Your personal reference guide to designing, planning and sewing your own projects by Debbie Shore
Best-selling Search Press author Debbie Shore brings you all your essential sewing planning in one fabulous journal.
Highly commended in the 'Best Journaling Book' category at the Creative Book Awards, 2024.
Designed to be personalized, cherished and referred to for years to come, this gorgeous journal contains both essential, practical sewing information along with fill-in journal pages, designed to motivate, organize and invigorate your sewing journey.
Dotted throughout is essential practical guidance from Debbie, along with quick-reference conversion charts, personal insights, key know-how on subjects such as quilting and dressmaking, and top tips for effective project planning. Alongside this are the pages designed just for you. Keep all your measurements and project planning notes in one place; create wish lists, notes, doodles and sketches; and keep tabs on what's in your stash. The carefully considered project pages allow you to plan out 20 of your own sewing adventures, with space to write notes and fix in fabric swatches, and there are 12 monthly planners to organize your sewing year.
The handy compact size is perfect to slot into your sewing bag or take out when you're shopping for fabrics and project essentials. Free replacement planners can be printed from Bookmarked Hub.
Whether you are a complete beginner or a seasoned sewist, take Debbie's lead and be inspired to fill your journal with your own creative ideas that you can use, keep and cherish.
Table of Contents
Starting out 4
Introduction 4
How to use your journal 5
Setting your intentions 8
About me 10
Sewing essentials 16
All about fabrics 16
Your tool kit 38
Colour 50
Project planning 56
Project planners 60
Monthly planners 140
Sewing reference 154
Mending 155
Quilting 161
Dressmaking 166
Homewares 174
Sewing glossary 178
Final thoughts 180
Notes to my future self 181
Things I've accomplished 182
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About Debbie Shore
Debbie Shore is a best-selling and award-winning author. She began her career as a children's television presenter and since then has appeared regularly as an actress in various popular dramas and as a presenter on shopping channels. Debbie has developed her own range of fabrics, designed her own patterns, writes for several popular sewing magazines and has written over 30 books for Search Press with several more underway. Over 800,000 copies of her books have been sold worldwide. She is the winner of Craft Influencer of the Year 2020 in the Craft Business Awards, and Social Media Influencer of the Year 2019 in the British Sewing Awards.
Debbie has over 285,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel, which has over 30 million views. In 2018, Debbie launched her Half Yard Sewing Club, a monthly subscription service based on the mega-selling Half Yard series, and won the 2019 IPG Digital Publishing Award. For more details about the club visit
www.halfyardsewingclub.com.
Debbie lives in Lincolnshire, UK. Visit her website: www.debbieshoresewing.com
