Simple Sewing with a French Twist: An Illustrated Guide to Sewing Clothes and Home Accessories with Style

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Author: Celine Dupuy
ISBN: 0307351823
Number of Pages: 255
Publication Date: 2007-01-02
Publisher: Potter Craft
Release Date: 2007-01-02

Book Description
Sewing with a Certain Savior Faire!

The inimitable Céline Dupuy presents sewers of all skill levels with more than fifty projects, each with a touch of something wonderfully, whimsically French. Including easy items to sew for the home, fashion accessories, delightful gifts, and innovative ideas for customizing your favorite pieces of furniture, these chic patterns will inspire you.

From ultra-simple to more complicated designs, Simple Sewing with a French Twist helps you discover a whole range of skills and techniques for sewing by hand or with a machine. Céline includes clear instructions as well as recommendations about materials—from what you’ll need to get started to advice on pairing fabrics beautifully. From a charming bistro placemat to a stylish tote for jetsetters, to more challenging projects such as a sophisticated chemise or chic sunhat, you’ll love her inventive ideas.

With Céline’s passion for sewing featured on every gorgeous page, Simple Sewing with a French Twist contains only the crème de la crème of style!

Customer Reviews (14 total reviews)

Awesome book
by Customer A1YRXZ4JI1EY01 at October 06th, 2008
This book is very beautiful, all the projects are lovely and it is nicely written and ilustrated. ... (read more)

Oh sew fabulous!
by Customer A1DPR3WQXIONCC at July 15th, 2008
This is a stunningly fabulous book. I LOVE it. Only got it last week so I haven't made anything but I'm really looking forward to getting started. The pictures and descriptions are great and it's a really modern book for all you crafty goddesses out there. I'll soon have my makes on my michellemadethis.blogspot :o)

Disappointing.
by Customer A24QIEZWRM6OI1 at June 23rd, 2008
The patterns in this book are repetitious and as someone else pointed out involve just recovering household items (lampshades, a hammock, flip flops and several others). Spiral bound would indeed be helpful and I found it a bit confusing as a beginning sewer. Also, there's only one project for clothing despite the tag line.

Not your grandma's sewing projects...
by Customer A2QXGW8OIV3YCT at March 16th, 2008
This is a beautiful book, full of super-chic projects. It includes very simple patterns, and some that are very advanced. It will not teach a novice how to use a sewing machine, but does illustrate simple hand-stitches if you are a beginner. The pictures are lovely to look at, and the variety of ideas are sure to inspire.

Sweet book
by Customer A4TGHLGUPGSEA at December 27th, 2007
This book is very pretty and a nice addition to a collection of sewing books. Although, there are many things I probably will not be making in this book, it is chock full of idea I may want to come back to later.

Really want to give this 5 stars!
by Customer A3FC1K575I62UT at August 31st, 2007
This book is SO pretty and is FULL of cute projects. I cannot give it 5 stars, though I want to. ... (read more)

Very Nice!
by Customer A88AV20XJ5X60 at July 23rd, 2007
I adore making things for my home myself, and this book has many projects I have done, albeit in my own way. What I also enjoy about this is the clear explanations of how-to. I also enjoy pictures in rooms that are not so perfect, but the charm of "un-perfection" is appealing! I believe novice and experienced alike will enjoy this book

Cute
by Customer A15BWEKNV64O4E at July 15th, 2007
I enjoyed the patterns in this book. Contrary to an earlier review, their are patterns in the ... (read more)

Charming, but..........
by Customer A2LSB3IBAFQKN8 at June 14th, 2007
This is a charming book and its great if you want simple projects but I wasn't impressed by much of the book. There were some cute projects but overall, I think this book trails Lotta Jansdotter, Amy Butler and even Denyse Schmidt wrt usefulness. The photography for the book had lots of style but seriously, think twice before buying this book.

beautiful, useful and inspiring...
by Customer A1T599LSD8DCBU at May 24th, 2007
I absolutely adore this book. The projects are lovely and useful. All of her descriptions are easy and done in full. I especially enjoy the different ways to hem. Excellent projects for family gifts or things to make you and your home more beautiful. I look forward to more books from this author.