[.uk] Reader's Digest Complete Guide to Sewing (ISBN 0895770261)

very god book:
I am teacher from Lithuania,the book's is very good.

Worth every penny:
Hands down THE BEST resource for sewers, novice and experienced. I find this version more helpful than the newer edition, the layout easier to follow and the illustrations a little more clear. If you sew, you should own it. Seriously.

Very useful, but dated:
I think I actually bought this book at a garage sale a long time ago. It is really useful, but as a reference. It's so dated that reading it would be basically useless. All of the styles and many of the techniques are either unpopular or obscelete. However, as a reminder of concepts it's great. When patterns don't make sense this is really helpful to figure out what the pattern is saying. If you want something more updated, I would assume the New Complete Guide to Sewing would be more helpful.

A good guide, but not the best nor the only guide to have:
This book was used as a text book for my sewing classes. My professor told us that this edition is MUCH better than the recent edition, and I believe her. Some of the instructions in this book are downright WRONG. It's obvious that an experienced seamstress was not consulted when the editing of this book was taking place. Some of the pattern alterations they picture are impossible to do in real life. So, this should not be your only resource book. However, there are instructions in it that are very useful, so I would consider this a decent purchase.

Great Sewing Book!:
This is a nice sewing book! It has LOTs of pictures and illustrations to ease the way. This particular version has a tailoring section if you want to make clothing items. It covers a lot of ground, Machines, stitches, hand stitching, and lotsa "how to". I refer to it a lot..