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Romantic Home Sewing: Cottage-Style Projects to Stitch for the Home

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Manufacturer: Potter Craft

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If you long to give your rooms a vintage air and country-cottage appeal, you will love the retro floral prints and timeless designs of Romantic Home Sewing, the perfect guide to creating a handmade, easy elegance in your home. The book offers simple-sew projects to transform every room into the romantic retreat you’ve always wanted.

In this step-by-step guide, Christina Strutt, owner of the popular Cabbages & Roses fabric company, shows readers how to make a wealth of projects for the kitchen and bathroom, sunroom, and bedroom—and for gift giving, as well. A skilled stylist and designer, Strutt demonstrates how to create a look that is personal and unique, but not at all labor intensive. Reusing old fabrics and accessories in new ways allows the vintage and the modern to mingle beautifully—and also saves money and time.

The charming projects highlighted in this delightful illustrated book include crisp linen chair covers, a chic fabric headboard, pretty flower aprons, dreamy voile bed curtains, and soothing scented herbal pillows.

Even if you’ve never sewn a stitch before, Romantic Home Sewing will guide you through each technique for polished results.

If you desire a home filled with hand-finished, personal objects, let Christina Strutt be your guide. The result will be an oasis of comfort, whimsy, and true romanticism.

From the creative talent behind Britain’s beloved Cabbages & Roses vintage-style fabric company, Romantic Home Sewing includes thirty easy-to-sew projects that will transform your home into a warm, lovely tableau of hand-crafted detail. From pillows to aprons, duvet covers to lamp shades, Romantic Home Sewing is the ultimate guide to creating the inviting, charming home you crave—all with your own two hands.


PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS:

Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 646.21
EAN: 9780307345639
ISBN: 0307345637
Label: Potter Craft
Manufacturer: Potter Craft
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 144
Publication Date: 2006-11-14
Publisher: Potter Craft
Release Date: 2006-11-14
Studio: Potter Craft


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CUSTOMER REVIEWS:

How to make simple or ugly things with beautiful fabric -
I don't usually pan craft books, because there's so much out there to learn, I can usually glean something. But not in this one. I would never waste beautiful vintage fabrics on most of these projects, and if I did, I'd consider it step 1. As in, I stitched the simple pillow, now let's embellish it.

Easy sewing and rewarding projects -
I really love this book - simple but rewarding projects that most sewers would have no trouble with. lovely photography.

Romantic Home Sewing -
Excellent book! Christina Strutt had my tastes in mind when she wrote this book. It is for people who don't know much about sewing, love vintage fabrics and want to learn some ideas on how to use them. The pictures are beautiful and the instructions are clear.

a just OK book -
The pictures are nice , the fabric & the way it presents the instructions too.
That is all to it. Nothing more.

Lovely ideas, but a minor complication- -
The fabrics and patterns in this book are lovely. Photographic representation of all the projects are clear and wonderfully presented. The instructions seem clear (except I did find an important step for one of the handbags was omitted).

I give it 4 stars instead of 5 mainly because it contains templates that have to be enlarged on a copier instead of full-size patterns. It appears that is typical with sewing books, but it is an inconvenience and requires a trip to a copy store (plus the cost) since they need to be enlarged to such a degree, you cannot do it on a regular copier without great difficulty.

Fortunately there are only a few projects in this book that have templates - most of the crafts are going to be custom sized by you to fit your bed, chair, windows, etc, so templates would not be feasible.

However, I do recommend this book. I am happy to have it and I do not regret purchasing it. Christina Strutt's designs are sweet and warm and this book is a welcome addition to my collection.

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