Country Living Crafting Vintage Style: Charming Projects for Home and Garden

by Christina Strutt

"Pretty projects for the home...lovely do-it-yourself ideas."-- Style at Home

Celebrate the handmade and the homemade with 25 truly unique, professionally designed, and charming vintage-style projects. Presented with watercolors and specially commissioned photographs, these lovely items make ingenious use of traditional fabrics, time-honored fabric crafts, simple old-fashioned sewing, ragging, and braiding techniques, and natural material materials from the garden. Dress up any room with cozy cushions in old-style ticking. Liven up plain shelving with scalloped shelf edging splashed with bright gingham. Scented lavender bags and pillows bring welcome prettiness and fragrance to a spare room. And don't forget outdoor who could resist lounging in lovely rose-covered deck chairs? Here is a handbook for the ultimate vintage home.

Genres: Crafts, Nonfiction, Design

96 pages, Paperback

First published March 15, 2003

Reviews

[Jen · Rating 1 out of 5]

What a misleading title! Every project in here involves fabric/sewing. I'm sorry, but sewing a handmade duvet cover or rug is NOT mere "crafting." I'm sure it is a delightful book for sewers, but Sewing Vintage Style would have been a much more apt title.

[Trish · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lots of vintage sewing projects.

[Chelsea · Rating 5 out of 5]

So my style!

[Dawn Foster · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ohhhh, how I wish I knew how to sew!. Every couple of years I re-read this book (published in 2003) and still love the sweet & delicate ideas on ways to use vintage fabric.

[Shannon · Rating 3 out of 5]

Enjoyed flipping through this book, but nothing was exciting enough to make me want to dig out my fabric stash.

[Rachael · Rating 3 out of 5]

only a few things that i would actually craft in this book, but i made sure to find them, or similar projects, on pinterest for future reference