Modern Prairie Sewing
20 Handmade Projects for You & Your Friends
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
Bring creativity to your home and wardrobe with 20 simple yet stylish projects—including bags, skirts, dresses, and quilts—in this beginner’s guide.
Gone are the days of confusing instructions and difficult patterns. With Abigail Long’s Modern Prairie Sewing, you'll discover that sewing can be fun and practical without being complicated. These 20 creative projects are designed to help you develop technical skills, including Abigail’s secret sewing tricks to guarantee success. Abigail also adds cute and clever design details you can add to raise your skill level even further. A box pleat or gusset may seem fancy and complicated, but with this illustrated guide, they are totally doable.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
For sewists who find themselves daydreaming about picnics and splashing through a creek this summer, Long's book will scratch that yearning itch. Her first collection of 20 patterns are all presented in a cheerfully vintage, farm-girl style, for which her book title perfectly captures the mood. There are plenty of simple, approachable patterns, all aimed at women, focusing on bags, skirts, and a few home goods projects. Just a glance at the "It's a Cinch" obi-style belt will have readers scrounging through their fabric for an Amy Butler print or two. A duo of two simple skirts, the Cakewalk and the Sunny Day Skirt, make use of bright, cheery prints and an elastic waistband. In general, everything should be achievable by sewists with basic skills and might provide a brief break for skilled sewists who want to whip out, say, a few kitchen towels for friends. The guidelines section, which serves as introduction, is very basic, and the diagrams and pattern pieces provided aren't very detailed. But nothing requires much in the way of precise skills, making this a great summer sewing volume. Full-color photos, pattern pieces.
