"Includes instructions for creating a variety of serger-made gifts and other items, from home decorations to kitchen and picnic accessories."--Amazon.com.

THE user-friendly reference essential for any current or prospective serger owner: • Practical, easy solutions for any problem with any serger, no matter what the brand, model, or vintage. • Expert-savvy, timesaving tips on serger threading, needles, threads, feet, upkeep, and much more. • Comprehensive strategies that help answer "Which serger should I buy?"

The possibilities for three-dimensional manipulation of fabric - gathering, pleating, tucking, shirring, and quilting woven materials - are seemingly endless. To describe them all would be to describe the entire history of sewing. In The Art of manipulating Fabric, Colette Wolff has set herself just this task, and she succeeds brilliantly. Working from the simplest possible form - a flat piece of cloth and a threaded needle - she categorizes all major dimensional techniques, show how they are related, and give examples of variations both traditional and modern. The result is an encyclopedia of techniques that resurface, reshape, restructure and reconstruct fabric. • More than 350 diagrams support the extensive how-tos, organized into broad general categories, then specific sub-techniques • Handsome photos galleries showcase the breathtaking possibilities in each technique and aid visual understanding by emphasizing the sculptured fabric surface with light and shadow • Textile artists and quilters, as well as garment and home decor sewers, will expand their design horizons with the almost limitless effects that can be achieved.

Once again, these bestselling authors have fashioned a helpful resource for gift-giving. Their projects are high-quality, yet quick to make. They're the ones you see in classy catalogues at high prices, the ones you'd make if you could only find a pattern. That's exactly where Tammy and Naomi excel: translating the ideas for those of us who love to sew. This wonderful book contains simple, step-by-step instructions for sewing 68 unique gifts, organized.

Learn the techniques for enhancing your fabric, garments, and accessories into wearable works art. Complete instructions on how to use appliquE, patchwork, beading, ribbon, lace, passementerie, epaulets, and more. Dozens of projects and illustrations will help you turn your everyday clothes into a brand new wardrobe!

Laces, cutwork, hand embroidery--these are the staples of heirloom sewing, that painstaking art of yesteryear that has all but disappeared. Who can afford the time required to master decorative needlework skills these days? Not many people. But most of us can spend a few hours--in some cases, only a few minutes!--to give new life to an already embellished linen.

How sewers have fallen in love with their sergers. But after they learn basic operations and are eager to explore more possibilities on their machines, they ask, 'What next?""