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List Price: $14.95
Best Price: $9.33 (new), $5.17 (used), $24.75 (collectible)
Availability: New (42), Used (28), Collectible (2)
Author: Megan Nicolay
ISBN: 0761137858
Number of Pages: 272
Publication Date: 2006-02-02
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company

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Inspiring, but do you really need it?
by Customer ATZ1LTONGHOP6 at January 23rd, 2008
"Generation T" is a very cool book in theory. I love t-shirts and have a huge collection of them, and when my copy of this book arrived, I spent a whole afternoon flipping through it, imagining what I could do with them. Then, after I came down from my little cloud, it occurred to me, I'm not going to cut up any of my t-shirt that I love, and if I dislike a t-shirt enough to chop it up, I probably don't like it enough to transform it. As a result, this book has sat on my bookshelf, unused, ever since.

The patterns in this book are simple and straight forward. Most require only a minimum amount of sewing, if any, and could be made by a novice. The patterns fall into three categories: tops (tube tops, tank tops and slashed t-shirts), skirts (lots of a-line skirts, most of which look like you've got a t-shirt tied around your waist), and accessories (cushions, a scarf, a blanket, an iPod cozy, leg warmers, bags etc). Whether you like these or not will depend on your own personal taste. However, the thing is, even if you do like these items enough to want to make them, you probably don't need this book to tell you how to do so. It doesn't take a genius to figure out how to turn a t-shirt into a cushion, for example.

This book is worth reading for inspiration if you find it cheap or in the library, but other than that, I wouldn't bother.

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