Research Guides: Creating at Cline Library: Sewing/Knitting

Sewing and Knitting

Cline Library MakerLab and Creative Commons has a variety of materials you can use for sewing and knitting including sewing machines, donated fabric & fabric scraps, clothing patterns, knitting needles, crochet hooks, and yarn.

Threading a Sewing Machine

The Cline Library MakerLab offers both sewing and knitting tools which are available for use at all times the library is open.

Hand Sewing

This video has six of the basic stitches to use when hand sewing.

This video shows how to sew a button on fabric. Includes examples for a two hole button, a four hole button and a shank hole button.

Crocheting

Knitting

Books available in Cline Library

How Patterns Work by Assembil Books Staff
Call Number: TT520 .H69 2013
ISBN: 1481959093
Publication Date: 2013-03-12
When you are trying to learn something new, the best teachers are often the ones who will walk you slowly through all of the basics in a way that is straightforward and easy to understand. It is this approach to learning that has lead us to create "How Patterns Work", so that those who wish to learn pattern making can have a simplified and streamlined introduction to all of the fundamental principles that lie at the core of pattern making.