Hardcover book with 403 pages of detailed sewing instructions from coats to hats and home furnishings... too.
Sewing Made Easy - New Revised Edition by Mary Lynch & Dorothy Sara
The ultimate source for everything you ever wanted to know about sewing.
Make your clothes and your home reflect your own ideas. The beginner will get detailed yet easy-to-follow instruction materials making it easy to work along with any pattern selected. In no time, beginners will be mastering all the fundamental steps in sewing, altering, or restyling a garment. The experienced sewer will welcome the short cuts and new tips and techniques that give that custom look to your sewing. Over 85 new or redrawn illustrations cover the pertinent steps of how to understand, use, and alter your pattern to suit your figure. Special adjustments that may be needed in a number of areas-bodice, shoulder line, etc.-are explained, as well as the tailoring steps to makes pants fit correctly.
Chapters on sewing children's clothes, accessories and gifts to make, and sewing for the home contribute to making Sewing Made Easy a complete sewing library in one volume, an indispensable book for anyone who sews or is eager to learn.
The corners and edges are worn with the top corners pretty badly broken. No dust jacket, binding is good, I see some yellowing and there is crayon on pages 100 and 101, edges are very dusty.