Thousands of people buy a basic sewing machine and never get it out of its box, lacking the confidence to get started and daunted by off-putting manuals. This book will change all that. Sewing machine guru and popular author, Wendy Gardiner, has written a user-friendly guide to using a basic sewing machine, with the elements you would get in a manual, naming parts, showing how to thread up, checking stitching and tension, etc, followed by a section building skills as you start using a sewing machine. This is followed by nine great projects. There is a glossary of all the important terms, and an excellent trouble-shooting guide.