Franca

Kathleen,
You’ve talked about a book for years now. What would you want to call it? I know that a full scale book is a huge undertaking, so I want to encourage you to ‘train up’ to it. How about collecting the tutorials you have now and putting them in a small, spiral bound (I hate to say book)– book.
Sell this to us folks so we can use it as a reference, and so that you get just compensation for all the work that has gone into creating these wonderful tutorials over the years. As time passes and you create more tutorials, so can create new, expanded additions without having to completely recreate the book.

I also wonder if it would provide more psychological pressure on those who reference your techniques without crediting you. Blogs are new school, folks don’t treat them the same as old school printed references. Maye a printed resource would be cited more. Then again, some folks are just so desperate for attention they’ll steal credit from anyone.

This is really just a long winded thanks for your efforts and sharing.

“What readers will find useful”: a newbie home sewist tells all!…In regard to “Another Book About Sewing” book, this is what I’d like to know: How should a home sewist should approach a sewing project? I’ll need a pattern that fits–which pattern size should I choose, and what should I do if I don’t fit into any of the listed sizes, and how do I take my measurements, let alone adjust the pattern to fit me assuming I’m different from the listed measurements? …

Sorry I overlooked this comment from so long ago. I can’t write this book you describe. Knowing so little about home sewing, I’m far from qualified. There’s a lot of books in that space but none in industrial sewing and we really need one. Minimally, I can write a beginning industrial sewing book. I do think that much of it could also be useful to enthusiasts but you’d have to adapt the instruction to suit your purposes which is no different from what an industrial operation would do. The difference is, we know we need to vary sewing processes to meld with our desired finish, equipment we have at our disposal and lastly, the skills our operators have or could be trained to acquire.

The only way around it would be to write a book covering only one specific product class -say coats- something I’ve thought about. Even then it would be a very long book because for industry, it would have to cover the gamut of complexity in coat making and also, the different kinds of sewing options that exist across various price point categories.