Design and Make Decorative DetailsThat hand-woven throw casually tossed over a chair. The vase holding a single flower. The variety of lighted candles sitting on the mantel. It's the small details like these that turn a house into a stylish home. Not only do these objects provide beauty, but many, such as fabric-covered hat and shoe boxes, are useful for storage or as gifts. * Learn all the basic techniques, from mitred corners to binding to gluing.* Drape dressing tables in yards of material.* Brighten up tables with personalized tablecloths, place mats, and napkins.* Get instructions for sewing hemmed finishes, and covering stools, side tables, and luggage racks.* Make your own lampshade. Some of sheerest silk let light shine through; others are fashioned out of gathered material, or pleated. * Construct frames, boxes, screens, lunch baskets and more! And a lot of other design ideas. Turn your house into a stylish home with this informative series that everyone can use. New Holland 80 pages (all in color), 8 1/2 x 11. |
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accessories allow approximately base basket binding bottom ring box pleated braid card shade centre chintz choose cloth cm ½ cm 1½ colour concertina cord corner cotton curtains decorative draped dressing table excess fabric eyelets finish flaps flat fold line frame frill fringe front hemline hems Herringbone hold the fabric inside interlining keep the fabric lampshade layers Leave to dry length of fabric light linen lock stitch long sides main fabric matching Measure mitre napkins Neaten needle overlap panel pattern petersham piece of fabric piping placemat prints provençal pull the fabric PVA glue quilted raw edges ribbon right side screen seam selvedge shape shelf shelves silk Slip stitch Snip sories square Staple stitch close stitching line straight straight edge strip of fabric tablecloth tack tape template texture threads throw toile de jouy top and bottom Trim valance width worktable wrong side