Scandinavian Designs in Red and White: Craft and Sew 55 Beautiful Projects for the Home - Softcover

Knab-Leers, Nadja; Roland, Heike; Thomas, Stefanie

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9781844487486: Scandinavian Designs in Red and White: Craft and Sew 55 Beautiful Projects for the Home

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1844487482 ISBN 13: 9781844487486

Publisher: Search Press, 2011

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Red and white is a hugely popular colour combination that is well-suited to the fresh, contemporary, Scandinavian-inspired designs in this book. There are easy-to-follow instructions and templates for 55 gorgeous items for your home, including pretty painted flowerpots for the garden, a patchwork tablecloth, aprons and napkins for the kitchen, hanging garlands, pennants and table decorations for the living and dining rooms, and beautiful gift ideas for your family and friends that include greetings cards, gift tags and a pretty heart-shaped box. The gorgeous photographs and simple, modern designs will make you want to start sewing and making straight away, even if you are a complete beginner. And with such a huge range of designs to choose from, you are guaranteed to be irresistibly drawn to at least one of the items in this book. With a useful section on the basic techniques needed for the projects and a handy fold-out sheet of full-size templates for the larger items, this book simply provides everything you need to add a touch of Scandinavian magic to your home.

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"I absolutely love this book. I just want to live in its pages."(Katy Pearson)-The Lady magazine From the authors of Sew Scandinavian this book gives you 55 projects for the home in the striking and timeless colour combination of red and white. The projects are spilt into 4 chapters: In the garden, kitchen comforts, beautiful things for the home and gifts from the heart. There's also an additional chapter at the end with tehcniques, and templates plus there is a large pattern sheet in a pocket at the back of the book. The projects range from the more complex and time consuming patchwork table cloth, to quick & simple projects like teatowels and fabric hanging birds. There are projects for all abilities. Although most the projects are fabric based there are some other crafts too such as paper crafting, wood crafts and painting on to ceramics, wood & metal. There are lovely large photos of each project in the book and written instructions (no diagrams or step by step photos). For some of the projects the instructions seem a little brief (a paragraph or 2), but on the more complex projects you do get a page or so of instructions. Personally I would have preferred a few diagrams too, but then there wouldn't be so many projects in the book so I guess that is the trade off. You do get a lot of very striking projects which would help you bring a Scandinavian feel to your home.-Sewingdirectory.co.uk

About the Author:

Nadja Knab-Leers is a trained fashion-studio manager and a handicraft artist who has written magazine articles and gives demonstrations on television and at trade fairs. Heike Rolandand Stefanie Thomas are the coauthors of several books in their native German. They are all the coauthors of" Sew Scandinavian."

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