Just for You: Selfish Sewing Projects from Your Favorite Sew Can She Bloggers: 24 Simply Stylish Projects

by Caroline Fairbanks-Critchfield, Sarah Markos

Overview

You spend all day doing things for everyone else. It's time to renew your creative energy by sewing something just for yourself. This chic collection of 24 modern purses, totes, skirts, tops, scarves, and more apparel and accessories from the bloggers at sewcanshe.com gives you the perfect way to relax, replenish, and experience the joy of doing what you love. The projects in this book are organized into 12 chapters for the 12 months of the year, so you can sew sweet little projects all year long. Blog tutorial–style photo instructions make the sewing easy for sewists of all levels.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781607059080
Publisher:	C & T Publishing
Publication date:	10/01/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	128
Sales rank:	960,349
File size:	25 MB
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About the Author

Caroline Fairbanks-Critchfield comes from a family of artists and computer geeks. She started the website sewcanshe.com to bring her fans something new and fun to sew every day. She lives in Palm Bay, Florida. Visit her at sewcanshe.com/blog.
Sarah Markos is a fabric addict with a love of all things crafty. She blogs about her sewing adventures at bluesusanmakes.blogspot.com and sewcanshe.com. Sarah lives in West Melbourne, Florida.

Editorial Reviews

08/18/2014
The premise of this sewing book is simple: 24 patterns aimed at women who love to sew. Instead of presenting baby clothes or home furnishings, this volume gets right to what women would actually enjoy sewing— that is, bags (the opening Sweetly Gathered Round Handbag is fashionable and simple); clothes (the quilting bee dress is a classic in the making, distinctively using quilting cottons); and accessories (a smartphone that cozy features a cute embroidered fox on the front). All of the designs come from the owners and contributors of the popular sewing blog SewCanShe. Like the website, everything here is bright, appealing, and just trendy enough. The book assumes a good grasp of sewing skills, although a later chapter does explain more complicated techniques. Step-by-step photos throughout should help make up for pattern instructions that seem brief, and patterns are included (although not made available to reviewers). Although few sewists want to be known as “selfish,” this book is going to make them act as if they are! Full-color photos, pattern pullouts. (Oct.)

Publishers Weekly

The projects within this 12-chapter book are part of a one-year selfish sewing challenge - each month, sew one thing for yourself.

Winter 2015 BurdaStyle Magazine

The projects within this 12-chapter book are part of a one-year selfish sewing challenge - each month, sew one thing for yourself.

Winter 2015 BurdaStyle

The layout of this book is clear and easy to follow. There are great shots of the finished items as well as very good step-by-step photos, making it really visually pleasing. The 34 projects are very usable, ranging from clothes to bags and other accessories and are divided between 12 chapters (one for each month of the year), so with a few hours here and there you could spice up your wardrobe in no time! Many designers contributed to the book, so each project has a distinctive style, with something for everyone. There are plenty of handy tips sprinkled throughout the text, plus a generous "Techniques You'll Use" section at the end of the book. It is hard to flick through the pages without wanting to make quite a few projects. Highly recommended.

January 2015 Love Sewing Australia Magazine