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Craft books: Weekend Sewing

If you're after a gorgeous book to motivate you to use your sewing machine, you can't do better than this. It has more than 40 super-pretty, relatively simple and thoughtfully explained projects for clothes, accessories and things for the home that will have you itching to get sewing, and comes with its own pattern-sheets neatly tucked into each cover. It reads like the author's scrapbook, with lists of her favourite music to sew to, and thoughts on sewing with children and setting up your own sewing space at home.

Weekend Sewing, Heather Ross (Stewart, Tabori & Chang, £14.99), www.amazon.co.uk