This jargon-free, fully illustrated guide to using your sewing machine explains essential techniques and offers easy projects for getting started. Straightforward and accessible, Me and My Sewing Machine contains everything you need to know to get the most out of your sewing machine. There are no intimidating specialty techniques, painstaking procedures, or complicated methods. Instead you will find easy-to-understand, practical and decorative techniques that make sewing simple, even if you have never used a machine before. Author and professional crafter Kate Haxell shares clever tips and shortcuts, as well as advice on when you can use these speedy methods and when it really is better to do something the traditional way. Everything is illustrated with step-by-step photography and finished samples. Haxell also includes easy sewing projects that are simple without skimping on style.

With 35 projects that you'll love to make and a helpful techniques section, this book will teach you all about sewing machines. Start out with Clothes and Accessories, where you can make a felt collar and cosy scarf, as well as a pretty skirt.

A fresh and fun introduction to sewing on a machine for kids, this guide is perfect for budding little crafters. From threading up, to filling a bobbin, award winning author Jane Bull uses clear step-by-step instructions and photos to walk you through everything you need to know to get to grips with your machine. My Sewing Machine Book is packed with easy sewing projects, templates, and patterns to try, and your newly learned skills can then be put to the test with 20 creative and original projects to make - from bags and accessories, to colourful cushions and fabric toys.

Over 100,000 copies sold 'A tapestry of strong characters and accomplished writing' Herald Scotland It is 1911, and Jean is about to join the mass strike at the Singer factory. For her, nothing will be the same again. Decades later, in Edinburgh, Connie sews coded moments of her life into a notebook, as her mother did before her. More than a hundred years after his grandmother’s sewing machine was made, Fred discovers a treasure trove of documents. His family history is laid out before him in a patchwork of unfamiliar handwriting and colourful seams. He starts to unpick the secrets of four generations, one stitch at a time.

Demonstrates the parts of a sewing machine, threading the machine, turning corners, lock stitches, skills for clothing construction and easy clothes to make.

Demonstrates the parts of a sewing machine, threading the machine, safety and provides some easy projects to make.

Games and activities introduce children to the sewing machine and its parts and help develop beginning sewing skills. Instructions are included for simple projects to sew.