Chic on a Shoestring
Simple to Sew Vintage-Style Accessories
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- $5.99
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- $5.99
Publisher Description
Chic on a Shoestring is your entrée into the world of high fashion that will inspire you to create your own covetable clothes and accessories. Learn to transform ornate trims and vintage buttons into spectacular brooches, craft a favorite silk scarf into a chic top, or rework flea market shoes into fashionable showstoppers.
With more than 40 unique and stylish ideas—including quick and easy no-sew projects—Chic on a Shoestring will inspire first-time and experienced crafters alike.
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British milliner Baxter's first book is a delightful grab bag of unique projects that will add vintage dash to any crafter's wardrobe. She writes that her ideas are "the doorway to a different world, one in which your creativity will flourish and your purse strings won't snap." Many of the projects encourage hand-sewing accessories, so this book will find favor with readers who want to sew a bit, but aren't interested in complicated clothing patterns that require sewing by machine. Chapters begin with simple instructions on customizing one's existing wardrobe with vintage trims, bows and flea market jewelry, such as sewing on new buttons or making a no-sew collar. Later chapters cover hats, traveling accessories, and jewelry, but Baxter's stand-out section is devoted to creating flowers. Throughout she offers designs that are different from what's floating around the Internet, as inexpensive as promised, and lovely to boot. The book also includes basic instructions on how to sew by hand and machine, and is beautifully illustrated in a magpie, tea party style that will particularly thrill Anglophiles. Full-color photographs.
