Warning: Sew Your Own can change your life

“Look what you've done to me!” wrote Joe McAllister, of north east London. After finishing Sew Your Own, he went out at once to buy a hand-powered sewing machine.

“I bought it off eBay for 99p, picked it up last night, so far I've stitched a napkin in multiple directions, which was fun – I didn't make the napkin, I just stitched it up, big time!”