Romantic Home Sewing: Cottage-Style Projects to Stitch for the Home

Customer Rating: 3.5
List Price: $25.95
Best Price: $14.23 (new), $14.15 (used)
Availability: New (32), Used (10)
Author: Christina Strutt
ISBN: 0307345637
Number of Pages: 144
Publication Date: 2006-11-14
Publisher: Potter Craft
Release Date: 2006-11-14

Book Description
If you long to give your rooms a vintage air and country-cottage appeal, you will love the retro floral prints and timeless designs of Romantic Home Sewing, the perfect guide to creating a handmade, easy elegance in your home. The book offers simple-sew projects to transform every room into the romantic retreat you’ve always wanted.

In this step-by-step guide, Christina Strutt, owner of the popular Cabbages & Roses fabric company, shows readers how to make a wealth of projects for the kitchen and bathroom, sunroom, and bedroom—and for gift giving, as well. A skilled stylist and designer, Strutt demonstrates how to create a look that is personal and unique, but not at all labor intensive. Reusing old fabrics and accessories in new ways allows the vintage and the modern to mingle beautifully—and also saves money and time.

The charming projects highlighted in this delightful illustrated book include crisp linen chair covers, a chic fabric headboard, pretty flower aprons, dreamy voile bed curtains, and soothing scented herbal pillows.

Even if you’ve never sewn a stitch before, Romantic Home Sewing will guide you through each technique for polished results.

If you desire a home filled with hand-finished, personal objects, let Christina Strutt be your guide. The result will be an oasis of comfort, whimsy, and true romanticism.

From the creative talent behind Britain’s beloved Cabbages & Roses vintage-style fabric company, Romantic Home Sewing includes thirty easy-to-sew projects that will transform your home into a warm, lovely tableau of hand-crafted detail. From pillows to aprons, duvet covers to lamp shades, Romantic Home Sewing is the ultimate guide to creating the inviting, charming home you crave—all with your own two hands.

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Customer Reviews (6 total reviews)

rating: 1 How to make simple or ugly things with beautiful fabric
by Customer A21ACCU7MGVF0I at November 07th, 2008
I don't usually pan craft books, because there's so much out there to learn, I can usually glean something. But not in this one. I would never waste beautiful vintage fabrics on most of these projects, and if I did, I'd consider it step 1. As in, I stitched the simple pillow, now let's embellish it.

rating: 4 Easy sewing and rewarding projects
by Customer A2M95SWMFYX5JM at August 08th, 2007
I really love this book - simple but rewarding projects that most sewers would have no trouble with. lovely photography.

rating: 5 Romantic Home Sewing
by Customer A6OFF5G50VR9A at May 30th, 2007
Excellent book! Christina Strutt had my tastes in mind when she wrote this book. It is for people who don't know much about sewing, love vintage fabrics and want to learn some ideas on how to use them. The pictures are beautiful and the instructions are clear.

rating: 3 a just OK book
by Customer A1X71DRUE2L5II at May 12th, 2007
The pictures are nice , the fabric & the way it presents the instructions too.
That is all to it. Nothing more.

rating: 4 Lovely ideas, but a minor complication-
by Customer A3DABNO1HS997Q at May 05th, 2007
The fabrics and patterns in this book are lovely. Photographic representation of all the projects ... (read more)

rating: 5 Romantic Home Sewing made simple
by Customer A1TDN8KNG3A9XE at December 14th, 2006
I don't fall in love with books easily, but this one was love at first sight for me. The photos were clear. The ideas and instructions simple and easy to follow. I borrowed a copy from the public library, now I want my own.