Sew Up a Home Makeover: 50 Simple Sewing Projects to Transform Your SpaceGive your home a fresh new look. Lexie Barnes shows you how to quickly and inexpensively personalize your living space with 50 fun, pattern-free sewing projects that are highly adaptable and visually inspiring. Dramatic before-and-after photographs demonstrate how easy it is to brighten your living room with a custom-designed slipcover or give new life to a bedroom with a colorful headboard cover, lampshade, and matching window treatments. Get sewing and transform your home into the stylish abode you’ve always craved. |
Contents
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Fabrics and Tools | 17 |
Tips and Techniques | 29 |
MAKEOVER CHALLENGE 1 From Drab to Fab | 38 |
Dressing the Table to Fit the Occasion | 76 |
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Sew Up a Home Makeover: 50 Simple Sewing Projects to Transform Your Space Lexie Barnes Limited preview - 2011 |
Sew Up a Home Makeover: 50 Simple Sewing Projects to Transform Your Space Lexie Barnes No preview available - 2011 |
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Attach backstitch batting bias bottom edge canvas chair circle Clip closed colors cord corners cotton cover create curtains curve cushion cut the fabric decorating direction double-fold draw easy ends extra feel finished foam fold frame front half hang headboard height hemmed Insert inside interfacing keep leaving length look machine makeover mark match Measure and cut napkins NOTE opening opposite panel pieces pillow piping pocket projects pull raw edges rectangle ribbon right side right sides facing rings scraps screw seam allowance seat sewing shade simple sofa space square staple step stitch strap strip style sure surface template thread top edge trim tuck turn twill tape width window wrong side yard yard of fabric zipper