Designer looks. Creative know-how. Use-what-you-have ingenuity. Thrift meets craft in Sew 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 Stylish offers 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 appliqué 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.

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

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Ebben, Katie

Crafts & Hobbies

Potter Craft

It’s a question every sewing enthusiast askswhat to do with all those leftover odds and ends? Wonder no more, because you can take those scrap fabrics, buttons, lace remnants, and other materials and create this vast assortment of fun and creative projects. Using buttonhole and chain stitches, make a Decorated Apron with fabric adornments such as appliqués. Join multiple fabrics to put together a Patchwork Tea Cozy and Coffeepot Sleeve, or rest easy on a Silk Scarf Bolster pillow. They’re all simple enough for novices to tackle, but offer intermediate and even advanced crafters a wealth of great ideas. Embroidery, sewing, using ribbons and trims, and patchwork techniques are all covered, as are sewing box basics.

Fabric Scrapping: Creative and Fun Sewing Ideas for the Home

Sterling

An informative volume on decorative techniques, offering ideas on how to revitalize your old walls, create an eye-catching or simple background, or merely add a touch of visual interest to your room, this title serves as a comprehensive guide to decorating, disguising and transforming your walls. Walls define a room and mark out separate zones within a home. In addition, they are also blank canvases that can define or enhance a room design, and we are now beginning to pay them due attention and consideration. Alongside this is a revival of decorating techniques and styles that, until recently, were thought of as old-fashioned and fussy paint techniques such as sponging, colour washing, textured cork tiles, and, at the forefront, wallpaper. "Wall Effects" shows you how to use these techniques with confidence and style and in a contemporary manner.

Wall Effects

Conran

Color, texture, pattern: this inspirational and informative guide makes balancing these three principles simple, so stitchers can produce innovative and clever effects. A section on design shows how to combine different color palettes, mix repeating patterns, vary fabric weights, and scatter faux fur or cozy knits throughout a room for a stunning result. The more than 20 projects for every level—from a devoré lampshade with black fringe to a romantic satin silk quilted bedcover—maximize the decorative potential of fabric. Designer case studies illustrate a broad range of styles, including Tricia Guild’s bold palette of colors on richly textured velvets and Rachel Ashwell’s blending of quintessential English faded florals with flea market finds.

Stitch It: Over 20 Specially Commissioned Projects for Stylish Soft Furnishings

Basic Stitches (Craft Queen S.)

Conran Octopus

If your hand sewing is limited to the mending-when-necessary variety—stitching on buttons, repairing split seams—then you already have the skills necessary to make every project here. These 18 inventive projects for embellishing and personalizing clothes and soft furnishings are organized around the six basic and easy embroidery stitches: cross, blanket, line and chain, satin, feather, and insertion. Stylish photography and helpful line drawings outline every step, and a complete template guide is included, so in no time complete beginners will be stitching away. Take items from your home or wardrobe and with a few turns of the needle produce a 1920’s-style floral skirt, a silk scarf with daisies dancing along the border, or an elegant two-toned cross-stitched tablecloth.

Basic Stitches

White walls are blank canvases with the potential to establish a subtle backdrop for a room or define its style. This comprehensive sourcebook of innovative ideas contains hundreds of decorating techniques designed to add a touch of visual interest everywhere in the home. From varnishes to pigments and limewashing to sgraffito, every eye-catching transformation is accompanied by an enticing photograph, materials list, and thorough instructions. Alongside thoroughly modern styles, the classic, standard, and even the old-fashioned techniques are reinvented by changing color, scale, and texture. A recipe and skills section, and separate chapters for pattern, texture, color, and style, provide all the information needed.

Wall Effects: A Comprehensive Guide to Decorating, Disguising and Transforming Your Walls

Tapping into the thrifty vibe of the moment, Fabric Scrapping illustrates how to revamp and reinvent, as well as how to make use of beautiful textiles and trimmings. This is the perfect book for anyone who compulsively collects fabric remnants or who can't bear to part with a much-loved dress that no longer. In Fabric Scrapping, craft queen Katie Ebben shares her brilliant ideas for putting all those scraps to good use, with a collection of super-stylish projects for using up all your gorgeous remnants. As well as explaining how to make an array of furnishings and accessories for all around the home from scratch, Katie shows lots of creative ways to customize bought items with ribbons, trim and applique, and give a new lease of life to vintage fashions, faded bed linen and retro drapes. The projects, illustrated with step-by-step photographs, take you through a variety of old-fashioned techniques, and inspirational spreads show mood boards of materials, textures, ribbons and buttons. The book also features spreads on topics such as mixing and matching patterns and sourcing and using vintage materials, and offers tips, information and practical ideas. Katie Ebben trained as a printed textile designer before completing a postgraduate course in Art and Design History. She was Editor of Coast magazine, Deputy Editor of Elle Decoration and before that Editor of Kitchens, Bedrooms & Bathrooms magazine. Katie now lives in Scotland and works as a freelance interiors stylist and writer. She is the author of Wall Effects, Stitch It, Make Do & Mend and Basic Stitches (Conran Octopus).

Fabric Scrapping

Jacqui Small LLP

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