Not your grandma's sewing guide

[Greybird]

Amazon have just sent me their advert for this I took a "look inside" as suggested and it doesn't look like any other sewing book I've ever seen. Warning: anyone easily offended by blue language had probably better not look!

[Diane]

@Greybird  Oh my   

[Puzzler]

Not one I would buy but did have a giggle at the audacity of it all. Not sure what to make of the one star reviewers who didn’t avail themselves of the ‘look inside’ function or read some the reviews before purchasing. Let the buyer beware, indeed.

[Sandra]

  Goodness me.
It might be a good guide but it's been over-effed for me.

I'm ok with the occasional eff  but there are far too many there.

Sandra.
xxx

[Ohsewsimple]

Can’t really see the point of it. 

[Renegade Sewist]

She also does a "clean as heck" version for all the lightweights. 

As a person who hasn't had a good day unless I've dropped at least a dozen f bombs or variations thereof I like her attitude. Some great encouragement in the bits I could read.

Y'all have no idea the restraint I use here to limit myself to the occasional "ef that" or reference to "rodent's patootie". Absolutely no idea...

Let's see if the library will order a copy. 

[realale]

Well, as a grandmother I thought I'd better by pass it as it said it wasn't for me!! 

[HenriettaMaria]

I'm all for making sewing accessible to the smartphone-addicted Gen Zers, but using that much effin' swearin' is off-putting.  Apart from anything else, stumbling over the language gets in the way of clear comprehension.

I have enough needlework reference books, some over 90 years old, so I'll be giving it a pass!

[Iminei]

Ive just realised how ladylike Ive become (so Ya Boo Sucks to all the boys mothers who thought I was far too much of a hellraiser for their precious sons, tho I was always polite to 'my elders' and really didnt swear much even in the wrong company)

No, No, No ... I think it must be a gimmick to sell the book, but just NO!

[Sewingsue]

I swear, not as often as I did in my 20s and very much depending on the company I am in (in private is a whole different story).
I like the different angle of the book and might have bought it (you can't have too many books can you) but, even for me, she really has dropped the F-bomb too many times.

It stops having any point when scattered like confetti.

[BrendaP]

Yes, I think it's a gimmick to try and sell the book, but for me it had the opposite effect.

The occasional Eff when sometimes an expletive is really needed is OK, but when people use it all the time it's meaningless - rather like er, um ...  and just shows a lack of linguistic skill.  In a written book it's just distracting and takes away from what might otherwise be a good book - although I didn't bother reading enough of it to be sure how good it could have been.