In an age of mass-produced fashion, express your individual style! Create handmade projects for your wardrobe and home with only a small time commitment and basic sewing skills. Now you can make fun, useful accessories and gifts with the contemporary fabrics you love.
- Choose from totes and bags, cases and covers, fashion accents, and home decor projects
- Learn techniques you'll use again and again, such as installing zippers, using fusible applique, and basic machine quilting
- Mix and match the elements to make each design a one-of-a-kind masterpiece
- It's fresh. It's unique. It's handmade!
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The New Handmade features 23 wonderful projects, many of which are made with gorgeous floral print fabrics. These are fresh, appealing innovative designs that folks will love using and having around. There are items that gardeners can use throughout the day from a cell phone case and media player cover to totes, purses, and every imaginable style of bag. Some of the projects can be used for garden record keeping, such as journal/book covers and pencil cases. The book also offers lovely fashion accessories, such as scarves and headbands. Gardeners will love the projects for the kitchen and dining room.
For each item, the book has a list of fabrics, a cutting chart, full-color illustrated, step by step instructions, and full size templates. The techniques include applique and patchwork. Many of these projects are suitable for beginners. The introduction explains how to choose fabrics. The appendix covers all of the general instructions that sewers need to know, including tools and supplies, machine stitching, using templates, different kinds of embellishments, applique, machine quilting, and binding.
From Midwest Book Review
Cassie Barden's The New Handmade: Simple Sewing for Contemporary Style tells how to create handmade projects for a wardrobe or home with only basic sewing skills and minimal time. From totes and bags to home decor, this teaches basics such as installing zippers and using fusible applique, all within context of easy and useful projects. Needlework collections will find it an invaluable addition offering something different in the way of useful, simple and quick projects.
Cassie Barden
Cassie Barden has been involved in making art her whole life, from cartooning, filmmaking, and painting to making odd stuffed animals and creating costumes for Burning Man and Halloween. An interest in both sewing and fashion inspired her to start creating her own one-of-a-kind bags and accessories that appeal to both her utilitarian and style-conscious natures. When she's not sewing, Cassie enjoys two Seattle institutions: live music and drinking coffee. Cassie is inspired by contemporary art and design, anything retro or old-fashioned, and Seattle's urban culture.
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