Sewing is more than a time-honored skill. With Sewing Clothes-Elevate Your Sewing Skills, it can be an art form you can use to express your unique tastes in fashion! Author Joi Mahon follows up her successful Ultimate Illustrated Guide to Sewing Clothes with another wonderfully comprehensive instructional book. Inside, you'll unspool a lifetime's worth of sewing lessons to fully develop your creativity thanks to illustrations and photo step-outs to guide your way. These will steer you through 30 sewing techniques, from changing design lines to honeycomb smocking. Its "stitch dictionary" lets you choose your style of couture work and create beautiful embroidery, like monograms. Designed for easy skimming to choose your own lessons, Sewing Clothes-Elevate Your Sewing Skills is about putting your unique twists on your favorite techniques. You'll learn edge finishing techniques and embellishments, like silky fringes and bias straps, and you'll master different styles of stitches and seams. You'll also learn to work with your favorite fabrics-from heavy wools to delicate lace-so every embellishment enhances the kinds of clothes you most enjoy.

With Joi's sewing formula that consists of appropriate fabric selection, the correct pattern, a perfect fit, and quality sewing techniques, you will create well-designed and expertly made garments every time you sew! 30 sewing techniques, honeycomb smocking, decorative edge trimming, couture passementerie braided trims, and more, Illustrations and photographs to guide you through each process in step-by-step detail, Dedicated sections for your favorite fabrics, from the lightest and most delicate options to heavy wool, Creative options for classic sewing techniques, like hemming, so you can apply your creative flair to almost any sewing project.