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Core Sewing Resources

Husqvarna Viking Emerald 118 User Guide
Comprehensive user guide for the sewing machine owned by the library.

Singer New Sewing Essentials
Call Number: TT705 .N49 2008
ISBN: 9781589234321
Publication Date: 2008
Singer: The Complete Photo Guide to Sewing, 3rd Edition by Nancy Langdon
Call Number: TT713 .L36 2018
ISBN: 9781589238978
Publication Date: 2017
The Sewing Bible by Ruth Singer
Call Number: TT705 .S527 2008
ISBN: 9780307462374
Publication Date: 2009
Designing Clothes with the Flat Pattern Method by Sara Alm
ISBN: 9781631593604
Publication Date: 2017-05-01
Ebook

Get into Knitting by Janice Dyer
ISBN: 9780778726470
Publication Date: 2016
Ebook

Ravelry
A huge online community of fiber artists featuring hundreds of thousands of patterns. The site does require you to make an account, but it's free, as are over 300,000 of the patterns available through the site.

The Reinhold Book of Needlecraft by Jutta Lammèr
Call Number: TT750.L2413 1973
ISBN: 9780442246716
Publication Date: 1973

Good Housekeeping
Full-text access to this long-running magazine through several databases. Easily searchable for sewing- and crafting-related material.
The Pattern Project
An array of historical sewing patterns, digitized and made freely available by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Do It Yourself
Full text access to this magazine, which includes some sewing tutorials, from March 2017 to the present.
Easy Does It Needlework and Crafts
Short run available through Edgewood (April 1994 to September 1995), but nonetheless contains many practical patterns and articles.