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Lorine Mason
House of White Birches
(distributed in the UK by Search Press)
1 August 2011 / 9781592173402
Non-Fiction/Needlecrafts
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Reviewed
by Rachel A Hyde
Making footwear
of any type sounds like something only a trained shoemaker would
do, but take a look at this book and discover that it isn’t
actually all that difficult. Make slippers for yourself and everybody
on your gift list!
This book has certainly solved at least one present problem for
me as I wonder what to get for hard-to-please types. There are eight
pairs of slippers in here and five designs for clips to decorate
them with. Styles range from a bootee suitable for colder weather
to espadrilles that tie around the ankles with ribbons, slippers
with bows or frills, plain Mary Janes that fold up small and a sachet
to put them in for travelling. The patterns are printed at the back
and come in three sizes, ranging from 5/6 up to 9/10, with women’s
feet in mind, but the canny pattern maker can change these without
too much trouble and a dummy run in calico. Quantities of fabric
are given in fat quarters, and the photographs show some of the
lovely cottons that a quilting emporium sells. Of course you can
make them in other fabrics, too, and with leftover scraps, making
this a fun way of being green and recycling unused fabric.
A total beginner
at sewing might be better starting with something else, but anybody
who is au fait with sewing terms and has a bit of dressmaking experience
behind them shouldn’t have too much trouble. The instructions
are clear with simple, helpful diagrams and nothing that takes too
long to make up. This is definitely a book for the keeper shelf.
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