Sew Stylish: Easy-Sew Ideas for Customizing Clothes and Home Accessories

by Katie Ebben

Designer looks. Creative know-how. Use-what-you-have ingenuity.

Thrift meets craft in Sew Stylish , as author Katie Ebben presents easy sewing techniques to help you embellish, reinvent, and recycle everyday clothing and accessories. Whether it’s trimming a plain shirt with a ribbon, lengthening curtains with a false hem, or patching the elbow of a cardigan, each project blends sewing instruction and creative inspiration simply and wonderfully. Chapters focus on trimming, patching, hemming, darning and disguising, customizing, and reinventing, with step-by-step instructions and drawings to ensure polished results on the first try.

Easy-sew ideas for customizing clothes and home accessories.

Make it quick; make it your own. Sew Stylish offers simple makeovers for everything from jeans to sweaters to off-the-rack basics. Author Katie Ebben presents a modern twist on traditional sewing techniques and demonstrates clever ways to embellish, reinvent, and transform items for home and wardrobe.

Eighteen inspiring projects incorporate everything from beading and appliqué to hemming and trimming. The approach is fun and lighthearted, and the clearly illustrated step-by-step instructions provide foolproof formulas to give soft furnishings and clothing a new lease on life.

Genres: Sewing

96 pages, Paperback

First published February 14, 2006

Reviews

[Ligaya · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a sweet little book on making your clothing and home accessories a bit more personalized. The photography is very nice and the illustrations from the step-by-steps are simple and nicely done. The first project sets the tone—Deep Fringed Lampshade. Cool and easy to do, with a nice twist of extra long fringe. Nothing here is new but the finished pieces are well done and stylish, like, not one clunker!

[Erika Mulvenna · Rating 2 out of 5]

There seem to be a lot of books now about customizing your wardrobe or recycling fabric. This is one of them, and the projects are along the same lines - making pillows or adding trims to clothing.

[Dana Visse Ribner · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very hip gift ideas using felts, scraps, and existing pieces

[Cami · Rating 3 out of 5]

A nice little book with simple ideas and sewing projects.
It focuses mainly on repurposing and repairing in clever ways as opposed to making things from 'scratch.'

[Sarah]

Always fun to get new ideas. I took a few from this book.