The Sewing Book

November 11, 2025

Everything you need to know to sew your own clothes and home furnishings.

Demystify your sewing machine and get to grips with essential techniques with The Sewing Book This bestselling guide covers over 300 techniques with illustrated step-by-step sequences, showing you how to create everything from seams and hems to darts, gathers, and collars.

Discover how to read a pattern and adapt designs to suit your measurements, get to grips with tools and materials, and find the best fabrics to suit whatever you want to make. Complete with ten homeware and clothing projects to help you put your new-found skills to the test, The Sewing Book shows you everything you need to know, stitch by stitch.

Download the patterns following the links below. For instructions on putting your patterns together, please see The Sewing Book p343.