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"Once related to little old ladies, the frugal minded and neohippie handicrafters, sewing your own clothes is back in vogue...New books such as Sew Subversive by the founders of Stitch Lounge in San Francisco...give step-by-step instructions for all kinds of projects."
"- Time magazine
""Sew Subversive is filled with lots of inspiring DIY fashion, refashioning ideas, and tutorials for projects like making a pillowcase dress, or turning old sweaters into a scarf.""
- CRAFT magazine
""""This book rocks!...The owners of Stitch Lounge took a decidedly alternative approach to designing and repurposing clothing...whether your look is grunge or sophisticated casual, there's something here for everyone."
- "Creative Techniques magazine
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What fun! Clever, off the wall, creative and definitely not your granny's sewing book. These three young authors have managed to create a sewing guide that speaks the language of the young. As an example, we usually refer to the right side and wrong side of the fabric; the two Melissas and one Hope refer to the party side and the business side of the fabric. This gets the new sewer all the information that is needed to get down to the fun part...the creative sewing....fast.
Linda Stewart, Professional Association of Custom Clothiers
"- Time magazine
""Sew Subversive is filled with lots of inspiring DIY fashion, refashioning ideas, and tutorials for projects like making a pillowcase dress, or turning old sweaters into a scarf.""
- CRAFT magazine
""""This book rocks!...The owners of Stitch Lounge took a decidedly alternative approach to designing and repurposing clothing...whether your look is grunge or sophisticated casual, there's something here for everyone."
- "Creative Techniques magazine
"
What fun! Clever, off the wall, creative and definitely not your granny's sewing book. These three young authors have managed to create a sewing guide that speaks the language of the young. As an example, we usually refer to the right side and wrong side of the fabric; the two Melissas and one Hope refer to the party side and the business side of the fabric. This gets the new sewer all the information that is needed to get down to the fun part...the creative sewing....fast.
Linda Stewart, Professional Association of Custom Clothiers
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"Sew Subversive" is about making fashion your own, whether it's embellishing or customising off-the-rack clothing or transforming clothes that have lost that loving feeling. Learn in plain, fun language, how to sew, whether you're hand sewing, machine sewing, or, in a few cases, simply wielding a pair of scissors! The first three chapters lay the ground work: Hand Sewing Basics, You and Your Machine, and Gearing Up - then the fun begins with Embellishing and Customising projects, including turning a computer-scanned image into an iron-on that you can apply to a t-shirt or skirt, taking in a skirt, or untapering a pair of trousers. Then move onto 'Refashioning: The Next Life of Your Old Clothes' and turn a t-shirt into a skirt, a sweater into a halter top or legwarmers, or a pair of trousers into a hip belt. There are 22 projects in all, some of which only require an iron and/or pair of scissors, while others can be sewn by hand, for those readers who haven't yet made the sewing machine plunge.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The finished garments in this book are so badly made that it makes you realise that any attempts that you make at making your own clothes can't be as bad.
Seriously, save your money and give this book a miss!
Seriously, save your money and give this book a miss!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I disagree that this book is aimed at teenagers - I'm nearly 40 and I think it's extremely cool (granted, I don't live a conservative 9 to 5 kind of life). For me, part of the book's appeal is that you're encouraged to get creative and crafty with clothes that you already have or can get down the charity shop. A few raw edges with hanging threads doesn't really matter to me for clothes that I'm wearing for fun rather than work - in fact they are part of the fun. If this is a concept that you "get" and if like me you have been sewing for a while but still find complex commercial patterns too fiddly, or you just don't have the time to finish them, then you could do worse than buy this book and find things you can do in an evening - without tearing your hair out!
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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This book is aimed at new sewers, and really I would suggest teens, however a lot of the information contained with in translates to any sewer at any age.
It starts off with the basics: hand sewing and machine sewing, needles, buttons, mending etc. All the useful stuff that everyone should know whether a sewer or not!!
Then it goes on to spend a lot of time talking about changing current clothes using these techniques to make them more fashionable today, as well as a little section on sewing areas.
Then basically the rest of the book is around projects for you to have a go at.
If you're creative then the projects will be of no use to you, but the general sewing information at the begining of the book is useful for everyone.
It starts off with the basics: hand sewing and machine sewing, needles, buttons, mending etc. All the useful stuff that everyone should know whether a sewer or not!!
Then it goes on to spend a lot of time talking about changing current clothes using these techniques to make them more fashionable today, as well as a little section on sewing areas.
Then basically the rest of the book is around projects for you to have a go at.
If you're creative then the projects will be of no use to you, but the general sewing information at the begining of the book is useful for everyone.
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it's not the best book I've ever seen...
the pictures are pretty old and the content's good when you are a total beginner, but it could be shortened...
the pictures are pretty old and the content's good when you are a total beginner, but it could be shortened...
Published 21 months ago by m
A different angle!
Not too bad a book. The opening chapters, covering sewing basics, are very informative. with it's funky edge to creating clothes, I would agree that this book is aimed mainly at... Read more
Published on 5 May 2008 by Tilly Littlefoot
Ok, but not massively inspiring
There are one or two good projects in this book and the front part is informative but most of the projects are either covered in other similar style books or are something you... Read more
Published on 7 Jan 2008 by Gemma Lee
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