[.ca] Sewing 911: Practical and Creative Rescue for Sewing ... (ISBN 1561584444)

From Amazon.com:
Even sewing experts occasionally run into sewing emergencies, and for many of us they can happen all too often. If you're tired of coping with accidental snips, fabric shortages, bungled buttonholes, lopsided hems, gapping necklines, and any number of other mishaps, check out Barbara Deckert's Sewing 911. Loaded with practical advice and laced with humor, this terrific guide offers at-a-glance troubleshooting for more than 65 common sewing calamities. So the next time an ill-timed phone call causes an ironing accident or that pair of pants you worked so hard on winds up too short or too tight, instead of panicking or cursing (or both!), turn to Sewing 911 to rescue your garment with confidence. --Amy Handy

Sewing 911:
This is an excellent book for "disaster contros" for the inexperienced or experienced sewer (I hesitate to say "seamstress--probably not politically correct). She has a wealth of very practical advice for fixing or disguising problems ranging from scorched places from errant iron placement to creative solutions when suddenly you discover that there isn't enough fabric. She has an extensive section on stain removal, which is extremely useful. She knows what to do when that garment that one just lengthened still bears the tell-tale line where the hem was. She knows what to do when that buttonhole on the front of your garment looks bad or is too big or too small. She not only tells and has illustrations showing how to mend spots where there is a hole or the seam is trimmed too close or cut clear through; she also has very creative suggestions to disguise such things when mending them isn't practical. She knows how to fix it if the right and left sides of the front of a double breasted garment are not the same length, or if the underneath layer sags. This is a really useful book for anyone who sews. It opens up to lie flat so that as one works on a problem, using the book as a guide, one doesn't have to fight the book to make it stay open. The book, itself, does not present yet another problem. I highly recommend this book as an ideal gift for anyone who sews, including one's self.

Sewing 911 Came to My Rescue!:
Don't feel like the Lone Ranger if you make an occasional sewing boo-boo. We all do, and author Barbara Deckert encourages us, through her imaginative examples, to find fashionable fixes for those annoying errors. Pesky puckers on a lapel? Neckline gaping immodestly? Bungled buttonhole? Now there's no need to toss that garment aside in frustration. Barbara addresses these and dozens more sewing emergencies with highly creative but perfectly do-able solutions. Concise, engaging, and packed with information, Sewing 911 will take the stress out of those inevitable sewing mistakes by sparking the sewer's aptitude for creative problem solving. I finished this book in one sitting because I was so riveted by the possibilities. Find out how disguising an accidental snip in your fabric can actually take your garment to the next level - from ordinary to designer-detail stunning. Sewing enthusiasts have long needed an author who is not afraid to admit that she, too, encounters the occasional "oops!" Barbara Deckert has made this taboo topic highly approachable and even fun to deal with. Sewing 911 is a must-have reference for every sewer's shelf.

Good info,, especially if you've been at it a while.:
I haven't been able to really use this book quite the way I thought, but it has come in handy quite a few times. Very good for those "oops" moments!