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The Sewists: DIY Projects from 20 Top Designer-Makers
The Sewists are a new breed of designer-makers. From jewelry to book-binding, felt craft to embroidery, screen printing to dressmaking, they encompass all areas of art and craft, and often combine techniques in new ways.
Author and fellow sewist Jo Perry has interviewed 20 designers about their working life and inspiration, and persuaded each one to part with a project for readers to make. Projects include a cameo brooch using freehand machine embroidery, a fun fur and felt creature, a circus troupe mobile, block-printed napkins, subversive cross stitch, and many more. Each project is clearly explained and includes step-by-step illustrations and specially commissioned photographs of the finished piece.
Also included is a CD containing templates, stitch charts, and a blouse pattern—everything you need to complete the projects in the book. Anyone who enjoys sewing and crafts, and can use a sewing machine, will relish The Sewists.
Author and fellow sewist Jo Perry has interviewed 20 designers about their working life and inspiration, and persuaded each one to part with a project for readers to make. Projects include a cameo brooch using freehand machine embroidery, a fun fur and felt creature, a circus troupe mobile, block-printed napkins, subversive cross stitch, and many more. Each project is clearly explained and includes step-by-step illustrations and specially commissioned photographs of the finished piece.
Also included is a CD containing templates, stitch charts, and a blouse pattern—everything you need to complete the projects in the book. Anyone who enjoys sewing and crafts, and can use a sewing machine, will relish The Sewists.
- GenresCrafts
144 pages, Paperback
First published August 29, 2014
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November 17, 2025
There's a variety of crafts but none of them grabbed me.
April 21, 2015
Wow, I just really did not like this one. Often I flip through a crafting book and think about how the projects are cute or nice but just not my style or thing. However flipping through this one all I could think was outdated and cheap...I liked one fuzzy little guy, but everything else looked like something from the past that should have stayed there, or just really cheap. You can make very nice looking projects very inexpensively but this took good fabrics and made inexpensive, junky, tacky type things. Kinda of backwards to me. Mabye the projects could be cute made by the right person and they just took horrible pictures for this book. I don't know, but I didn't like any of it and will be returning this book to the library without reading it because I can't get interested and focus on the text while looking at all the junk.
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