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16 Cheerful
Projects to Sew (Make Series)
Various -Abbey
Lane Quilts, Alexia Marcelle Abegg, Bari J. Ackerman, Lindsay
Conner, Sue Kim, Virginia Lindsay, Trish Preston, Sweetwater,
Sara Trail, Kasja Wikman, and Annabel Wrigley
C&T Publishing
(distributed in the UK by Search Press)
21 June 2017/ ISBN 9781617453687
How-To Books/Sewing
Reviewed
by Rachel A Hyde
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Got
an hour to spare and a gift to make? There are sixteen projects
in here to use up your leftovers from other projects and have
fun even if you don’t think you have time to make anything.
Ten of the projects can be made in under and hour, and the
remaining six in under half and hour. You don’t need
a lot of sewing experience to tackle any of them but a good
working knowledge of the basics is essential as this is not
a primer. Every project has been featured previously in another
C&T book and each is by a different designer so if you
like what you see you might want to invest in the whole book
it came from. Projects vary slightly in format, some having
several staged photographs, others with drawn diagrams and
layouts. Some of the print is rather small so good eyesight
is required, but then it usually is for sewing. At the back
are some patterns, a few of which need to be enlarged, but
most of the items are made with measuring only. Choose from
several different bags, bows, place settings, a toy bucket,
coasters and more. All are very giftable, most managing to
be both pretty and practical and with wide appeal. Techniques
include appliqué, scrap patchwork, putting in a zipper
and simple hand embroidery and all ease a fairly new stitcher
gently into using these methods. A good book to have on hand
for Christmas, as you can make a lot of gifts using it –
if you can bear to part with them!
If you cannot
find a good range of fabric locally try www.searchpress.com
for a list of suppliers.
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