Sew Stylish : Easy-Sew Ideas for Customizing Clothes and Home Accessories

by EBBEN, KATIE

• ISBN13: 9780307336637
• ISBN10: 0307336638
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2006-02-14
• Publisher: Potter Craft

Summary

Designer looks. Creative know-how. Use-what-you-have ingenuity. Thrift meets craft inSew Stylish, as author Katie Ebben presents easy sewing techniques to help you embellish, reinvent, and recycle everyday clothing and accessories. Whether it's trimming a plain shirt with a ribbon, lengthening curtains with a false hem, or patching the elbow of a cardigan, each project blends sewing instruction and creative inspiration simply and wonderfully. Chapters focus on trimming, patching, hemming, darning and disguising, customizing, and reinventing, with step-by-step instructions and drawings to ensure polished results on the first try. Easy-sew ideas for customizing clothes and home accessories. Make it quick; make it your own.Sew Stylishoffers simple makeovers for everything from jeans to sweaters to off-the-rack basics. Author Katie Ebben presents a modern twist on traditional sewing techniques and demonstrates clever ways to embellish, reinvent, and transform items for home and wardrobe. Eighteen inspiring projects incorporate everything from beading and applique to hemming and trimming. The approach is fun and lighthearted, and the clearly illustrated step-by-step instructions provide foolproof formulas to give soft furnishings and clothing a new lease on life.

Author Biography

Katie Ebben trained as a printed textile designer before completing postgraduate studies in art and design history. She was deputy editor of Elle Decoration and editor of Kitchens, Bedrooms & Bathrooms magazine. Katie now works as a freelance interior stylist and writer and is coeditor of Coast magazine. She lives in the United Kingdom.

Chris Tubbs is a lifestyle, interiors, and portrait photographer whose work is regularly featured in magazines such as Elle Decoration and Elle.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 6
Trimming	p. 8
Deep-Fringed Lampshade	p. 12
Ribbon-Trimmed Pillowcases	p. 14
Silk-Edged Top	p. 16
Patching	p. 20
Pretty Elbow Patch	p. 24
Floral Jeans Patch	p. 26
Patchwork Footstool	p. 30
Hemming	p. 34
Recreated Curtains	p. 38
Tier-Hemmed Skirt	p. 40
Lace-Topped Sheets	p. 44
Darning & Disguising	p. 48
Silk Corsages	p. 52
Floral Applique	p. 54
Vintage Lace Cardigan	p. 58
Customizing	p. 62
Ribbon-Threaded Blanket	p. 66
Buckle & Ribbon Cushion	p. 68
Sequinned Top	p. 72
Reinventing	p. 76
Lacy Clutch Bag	p. 80
Handkerchief Tablecloth	p. 84
Pompom Cushion	p. 86
Templates	p. 90
Addresses	p. 92
Index	p. 94
Acknowledgments	p. 96
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