Offers guidance for sewing emergencies, teaching those who never learned how to thread a needle, sew on a button, darn a hole and more. This book helps you learn the real basics of hand and machine sewing, with photographs and instructions. It covers a range of different fastenings, instant fixes for emergencies, zips and closures, and seams.

The decorative and creative possibilities of freestyle embroidery are explored to the fullest in this indispensable book. Starting by covering basic techniques such as selecting fabrics and threads, transferring an embroidery design to fabric, and working with a hoop or frame, it goes on to explain 48 stitches in step-by-step detail. These are listed alphabetically, from Antwerp Edging to ...

This is the essential reference for anyone working with ribbon embellishments - for patchwork, quilting, heirloom sewing, applique, or cross stitch. Features over 60 ribbon designs, including flowers, animals, children's motifs, and seasonal themes such as Christmas and Halloween. Each design is charted for easy reference as well as photographed finished, and a simple key explains the order of ...

A collection of essays that examine a variety of science fiction forms, from literature to rock 'n' roll, and from film to anime and hypermedia, exploring such topics as generic transformation, the relationship of the body to technology, gender and sexuality, and the contemporary sense of an ending.

Explores contemporary science fiction literature and media as imaginative expressions of an already science-fictional present and as literal descriptions of postmodern culture. This book provides an overview of the state of contemporary science fiction.

Contestations over the meaning and practice of sexuality have become increasingly central to cultural self-definition and critical debates over issues of identity, citizenship and the definition of humanity itself. This book investigates contemporary and historical practices of representing sexualities and genders in science fiction literature.