Sew Pretty Homestyle

By Tone Finnanger

Create beautiful accesories to enhance your home using simple techniques. A subtle colour palette and lovable designs combine to create a collection of over 35 projects. Easy-to-follow instructions, colour photos and illustrations accompany each project. Create beautiful accessories to enhance your home using stunningly simple but incredibly effective techniques by creative crafter Tone Finnanger. A subtle colour palette and lovable Tilda designs combine to create a fresh and fun collection of over 35 projects. Easy-to-follow instructions, gorgeous colour photos and delightful illustrations accompany each project, along with actual-size templates that will ensure wonderful results. With pretty homestyle ideas for the entire home from the kitchen to children's bedrooms, everyone will find a project they adore. Tone Finnanger begins by breaking down the basics: fabrics and materials, techniques such as embroidery and stitching and wrong side appliques, transferring patterns and creating stuffed figures with faces and fancy hairdos. Fabulous projects are divided into sections of the home: The Entrance Hall that includes pretty felted door mats and lavender-scented shoe hearts; The Kitchen that includes cute cats and fragrant strawberries; The Dining Room that includes decorative table mats and a pretty cafetiere cosy; The Living Room that includes an extravagant tapestry and sweet house angels; The Conservatory that includes happy horses and garden angels; The Hobby Room that includes vintage-style pin cushions and fabric bags and boxes; The Bathroom that includes practical wall pouches and a make-up bag; The Bedroom that includes a woollen felt hot water bottle and handy sleeping masks; The Children's Room that includes an array of figures from the book such as stumpy-legged dogs and good-natured teddy bears. You will fall in love with all of these charming projects. Make your house a home with this irresistible collection of simple hand-sewn accessories.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B00A2P41VM
• ISBN13: 9780715327494
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: David & Charles
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.3" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

SOOOOOOOOOOOOO GOOD!

I am so very pleased with this book. It is full of pretty projects that I can't wait to get started on. Usually craft books have a couple of projects that I actually like enough to make myself, however, this one has so many that I'd do that I don't even know where to start. The pictures are lovely, the materials are pretty, the patterns are all so nice (without being too cutesy). I'd definitely recommend this book. I hope the author comes out with more!

Wonderful!

The projects are all clean and easy. I think it's her better book, although I loved all of them.

You will love this book!

This is an inspiring and charming book! The directions are clear and concise. The photos are bright and beautiful. There are simple projects--like the cloth pear-- that can be made quickly and are highly attractive and satisfying. There are also projects that take longer like a quilt or a doll (could be an angel, or skip the wings and make a doll) that would make lovely gifts. I have pegged several items I know friends and family would be touched to receive this Christmas. The projects are remarkably appealing. I highly recommend this book!

Absolutely gorgeous!

Wow! Just got this in the mail today and I cannot wait to get started! Both myself and my daughter were "oohing and ahhing" over the beautiful pictures and the great ideas. I have a lot of sewing books, and this one ranks right up there! If you like cottage or vintage style, or just simply "pretty" things (as the title suggests), then this is the book for you! Highly recommended.