Learn how to sew using a sewing machine with this beginner's manual by Marie Clayton. Spread over 144 pages, this book will help you choose a machine and includes step-by-step instructions on setting up your machine and the basic functions common to most machines. With plenty of information on basic dressmaking techniques, you will soon be tackling seams and hems, zips and buttonholes, gathers and pleats and binding and trimming.