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Sewing is an indispensable skill if you want to become more resourceful, enabling you to fix a button, mend a split seam, or even make your own clothes. This book starts with the basics, such as choosing your equipment and fabrics, before proceeding to guide you through a range of sewing projects, each of them accompanied by step-by-step illustrations and straightforward instructions. Budding stitchers will find themselves turning to these pages time and time again to help them master the essentials of this rewarding craft. The Anyone Can series has been created with the absolute beginner in mind as well as those who would welcome a refresher in the most popular needlecrafts. Other titles in the series are: Anyone Can Papercraft Anyone Can Knit

Designed for beginners, this guide offers a comprehensive, illustrated approach to sewing. It covers essential skills such as threading a needle, mastering basic stitches, and progressing to cutting and shaping fabric. The book also includes techniques for machine sewing, empowering readers to gain confidence in their sewing abilities.

This beautiful volume showcases, in full color, the works of one hundred of the world's greatest painters, from Giotto in the thirteenth century to Hockney in the twenty-first Arranged alphabetically for easy reference, each artist occupies a double-page spread that contains a selection of pictures, accessible text, and a biographical timeline. Set in their historical and cultural contexts, the characters, techniques, and fortunes of these one hundred masters are revealed. General readers, art students, and practitioners alike will pick up this book again and again, to check facts, browse among the pictures, and explore how great artists like Brueghel, Goya, Constable, and Picasso first captured our admiration, and why they remain influential