Fine Machine Sewing: Easy Ways to Achieve Precision in Your Sewing

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Excerpted from Fine Machine Sewing

Fine Machine Sewing: Easy Ways to Achieve Precision in Your Sewing

Save time and eliminate eyestrain and frustration with these techniques for accurate stitching

by Carol Laflin Ahles

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Whatever your level of sewing experience, you can achieve high-quality machine stitching, finishing, and embellishing without headaches. In Fine Machine Sewing, sewing instructor Carol Laflin Ahles shares the know-how she's learned from years of researching, teaching, and practicing sewing. Her techniques may seem like extra work in the beginning, but they will save you time and effort in the end. And you'll be rewarded with exquisite garments and home accents you created yourself.

In this excerpt, you'll learn ways to achieve precise, accurate, professional-looking results with much less effort than you might have expected.

Carol Laflin Ahles is a lifelong sewer and former fabric-store owner and machine dealer. She has taught thousands of students in North American and Australia how to use any sewing machine to its fullest potential. She is a frequent contributor to Creative Needle and Threads magazines. Visit Carol on the Web at www.carolahles.com.

Photos: Jack Deutsch, Scott Phillips

From Fine Machine Sewing,
pp. 26-41