Front cover of Learn to Sew: Essential Skills to Start Making Clothes by Tilly Walnes, with sewing tools on a yellow background
Contents page from Learn to Sew: Essential Skills to Start Making Clothes by Tilly Walnes
Contents page from Learn to Sew: Essential Skills to Start Making Clothes by Tilly Walnes
Sewing machine with threading instructions on a yellow background
Page from a Learn to Sew book showing how to cut fabric using scissors and a rotary cutter.
Instructions on neatening seam allowances with text and images of fabric pieces.
Page from a Learn to Sew book showing instructions on inserting set-in sleeves with text and images of hands working on a sewing machine.
Instructions on flat-felled seams with text and photos.
Instructional page on attaching bias binding inside an edge with text and images of sewing process.
Page from a Learn to Sew book explaining how to construct a two-piece collar with diagrams and text.
Front cover of Learn to Sew: Essential Skills to Start Making Clothes by Tilly Walnes, with sewing tools on a yellow background
Contents page from Learn to Sew: Essential Skills to Start Making Clothes by Tilly Walnes
Contents page from Learn to Sew: Essential Skills to Start Making Clothes by Tilly Walnes
Sewing machine with threading instructions on a yellow background
Page from a Learn to Sew book showing how to cut fabric using scissors and a rotary cutter.
Instructions on neatening seam allowances with text and images of fabric pieces.
Page from a Learn to Sew book showing instructions on inserting set-in sleeves with text and images of hands working on a sewing machine.
Instructions on flat-felled seams with text and photos.
Instructional page on attaching bias binding inside an edge with text and images of sewing process.
Page from a Learn to Sew book explaining how to construct a two-piece collar with diagrams and text.

Learn to Sew - Essential Skills to Start Making Clothes

Pre-order your signed copy now ahead of the 19th March 2026 launch. Your book - along with any other items in the same order - will be dispatched for the mid-March launch. If you’d like other items to arrive sooner, please place a separate order.
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A must-have guide for budding sewists wanting to make clothes with confidence.

Learn to Sew provides all the sewing know-how you need to create the garments of your dreams. Perfect for beginner and developing stitchers, award-winning sewing author and pattern designer Tilly Walnes of Tilly and the Buttons demystifies the art of making clothes with refreshingly clear instructions, step-by-step photos, and her down-to-earth approach guiding you every step of the way.

Discover how to start using a sewing machine, choose the right fabric, work with sewing patterns, and construct clothing from scratch as Learn to Sew guides you through all the essential techniques, from structure to shaping, fastenings to finishes. 

Learn to Sew will be your ultimate handbook to come back to again and again, whatever you choose to make. 

Please note:
Some of the content in this book has been refreshed and updated from Love at First Stitch (2014).

Publisher: Quadrille Publishing Ltd

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160 page book, 215 x 165 x 15mm (no patterns included)

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