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Simple Sewing with a French Twist: An Illustrated Guide to Sewing Clothes and Home Accessories with Style
Sewing with a Certain Savior Faire!
The inimitable Céline Dupuy presents sewers of all skill levels with more than fifty projects, each with a touch of something wonderfully, whimsically French. Including easy items to sew for the home, fashion accessories, delightful gifts, and innovative ideas for customizing your favorite pieces of furniture, these chic patterns will ins...more
The inimitable Céline Dupuy presents sewers of all skill levels with more than fifty projects, each with a touch of something wonderfully, whimsically French. Including easy items to sew for the home, fashion accessories, delightful gifts, and innovative ideas for customizing your favorite pieces of furniture, these chic patterns will ins...more
Paperback, 255 pages
Published
January 2nd 2007
by Potter Craft
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While the colors, title and pictures in this book grabbed me, what's inside was completely unfulfilling. The instructions are incomplete (Uh, yes, you will need an old umbrella frame to make a sunshade, and a hammock for the hammock.) The projects and fabrics are going to be out-dated quickly, if not already. There are a few projects and idea that I would like to attempt that seem to be at my sewing level. (bathrobe, chemise, sunhat, etc)So where's that copying machine?
I wish I had time to make lots of lovely things. This one includes a huge variety of projects. My favorites include a butterfly tench coat and a wool beret. I love the tomato floor cushion (curious if I can alter it to make a tea cozy). I did make some cushions for my bistro set based on an idea in this book.
A Note on the physical book: The photos are full color, the patterns are on different colored paper (easy to find) and not located at the end of the book, and the paper is a ...more
A Note on the physical book: The photos are full color, the patterns are on different colored paper (easy to find) and not located at the end of the book, and the paper is a ...more
The projects are a little...classy, I think, for me. I like a few of the projects, and the button chair pictured on page 63 is my current project, but mine is much, much different, and not nearly as fancy. But it will be cool! Great for looking, but that and the tea towel apron are really the only things that caught my eye. But if you want to make your own fancy-ish things, you might like it more than I do. Oh, and my big complaint, though it may be nitpciky: the photographs of the projects ...more
I bought this because the photography was charming and I was in one of those I-feel-deprived-so-I'm-gonna-buy-myself-a-present kind of moods. If I had thought about it for another three seconds, I would never have purchased the book. The main reason is that this is one of those books that have small-scale drawings of pattern pieces in the back and tell you to take them to a copy center to enlarge them by some percentage. I would must prefer it if such books provided the scale and dimensions of t...more
This had some pretty fun, and inspiring ideas. Most of the projects seem fairly easy/simple, but there's quite a variety of ideas to pick from. Some of the projects are huge, like making ottomans and rugs. Others are very simple, like taking something you already have (like a coat or robe) and adding embellishments. I like the French styling of the projects. They are neat, somewhat simple, but classic and even a little quirky. I also liked the easy to read and follow sewing tutorial. That's real...more
beautiful book. it most definitely inspired me to sew but not necessarily the projects that were presented. I would use this book more as a spring board into your own creative endeavors rather than the end all. Some of the projects weren't so practical and would be rather hard to recreate, but like I mentioned, they get the wheels turning! I have checked this out twice from the library now because I love to drool over the pictures.
There are some good ideas in this super pretty book, but they're not quite challenging or arty enough to get five stars from me. As other commenters have mentioned, I don't need a pattern for a square pillow or, even, let's be honest, a duvet cover - the patterns in this book are easy to the point of completely unnecessary. But of course, these books aren't really about the specific patterns, but about pretty pictures and inspiration more generally. Still, I would've liked to see some more compl...more
I liked this book and it's layout and photography were fascinating but there weren't a LOT of projects that I would actually make or would actually need a pattern for. There is one pattern in particular that I'm dying to make from this book and it's the hat/beret pattern and I am bubbling with ideas of how to modify this pattern so it wasn't a complete waste of time and it is visually stimulating.
Beautiful book, generally not the type of things I am interested in sewing. For those who want to do some simple and more advanced clothes, home decor and other things, her style is simple, unfussy,refined and lovely.
The book had a beautiful beret and trench on the cover, and I fell in love because of it. Unfortunately, the projects inside are less than fulfilling. I copied out the beret pattern, but that's about it.
Don't know why excatly why I didn't love it since it is nice and it has some easy to follow projects. I guess it would fall in the middle of the road...between my mother's taste and mine...
Leah
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This book contains my favorite beret pattern. Tres chic, mais tres simple.
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Cute ideas, but the instructions didn't look very helpful.
This book was filled with pretty pictures, but the projects are simply not that interesting and even disappointing. Recovering an old umbrella? Bleh. Yet another drawstring bag (actually, was it necessary to have two distinct patterns for this?). The instructions seem straightforward enough (for MOST of the projects) but it's not one of the top five books I'd recommend for new sewers (experienced sewers will also probably find it disappointing - but may be able to use the photos and instructions...more
I really like the selection of projects here. Great section about sewing with clear pictures of swatches demonstrating each technique she describes. The book is well organized, with several projects listed in each section (bathroom, living room, kitchen, etc...)with clear, concise instructions including nice & simple illustrations. Great book for someone who knows just a little bit about sewing and wants to learn more.
Of course, I have reviewed every inch of this book, even though I have not made all of the projects yet. I love her style and her simple instructional style. She is not so much concerned with the precise construction and the creative interpretation. Delightful!
Very pretty to look at, this book maks you think that you can make simple things that will make you and your home look chic and stylish. While the truth is that it'll take more effort than that, it does provide a lot of inspiration. This book makes me want to sew.
i'm not a very good at sewing, so this book is really good for me, because all of the ideas and patterns are simple and homemade. the patterns aren't all that difficult or even that cool, but the use of patterns is what makes the projects really stand out. i likey.
LOVE IT!!! step by step, great pictures just what I need! I'm going to renew this from the library as many times as I possibly can and then run out and buy it because it's fabulous! Each and every project in it is easily makeable and it's all so chic!
Got a sewing machine for Xmas (don't tell my family or in-laws!) and this to go with it. Seems to be a good source of inspiration on things to make that are not tacky and/or pointless.I haven't yet made something so no road-test report yet. We'll see.
This book has a lot of easy projects for the home and has good instructions, but I wasn't totally excited to make what was found in this book. It was good to flip through for ideas, but that is about it.
This book is great except now I want French fabric and I'm not sure where to get it! The book has really cute projects and all you need is simple stiches to complete any of them.
I got this from the library and I photocopied away. I am inspired by many of the projects and want to make wonderful things for my house. Now if only I could find my iron...
this is a great book to look through. while i don't know if i would make anything from it, it sure does promote some creative thinking.
I love looking through the pages of this book. The projects are simple and useful for everyday. Not really an essential sewing book.
I can't wait to try some of the stuff in this book. If only I could find a cheap copy once the library book is due back!
Wonderful pictures but the projects are a bit too difficult for beginners like me.
*OWN IT*
just bought it TODAY! (8/8/07)
at Beverlys Crafts.
just bought it TODAY! (8/8/07)
at Beverlys Crafts.
Received as a Christmas gift.
oh so pretty pretty
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