Good housekeeping's complete book of needlecraft

by Vera P. Guild

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0007E895C
• Release Date: January 1959
• Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc.
• Length: 498 Pages
• Weight: 2.96 lbs.

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More than 1400 how-to-do-it illustrations 24 pages of photographs in full color.With this book you can acquire the skills you need to create a dress (in the color and style you like best), tailor a suit, make gorgeous furnishings, do beautiful crochet, embroidery, and needlepoint designs, enliven a room at minimum cost, and fill your leisure time with creative and profitable activity. Even if you've never threaded a needle before.This is a major revision and expansion of the book that has led its field for over a decade. It still covors the whole world of needle arts (unlike other sewing books). And it has added lots of new techniques that are especially popular now-crewel embroidery and needlepoint, for example. Macrame, the art of decorative knotting, is a current rage, so there's an entire new chapter on it. Almost all of the suggested things-to-make have been replaced with exciting new versions, each one illustrated with a picture showing how the finished item will look. Many also have how-to-do-it diagrams.SEWING. Basic stitches; how to cut, fit, and finish a dress; lining, pleats, tucks, darts, pockets, buttonholes; tailoring; pattern alteration; solutions to unusual sewing porblems.EMBROIDERY. Choosing threads and fabrics; over 50 basic stitches with countless variations; combining stitches; crewel embroidery.QUILTING. Directions for piece-and-quilt-as-you-go, biscuit, pieced, applique, and crazyquilt patchwork quilts, with patterns; Italian quilting; stuffed quilting; caring for quilts.SMOCKING. Directions for English smocking, preparation of material and suggested designs. Also mock and "box pleat" smocking.NEEDLEPOINT. Types of canvas and designs; gros point, petit point, and other stitches; piecing, blocking, and mounting finished work.RUG MAKING. Hooked, braided, canvas, and crocheted rugs; patterns for rugs.KNITTING. Guide to yarns, needles, and size charts; key to knitting abbreviations; all the basic and decorative stitches; patterns for baby clothes, classic sweaters, dresses, suits. CROCHETING. Guide to thread, needles and crocheting abbreviations; basic and intricate stitches; patterns for baby clothes, dresses, sweaters, place mats, toys, other items.TATTING AND NETTING. Discussion of shuttles and threads; chart of abbreviations; how to tat edgings, bootees, doilies, tablecloths; how to do netting.MACRAME. Guide to materials and various types of knots; instructions and designs for belts, stoles, pillows, tassels, wall hangings.HAND WEAVING. Instructions for setting up a loom, threading it, weaving; various types of weaving, including tapestry.SEWING FOR THE HOME. How to measure, cut, and fit slipcovers, draperies, and curtains; how to make cafe curtains. Austrian shades, sheer curtains, pillows, and bedspreads.MACHINE EMBROIDERY. General rules; designs; types of machine embroidery, including borders, applique, monograms, buttonholes.MENDING AND CARE. Darning; patching; mending net and lace; reclaiming wool; care of laces, linen