Title: Reference manual
Review: This is an excellent reference manual; however, like most manuals these days, it becomes obsolete very quickly. It's a good book to have on hand for a beginner or someone returning to sewing after a long hiatus who never sewed that much to begin with, because it goes into just about everything - needles, threads, fabric, patterns, sewing techniques, problem solving. It is a big book, like a lot of the Readers Digest reference books, and so may end up just sitting somewhere because it is too big to leave in easy reach.
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