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Sew What! Skirts
16 Simple Styles You Can Make with Fabulous Fabrics

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839 Ratings by Goodreads |
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Format
Hardback, 128 pages
Published
USA, 1 October 2006
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Sewing is back! Young, crafty women are discovering the fun and creativity of working with fabric, needle, and thread to create simple, colorful skirts, suitable for showing off as wearable art. Sew What! Skirts assumes no prior sewing experience (and no home ec. class or mother with sewing skills!), and doesn’t get bogged down with overly complicated instructions or patterns.

Author Francesca DenHartog, a fabric fanatic and sewing instructor, has stripped skirts down to the basics: 15 styles, ranging from an A-line to a circle, wraparound, gored panel, tiered “hippie, ” layered, and more. All it takes to get started is basic body measurements (no need to go out and buy an expensive pattern), a machine, great fabric, fun embellishments, and a few sewing fundamentals.

With a creative can-do attitude, playful photographs, and super-simple step-by-step instructions, Sew What! Skirts will connect a whole new generation with the craft of making clothing that expresses your own unique look and personality. It’s all about the fabric, as DenHartog demonstrates with the colorful array of patterns and motifs featured throughout.

Whimsical, colorful, and easy, the designs in this book are sure to unleash the creative spirit of every budding seamstress.

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Sewing is back! Young, crafty women are discovering the fun and creativity of working with fabric, needle, and thread to create simple, colorful skirts, suitable for showing off as wearable art. Sew What! Skirts assumes no prior sewing experience (and no home ec. class or mother with sewing skills!), and doesn’t get bogged down with overly complicated instructions or patterns.

Author Francesca DenHartog, a fabric fanatic and sewing instructor, has stripped skirts down to the basics: 15 styles, ranging from an A-line to a circle, wraparound, gored panel, tiered “hippie, ” layered, and more. All it takes to get started is basic body measurements (no need to go out and buy an expensive pattern), a machine, great fabric, fun embellishments, and a few sewing fundamentals.

With a creative can-do attitude, playful photographs, and super-simple step-by-step instructions, Sew What! Skirts will connect a whole new generation with the craft of making clothing that expresses your own unique look and personality. It’s all about the fabric, as DenHartog demonstrates with the colorful array of patterns and motifs featured throughout.

Whimsical, colorful, and easy, the designs in this book are sure to unleash the creative spirit of every budding seamstress.

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Product Details
EAN
9781580176255
ISBN
1580176259
Other Information
Illustrated
Dimensions
23.5 x 18.7 x 1.6 centimeters (0.38 kg)

About the Author

Francesca DenHartog is the owner of Valley Fabrics in Northampton, Massachusetts, a colorful hotbed of sewing and quilting activity, where she teaches beginning sewing classes. She lives in Hatfield, Massachusetts.

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"If you're a teen or tween with an itch to stitch....check out Sew What! Skirts." - Washington Post

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By on November 25, 2008
Excellent book. Shows readers how to draft a skirt pattern (easier than you think!) and sew it up. Several different styles, but the basics, including tiered, a-line, straight and wrap around are all covered. Someone with little or no sewing knowledge can follow this book. Also great for those that don't fit easily into commercially made patterns/ready made clothes, as you are drafting patterns to fit your own individual body size.
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By on September 19, 2009
Gave me the confidence and enthusiasm to open up my mum's old sewing machine and get straight down to sewing. Really easy to read and understand, follows a very logical order, great easy-to-refer-back-to instruction pages and the patterns are so inspiring. Have sewn two skirts in two evenings this week. I don't know if I'll ever buy another skirt when I can now make my own one-offs. Kinda wish I really needed more skirts!
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By paula on June 29, 2008
love this book. great idea, sewing without buying patterns. really easy to follow and inspiring
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By lucie on December 18, 2008
this book is very useful for beginners, it has all the basics and it's a great looking book
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