Simple Sewing with a French Twist

Simple Sewing with a French Twist
Author: Céline Dupuy
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre: Fancy work
ISBN: 9780307351821

With easy-to-follow illustrations for 60 projects--ranging from caf curtains to reupholstered chairs and down-to-earth directions--readers will return to this volume as a cherished reference again and again. Its blend of clear instruction and chic design is an instant lesson in French style.

Homemade

Homemade
Author: Carol Endler Sterbenz
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 802
Release: 2011-10-18
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1416547177

Outlines key techniques for everything from scrapbooking and beading to flower arrangements and children's crafts, providing step-by-step, illustrated instructions and lists of required tooks and materials.

Mend It Better

Mend It Better
Author: Kristin M. Roach
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2012-03-01
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1603427783

Welcome to the new face of mending! Don’t hide patches — make them into bold, beautiful embellishments. Repair holes with colorful thread and a creative darning stitch, or use fun embroidery to bring new life to a stained shirt. With detailed step-by-step photography, Kristin Roach teaches you a wide range of patching, darning, and repair stitches using both hand and machine sewing. Revive your wardrobe with these traditional mending techniques to make worn-out clothing not just wearable, but better than ever.

Sewing Happiness

Sewing Happiness
Author: Sanae Ishida
Publisher: Sasquatch Books
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2016-04-19
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1570619964

Create Pinterest-worthy clothing, accessories, and more with this how-to guide and memoir featuring 20 meditative sewing projects, plus inspiring stories that promote creativity, happiness, and fulfillment. When Sanae Ishida was diagnosed with a chronic illness and lost her corporate job, she felt like her whole life was falling apart. Inspired to succeed at just one thing, Ishida vowed to sew all of her daughter’s clothes—and most of her own—for one full year. In Sewing Happiness, Ishida recounts her incredible journey, reflecting on how sewing helped her survive such a difficult time in her life. Sewing Happiness features twenty simple sewing projects (with variations) organized by season and tied together with a thread of memoir that tells the story Ishida’s unexpected transformation and how sewing brought her profound happiness. Each seasonal project—from Japanese-inspired home goods to children’s and women’s clothing—is specially designed to promote health, creativity, and relationships and to provide gentle inspiration to live your best life. Complete with photos and easy-to-follow steps, Sewing Happiness is at once a guide to the craft of sewing and a guide to enjoying life in all its beautiful imperfections.

Sew Over It Vintage

Sew Over It Vintage
Author: Lisa Comfort
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2020-04-23
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1473582903

**Includes simple and accessible instructions for how to cut your own patterns** Following on from her successful first book, Sew Over It Vintage is a brand new collection of fabulous projects from sewing expert Lisa Comfort. Inspired by Lisa’s love of vintage style and fashion, the stylish projects each have a vintage twist but still retain the modern style, allowing these pieces to work with and complement the rest of your wardrobe and your home. Featuring 25 projects, ranging from jewellery, hats, tops, dresses and bags, to cushions, lampshades, placemats, lanterns and a luxury chair pouffe, there are ideas for those who want to quickly create an accessory on a lazy afternoon as well as suggestions for those that want to invest their time in a large and impressive project. Every project has a clearly labeled skill level as well as step-by-step photography, ensuring the directions couldn’t be any easier to follow. And with instructions on how to draft your very own bodice block, all the clothing can be made to fit your body shape perfectly. There is no better way to inject some classic vintage style into your everyday life.

French Braid Quilts

French Braid Quilts
Author: Jane Hardy Miller
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 84
Release: 2010-11-05
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1607050641

Simple Piecing - Spectacular Quilts • One great technique, a variety of different looks! • LEARN TO USE VALUE: Create glowing effects by choosing a gradated range of fabrics. • Super-easy piecing means fast quilt construction • Make it yours with pretty borders, separator bands, and other creative variations Color is key when you "braid" a variety of fabrics into an eye-catching quilt. Learn to identify value in fabric and use it to create the effect you want-in these quilts and every quilt you make! Fourteen projects range from striking wall hangings to bed quilts.

French Braid Quilts with a Twist

French Braid Quilts with a Twist
Author: Jane Hardy Miller
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 84
Release: 2014-07-01
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1607058839

French Braid lovers won’t want to miss the latest evolution of Jane Hardy Miller’s wildly popular design series. Quilters have been asking for more, and Jane delivers with a collection of 8 vivid new quilts that give the French Braid some bold and surprising twists. You’ll want to try them all—from scrappy French Braids, to braids with variable widths and lengths, and much more. Easy strip piecing and clear instructions guarantee success for quilters of all levels. Collect all four of the best-selling French Braid quilt books.

Sewing Clothes Kids Love

Sewing Clothes Kids Love
Author: Nancy Langdon
Publisher: Creative Publishing International
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2010-02
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1589234731

Colourful and imaginative children's clothes to sew, designed with kids in mind. The patterns are sized from 18 months to kids size 12.

She Wears the Pants

She Wears the Pants
Author: Yuko Takada
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2015-05-12
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9784805313268

Sew edgy, urban clothes with this stylish sewing book and add a touch of originality to your wardrobe. More and more women are opting to make their own clothes, but most of the books on the market emphasize girly, feminine designs. She Wears the Pants is the first Japanese sewing book (in English) to focus on the increasingly popular "borrowed–from–the–boys" look. Already one of the best–known and reviewed sewing books in Japan, this sporty addition to the sew–it–yourself craze is poised to take the American DIY sewing market by storm. Sometimes women are in the mood for clothes with strong, clean lines and casual sophistication—polish and simplicity without the frills. She Wears the Pants is the book for those times. A graduate of the Bunka Fashion Institute, Yuko Takada provides patterns and instructions for making twenty spare and streamlined wardrobe items, including: Versatile tops that can be either casual or dressy Jackets that are timeless and unique Dresses and skirts that are straight-line or draped Three different pants lengths, from culottes to full-length trousers And much, much more! Patterns can be easily adjusted to suit any body size, and Takada shows readers how to select inexpensive, readily available fabrics and transform them into an elegant new wardrobe. Understated never looked so good!

A Stylish Guide to Classic Sewing

A Stylish Guide to Classic Sewing
Author: Sarah Gunn
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2019-11-08
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1617458732

The authors of The Tunic Bible craft a “clever guide to the DIY creation of tried and true staples of a woman’s wardrobe . . . truly inspiring” (Publishers Weekly). Discover the secrets to sewing a stylish wardrobe with staying power! This spirited guide walks you through thirty timeless garments to make for yourself, including a must-have button-up shirt, tailored trousers, a flattering A-line dress, and the indispensable modern classic pencil skirt. With a conversational narrative, the authors have created an engaging, informative guide to sewing by tracing the origins of each garment, along with styling and sewing tips, charming fashion illustrations, and a modeled photo gallery. Pencil skirt pattern and instructions included! “This delightfully illustrated book featuring a conversational narrative chronicles 30 beloved classic silhouettes that lie at the core of women’s wardrobes . . . Each garment chapter laced with fascinating facts and trivia tidbits gives new meaning to why we wear what we wear . . . [a] keen guide to creating a fresh collection of timeless garments.” —Elysian “It should be inspirational to those just beginning to sew for themselves as well as those who just aspire to it! . . . With this book in hand, you will both sew and dress with confidence and style.” —Fifty Dresses “This book is so well-written and the illustrations are amazing.” —Girls in the Garden