed when tip gathering is a hive-mind's best discoveries, and there's no busier, buzzier sewing hive than Deepika's PatternReview, so you KNOW they're in here, those tips you haven't head, haven't yet tried, haven't yet imagined. Welcome to the Hive!” —David Coffin, former editor of Threads magazine and author of Making Trousers for Men and Women "One thousand sewing tips compiled from members of the popular sewing website: www.PatternReview.com plus five classes on specific sewing techniques taught by leading sewing specialists"--Provided by publisher.