Sew over it vintage : stylish projects for the modern wardrobe & home.

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Title:

Sew over it vintage : stylish projects for the modern wardrobe & home.

Author:

Comfort, Lisa, author.

ISBN:

9780091947118

Physical Description:

160 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

General Note:

Include sindex.

Subject Term:

Sewing.

Machine sewing.

Vintage clothing.

Summary:

These brand new stylish projects each have a vintage twist but retain the modern style, allowing these pieces to work with the rest of your wardrobe and home. Featuring 25 projects including Adding Fur Cuffs & Collar to a Coat; 1920s Kimono Dressing Gown; 1940s Fascinator; 1950s Button-up Skirt; Veil with Vintage Buttons or Brooches; Vintage Fabric Lampshade and more; there are ideas for those who want to quickly create an accessory as well as suggestions for those that want to invest their time in a large and impressive project. Every project has a clearly labeled skill level as well as step-by-step photography, ensuring the directions couldn't be any easier to follow. With instructions on how to draft your own bodice block, all the clothing can be made to fit your body shape perfectly.

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**Includes simple and accessible instructions for how to cut your own patterns**

Following on from her successful first book, Sew Over It Vintage is a brand new collection of fabulous projects from sewing expert Lisa Comfort. Inspired by Lisa's love of vintage style and fashion, the stylish projects each have a vintage twist but still retain the modern style, allowing these pieces to work with and complement the rest of your wardrobe and your home.

Featuring 25 projects, ranging from jewellery, hats, tops, dresses and bags, to cushions, lampshades, placemats, lanterns and a luxury chair pouffe, there are ideas for those who want to quickly create an accessory on a lazy afternoon as well as suggestions for those that want to invest their time in a large and impressive project.

Every project has a clearly labeled skill level as well as step-by-step photography, ensuring the directions couldn't be any easier to follow. And with instructions on how to draft your very own bodice block, all the clothing can be made to fit your body shape perfectly.

There is no better way to inject some classic vintage style into your everyday life.

Author Notes

Lisa has appeared on the Alan Titchmarsh Show on ITV, and Kirstie Allsopp's Channel 4 show Kirstie's Vintage Home .

Lisa Comfort runs Sew Over It, a sewing paradise and café where she teaches and shares her passion for stitchery over a cup of tea and homemade cake. You can take part in one of her popular classes, get advice or just drop in and sew. Sewing since the age of nine, Lisa gained formal training at the London College of Fashion before working with Bruce Oldfield and Philippa Lepley. She has sew everything under the sun, from couture bridal gowns to Mad Men-inspired dresses.

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Library Journal Review

The designs in this second book from Comfort (after Sew Over It) combine vintage flair with contemporary style for a timeless, fashionable look. Included are pieces that sewists expect to find in a vintage-style text-box-pleat skirts, a sailor blouse-as well as some unusual ones, such as a wool capelet. However, Comfort doesn't list the necessary fabric yardage, and sewists are forced to sift through the brief introduction to each pattern to figure out what type of fabric is suggested. The designs are attractive, and drafting patterns based on individual measurements lead to a custom fit. Yet, it will try sewists' patience to read through the pattern carefully in order to decipher what is needed to make each piece. Verdict Vintage aficionados may prefer Gretchen Hirsch's -retro-style collections. © Copyright 2017. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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