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Fabulous Bags To Stitch and Make

by Jenny Rolfe

     

You can make a whole lot of bags with this book to match every outfit in your wardrobe. Choose from casual to dressy and utilize your hoarded stash of fabrics and embellishments as you quilt and adorn your creations using your sewing machine.

This book is a lot of fun. As long as you have a swing needle sewing machine, other basic sewing items and a stash of pretty fabrics of all kinds and some embellishments, then you have everything you need. You are given an insight at the beginning into how the author works: keeping a design sketchbook and lots of fancy fabrics, which might inspire you to do something similar to aid your designing. Instructions are given on how to do freestyle machine embroidery and designs of basic patterns made with this method are shown to start you off. Then you can have a go at machining ribbons or fabric strips together, making cords andembellishments and using heat bondable fibers (such as Angelina Fibers). The bags themselves come in some fancy shapes such as a petal bag and a half moon as well as conventional rectangles and rounds; and each project has a different way of decorating it using the methods described at the beginning, as well as few others.. With some basic sewing skills and a bit of practice you can have a lot of fun with this book, which is of the type that you keep dipping into for ideas over and over again.

The Book

Search Press
September 2009
Paperback
1844483938 / 9781844483938
How-To Books / Sewing
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The Reviewer

Rachel A Hyde
Reviewed 2010
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