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(More customer reviews)Susan Huxley and crew have done it again. Like their earlier "almost a textbook" classic, "Sewing Secrets from the Fashion Industry," their new book covers introductory basics and proceeds through an alpha section on specific techniques. The introductory section includes pages and pages of charts on threads, stitches, needles and special use stitches. All include clear photographs, careful descriptions and appropriate uses. The photographs of current machines get right IN there better than you can right in front of your own machine. To whet your appetite for decorative serging there follows a photo gallery of dozens of gorgeous garments serged with techniques explained in the encyclopedic section. The encylopedic section covers just about every decorative serger technique conceivable plus some. There are twenty-one pages on heirloom sewing alone and seven different decorative uses for flatlocking. Each entry provides the details on machine settings, feet, fabric, threads and notions. The detail is summarized for each in a sidebar; the accompanying text goes into more detail and the photographs are actually helpful. The five authors of this book have produced some absolutely gorgeous wearable art - that is actually wearable. Agnes Mercik's bomber jackets will have you all running to the fabric stores to get your own jackets started. Linda Lee Vivian and Mary Griffin's heirloom sewing make make me give up Victoria's Secret - I'll do my own lingerie now thank you. Ok so there are some 'goofyisms' in the text -- probably the editorial team should have made sure the whole thing was reviewed by at least one of the five authors. For example, the caption under one photograph of the guts of a five thread machine (I happen to own the same model) states that all three loopers are never threaded at the same time. Oops. Of course they are -- you don't get a five thread stitch otherwise. Just as in "Sewing Secrets from the Fashion Industry" you chalk some stuff off as endearing oversights. ("Sewing Secrets" advocates trimming most seam allowances BEFORE sewing. And how, one asks, would one do any fitting adjustments then?) So what?! You wouldn't be referring to this book if you didn't even know how to thread your machine. Are you ready to really push the serger envelope past overlocking edges? Grab this book at this great price and get your serger screaming!
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Serger Secrets: High-Fashion Techniques for Creating Great-Looking ClothesSerger secrets is the best serger sewing book you'll ever own!America's top serger experts share the most popular and innovative ideas for making gorgeous garments with a serger.From pintucking and piping to quilting, shirring, and inserting a zipper-- this book has the step-by-step instructions and detailed photographs sewers need to get the most from their sergers. In Serger Secrets you'll find:* 500 photos-- one for every step of every technique* 121 solutions to 39 problems you may have with your serger* 58 techniques-- all with step-by-step instructions* Dozens of inspiring photographs of completed garments* 60 pages of expert advice to help you master your serger
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