Half Yard Home

by Debbie Shore

Sewing superstar, Debbie Shore, has designed 40 gorgeous home accessories that can be made using half a yard of fabric or less. The projects are divided into accessories for the Living Room, Dining Room, Kitchen and Bedroom, with a special section for picnics. Clear step by step instructions and beautiful photography make it easy to create desirable projects from a tablecloth, magazine box, chair slip, napkins, napkin ring, oven mitt, apron, tea cosy, cafe curtain and jewellery roll, to a picnic place mat, bread bag and bottle bag, and more. Debbie's flair for design and eye for fresh, beautiful fabrics make these home accessories that readers will make to run up for themselves.

Genres: Sewing, Crafts

96 pages, Paperback

First published October 6, 2014

Reviews

[Tracy Shephard · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you love sewing you will know the name Debbie Shore..

She is a woman with remarkable success designing, making and teaching all of us the fundamental basics of sewing while giving us the most beautiful and inspiring ideas for our homes, our children, and everything else in between.

Half Yard Home is a wonderful book, filled with pretty and useful ideas to beautify every corner of where we live. 

Bags, Jewellery rolls, and cushions are easily explained and with useful sewing tips and methods even a beginner will have no trouble getting to grips with these projects.

What I especially love about Ms Shore, is that everything she creates is inexpensive. You can you use your leftover scraps or recycle your favourite clothing that is no longer useful.

She also allows the sewist to sell the items you make for a tidy profit. 

She loves nothing more than bringing the craft and her ideas to those of us who are looking for easy sewing projects that will teach us new skills and enable us to love what we achieve. 

This book is perfect for everyone, and as always the projects are perfectly photographed using a step by step method. 

Highly recommended and a beautiful gift for anyone who loves to stitch.

[Alexandria · Rating 3 out of 5]

Many of the projects in this book are along the lines of pillows, tea cozies, and the like. I liked some of them, but for the most part they weren't to my taste: I'm not much one for throw pillows or cozies, and the apron pattern included was for a child....which makes sense given that an adult apron would likely take more than half a yard.

That being said, I like how much instruction Shore gives at the beginning of the book as well as the detail in the instructions she includes with the patterns.

[Kate · Rating 4 out of 5]

I thought this book is wonderful with some neat ideas of items I can make out or little material that will be done quickly.

[Doris · Rating 4 out of 5]

Other than a few terms which could / souls have been clearly explained, this us an excellent book for a beginner.

[Christine · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book

[Angela · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some lovely little projects in this book. Look forward to getting my machine out over the xmas break and actually creating something, and this book has plenty to keep me occupied.