Sewing Home Decor: the Basics & Beyond: How-to Techniques, Dozens of Home Decor Projects, Learn-to Sew Basics
"The newest addition to Landauer Publishing's "basics & beyond" series, Sewing Home Decor is stuffed full of techniques and tips to get a beginning sewist on the right track to creating top-quality items for their homes. Author Shannon Dennis shares the how-to for 35 different projects, including curtains, pillows, window treatments, table settings and duvet covers.Each project includes a techniques list, showing the range of skills you will use for it with page numbers to the corresponding tutorial on each technique. Dennis' instructions are straightforward and easy-to-understand. She includes explanations on sewing mitered corners, scallops, lapped zippers, welting, inverted box pleats and much more.Sewing Home Decor is a great addition to the sewing libraries of both the beginner and the experienced sewist looking to develop more skills. The techniques she includes are those that will be used in a variety of sewing projects, including sewing clothes and accessories.There are two extras with this book that make it a long-term resource: the yardage guide and the DVD. The last half-dozen pages are filled with formulas to help you figure out just how much fabric to buy if you want to recover you duvet, make a pet bed, sew bench cushions or a tablecoth. The included DVD is a compilation of short videos showing different techniques, particularly helpful for new sewists and for those of us who learn best visually." --Teresa Coates "FabShopHop Blog"Sewing Home Décor is a complete instruction manual in the basics & beyond series that teaches home sewers techniques such as quilting, trims, hemming, closures, and construction and stitching to help create an assortment of bright, creative home decorating touches, including curtains, cushion covers, seat covers, table coverings, bed and duvet covers, and more. Each project list techniques, materials, cutting instructions, and general instructions in a step-by-step format. Color photographs illustrate the finished product and details along the way. There are many ways to complete a home decorating theme, and Sewing Home Décor is full of vivid, imaginative suggestions for fabrics and projects and detailed approaches and techniques. Even the novice sewer will be able to follow these easy instructions and explanations. Projects such as a breakfast cart slipcover, vintage apron, and reversible patchwork place mats and napkins are presented. For convenience, there are yardage and cutting charts for each project listed in the back by project, and there is also a list of additional resources. Sewing Home Décor is an excellent resource for the home sewer and decorator who wishes to achieve a fabulous look for a budget finish. --Nancy Lorraine, Midwest Book Review Bookwatch: July, 2011Looking to redecorate your living room but don t know where to start? Look no further than Sewing Home Décor, your complete manual to home decorating. Shannon teaches the basic techniques (quilting, trims, hemming, and closures, among others) so you can start redecorating your home within minutes. Projects include curtains, cushion and seat covers, bed and duvet covers, and more. Each project lists techniques, materials and gives clear instructions with full color photos to help you learn the art of home decorating. What s more, Shannon includes an instructional DVD to make you master all the techniques. Beginners and experts alike will find all the projects they need to give your house an updated, fresh look without breaking the bank. --The Fat Quarterly: Winter, 2012