Quick and Easy Window Treatments: 15 Easy-Sew Projects that Build Skills, Too
An easy, get-started guide to creating your own curtains, drapes, and shades. Easy SINGER Style Quick and Easy Window Treatments teaches readers how to create simple, stylish window treatments for every room in the house. The author provides her own shortcuts and secrets for saving time while achieving professional-quality results. The 15 projects include lined and unlined curtains and drapes straight, balloon, and shaped valences and Roman shades-in a variety of casual and elegant fabrics and styles suited to every type of room setting.
Sew Decorative: Quick and Easy Home Accents from Sew News
Decorate your living space with warmth and charm! From Sew News the trusted sewing source discover 24 inspiring projects that can be easily adapted to suit any decor. Create everything from cozy pillows, place mats, and pot holders to clever curtains and lampshades.
* Techniques include pleating, gathering, boxing corners, adding trims, using decorative built-in machine stitches, and embroidery by machine * "Home-Sewing Specifications" section provides a sewing glossary plus basic info about French seams, embroidery stitches, and more * Skill levels range from beginner to advanced, providing something for everyone
This 240-page book is the complete, authoritative guide to the history, techniques, and patterns of knitting and now it's been updated to reflect what's popular in knitting today. Expanded information is given in some areas, and the skill-building projects have been refreshed with up-to-the-minute patterns. Materials, basic techniques, symbols, and abbreviations are clearly written and illustrated to make learning to knit simple. Twenty-two unique projects are stunningly photographed and meticulously charted, with thorough written instructions to guide even a novice.
Sewing 101, Revised and Updated: Master Basic Skills and Techniques Easily through Step-by-Step Instruction
Written with the absolute beginner in mind, this book teaches all the basics for machine sewing with step-by-step instructions and photographs. Sewing skills are learned by working on projects, beginning with something very easy and getting progressively more difficult as the reader works through the book. New skills are explored in depth as they are introduced. The projects are divided into two sections: garment sewing and home decor/accessory sewing, making this the most comprehensive beginner's book available.
Photography: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Photographs are an integral part of our daily lives, from sensationalist images in tabloid papers, to personal family snapshots, to the art photography displayed in galleries and sold through international art markets. In this thought-provoking exploration of the subject, Steve Edwards provides a clear, lively, and imaginative approach to the definition, importance, and meaning of photography. He combines a sense of its historical development with an analysis of its purpose and meaning within a wider cultural context.
