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A Guide to Fashion Sewing (4th Edition) Review

This was a purchased as a text for a sewing class and is an excellent book for new sewers. It offers more than the necessary fundamentals but gives perspective and incite for a professional sewing outcome.

It's a perfect sewing companion.

A Guide to Fashion Sewing (4th Edition) Overview

This new edition of the highly successful classic on fashion sewing retains the large helpful illustrations and easy-to-read text of previous editions. The text is organized in a step-by-step, start-to-finish style coupled by thousands of enhanced visuals. Amaden-Crawford helps the reader create fashionable and professional looking garments for women, men and children.

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Customer Reviews

It's OK - Iris Djaozandry - Canada
My problem with this book is that I always need to remember whether the dark color means right side or wrong side. Of course it is obvious in some figures, but definitely not for most of them. Why not draw flowers to illustrate the right sides on the figures?
It is confusing.

No Photos! All Black and White - Sarah Pearson - Florida, USA
I recently returned to sewing after years of being away from it. I was looking for some books to look at as a refresher as well as learn some more advanced techniques. I checked out 7 books from the library including this one and this was my least favorite. It's pretty basic, offered nothing that several of the other books didn't but primarily, because there were no photos. All the images were illustrations in gray tones. It seemed more like a text book and intimidating. Not fun and inspiring. The information was good but the lack of photos and color made it intimidating and I didn't want to read it.

Skip this one - C. Christensen -
This book is called a "classic" but I don't see why. It is a very mediocre book that skims over or altogether skips some very important sewing basics. This book is published by Fairchild, a leading publisher of professional books on fashion. So I was expecting a comprehensive, in-depth textbook on fashion sewing--I was very disappointed! There is absolutely zero info about altering store-bought patterns, so go elsewhere if you are looking for help with pattern fitting. As an example, there are just a few pages on how to hem garments. It shows a picture of a faced hem, but it gives no instructions on how to do one! Yet there are multiple pages on how to do obscure pocket flaps--it makes no sense! A much better choice would be the Reader's Digest sewing book. Even the Simplicity Simply the Best sewing book is better than this! If the book weren't so large and hefty I would send it back, but I don't want to pay the postage. The book has black and white line drawings that are no better than other books. I would only get this if I could find a really cheap copy, because otherwise you are wasting your money.

Everything you need to know to sew - Daniel M. Villanueva -
Great resource book for those who are learning to sew - big pictures and easily understood instruction.

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