All Access Sewing
This is a sewing book with a difference
Our clothes are a huge part of our identities; a way to express ourselves. What we wear can make us feel incredible or invisible; comfortable or in pain; stylish or drab.
But imagine if …
- none of your clothes actually fit
- they all caused you pain or made you feel invisible
- you just couldn’t find clothes that fitted your needs and your body
- the clothes you wore actually made you unwell
- you couldn’t get yourself dressed and had to rely on other people.
Well, that’s the reality for 1 in 5 people in the UK and 1 in 4 in the USA. Even in the 21st century, clothing doesn’t cater for disabled people. And this needs to change.
This book shows everyone – whatever your ability or challenge – how to embrace sewing as a craft, and adapt your own wardrobe to accommodate your every need.
Tips, tricks, hacks, and tools, all designed to make your sewing journey an All-Access one.
This is the ramp of sewing books – giving you all access to sewing
All Access Sewing Stretch Ruler
Our stretch ruler is specially designed to make working with stretch fabrics easier. Dyslexia and discalculia friendly, with an additonal table of numbers that removes the need to do the ‘maths’, this ruler will make your stretch sewing jobs easier and more accessible.
Button Head Pins
These quirky and cute straight pins have a button shaped head making them easy to grip.
Clover Self Threading Needles
A set of 5 assorted size needles from Clover with cleverly designed eyes making them much easier to thread. Simply slot the thread into the opening at the top if the needle and the thread will slide into the eye effortlessly!
Curved Safety Pins 150 pieces
Large safety pins with a curved shape traditionally used in quilting. The curved design means the pin feeds itself back up through the fabric making them much easier to grip and use than traditional safety pins.
Easy Grip Pattern Weight Kit
This kit comes with everything you need to make four easy grip pattern weights that will hold your pattern in place without the need for pins.
Kit includes:
1 x fat quarter of cotton fabric (fabric design is sent at random, please select your preferred main colour)
4 x heavy duty weights
4 x plastic rings
Bag of wadding
Paper template
Full accessible instructions
Easy Grip Pins
One of our most popular products! Straight pins with an ergonomically designed head for easy grip action. Very useful if gripping traditional pins is challenging.
Fiskars Spring Loaded Shears
These amazing fabric shears have a spring loaded mechanism significantly reducing the effort required to use them. With an ergonomically shaped handle for easy grip, and all the quality you would expect from Fiskars, these shears make cutting your fabric easier and can help reduce hand fatigue.
Fiskars Spring Loaded Snips
These amazing snips have a spring loaded mechanism significantly reducing the effort required to use them. With an ergonomically shaped handle for easy grip, and all the quality you would expect from Fiskars, these snips are a pleasure to use in your crafting and can help to reduce hand fatigue.
Gutermann Textile Glue Stick
An easy to use temporary adhesive glue stick that can be used to hold sewing projects together temporarily in place of pins or clips ready for sewing. The adhesive will hold securely but won’t clog up your sewing needle.
Hemline Suction Retractable Tape Measure
This tape measure is fully retractable meaning it won’t drag along the floor and can be tidied away at the press of a button. The handy suction cup on the base means this tape measure can be fixed to a work surface and locked in place meaning this tape measure can be used one handed.
Laundry Stamp Kit
Laundry Care Stamp Set ideal for reproducing laundry care symbols into garments when labels have been removed. Kit comes with stamp set, three different colour inks, acrylic stamping block, accessibility aid suction handle, and full instructions.
Laundry Stamp Set
Laundry Care Stamp Set ideal for reproducing laundry care symbols into garments when labels have been removed. Set comes with full instructions.
Milwards Symmetrical Rotary Cutter 45mm
The symmetrical design of this Milwards rotary cutter means it can be used horizontally or vertically making it incredibly versatile if handling a regular rotary cutter is challenging. Its 45mm blade can be switched to a pinking blade for easy pinking too!
Multicoloured Tape Measure 150cm/60”
This multicoloured tape measure is designed using blocks of colour to indicate 10cm sections. This is great if following numbers or keeping track of measurements is a challenge as it makes it very visually clear.
This product comes in blue, yellow and pink – this will be selected at random however if you have a strong preference please leave a note on your order at checkout and we will try our best to accommodate based on stock levels, however this cannot be guaranteed.
Needle Puller Tool
This incredible sewing gadget is our best seller and can revolutionise your craft if manipulating pins and needles can be a challenge. The easy to use clamp mechanism grips the pin or needle and helps pull it through even the most challenging of fabrics. A three-in-one tool, the needle puller tool also contains a thread cutter and has a built in thimble.