👗 Skirt-A-Day Sewing by Nicole Smith: Your Ultimate Guide to Creating Stylish Skirts - June 2013 Review

I am teaching one of our teenage daughters how to sew. I have found that most beginners can only follow the pattern strictly. This book contains some very cute ideas to expand your comfort zone and encourages creativity that seems like a leap of faith to most beginners. I would recommend it to anyone, although the book is aimed at young women, we older girls can use some of the ideas if we tweak them a bit. This is the best book on skirts I've found. I like it better than the book about Burda's

I read many reviews before buying this book and I was reassured when experienced people said it was for beginners. But when I bought it and saw all the sizes and numbers, I got scared. Then, a few days later, I picked it up again and read it more closely. That's when I realized that this book was exactly what I was looking for. I love skirts but all I can find in stores are pencil skirts and I wanted more. So I decided to learn to sew and sew myself. This book takes me step by step through the…

Kindle version is $2.50 for 28 skirt patterns. The ideas cover the entire range of styles, from youthful to classic style. Many (not all) can suit any age from teens to seniors with simple adjustments to hem length and/or fabric choice. A very good collection. There is a lot of basic information about designing clothes, tools for hand sewing, ironing, a catalog of machine needles and how to choose the right needle for a particular fabric, types of thread, various basic drawing tools and their…