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Sandra Betzina Sews for Your Home: Pillows Window Treatments Slipcovers Table Coverings Kids' Accessories

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Manufacturer: Taunton

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Best-selling author Sandra Betzina has teamed with interior designer Debbie Valentine to produce a home decorating book that is stylish and appealing. This book includes dozens of projects for sewers at every skill level, along with complete step-by-step instructions and more than 400 color photos and illustrations. Betzina is renowned in the sewing world, and this is the next installment in her line of very successful sewing books.
-- Includes dozens of projects that can be personalized to suit every taste and skill level
-- Complete step-by-step instructions included for every project


PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS:

Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 646.21
EAN: 9781561584468
Format: Illustrated
ISBN: 1561584460
Label: Taunton
Manufacturer: Taunton
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: 2002-08-15
Publisher: Taunton
Release Date: 2002-08-15
Studio: Taunton


SIMILAR ITEMS:

• More Fabric Savvy: A Quick Resource Guide to Selecting and Sewing Fabric Completely Revised and Updated
• Fast Fit: Easy Pattern Alterations for Every Figure
• Power Sewing Step-by-Step
• Sewing Stylish Home Projects: Over 30 Accessories for Your Home
• Sewing Edges & Corners: Decorative Techniques for Your Home and Wardrobe (An Embellishment Idea Book Series)


CUSTOMER REVIEWS:

Handy reference -
As with any "project" book, the projects featured in this book are pretty specific to certain styles or needs. However, unlike a lot of project books, it is easy to take the basic concepts and techniques and apply them to your own unique requirements. I am combining techniques from several different projects in the book to make a large window seat and coordinating valance for my kids' room. The instructions and photos have been very helpful to me, a novice sewer.

Uninspired -
Sandra Betzina is wonderfully talented when it comes to garment contstruction. I have several of her books and love them. However, her expertise and creativity do not seem to extend to home sewing. The projects in this book are not inspiring. The fabric choices are questionable. It is difficult to glean the 'tricks of the trade' as this book is organized entirely by project, not technique. Save your money. If you are truly interested, check it out from the library before you invest in this publication.

Down to earth useful book -
I received this book as a gift and am buying it for a friend. I found the instructions down to earth and based around how to create patterns for furniture, windows, pillows etc in a non-intimidating way.

Some creative ideas that I haven't seen before (like a house for kids designed to fit over a card table.

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