Jean Therapy

by Scatha G. Allison, Marla Stefanelli, Wendy Tremayne (Foreword)

More than 20 projects and an array of gallery creations are imaginative and practical fashions-hardworking denim at play.Pair cast-off denim with a crafter's unyielding creativity and you have a craft with limitless possibility. Denim is the perfect fabric for many arts and craft methods: it is durable, washable, and dyeable; it can be cut, sliced, shredded, poked, prodded, and cinched. Jean Therapy teaches basic techniques - building anything from skirts, bags, vests, and accessories - and illuminates these basic techniques with dozens of clever, funky, and stylish variations.

Jean Therapy includes straightforward, illustrated instructions for more than 20 projects, running the gamut from simple accessories to reconstructed pants, skirts, and halter tops, each featuring design and personalization tips and techniques. Each project will have a main beauty shot, detail shots (as needed), and a number of technical step illustrations that show creation and assembly details.

It also includes a detailed chapter on customizing and tailoring clothing for a perfect fit - a key ingredient when working with repurposed clothing.

Genres: Sewing, Crafts, Nonfiction

136 pages, Spiral-bound

First published April 1, 2008

Reviews

[Snail in Danger (Sid) Nicolaides · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting. A lot of these things I wouldn't necessarily want to make out of denim, though they are nifty. Also, all of the models were reasonably slim and conventionally female-shaped ... so I could not say how these would work if your figure falls outside those confines. (Also, almost all the models were Anglo. Just sayin', but, meh. Also many of the pictures were faceless, which slightly rubs me the wrong way, though I can imagine if the models, say, were volunteers and didn't want to be identifiable.) There were suggestions at the beginning at the book for altering the patterns and such so ... who knows.

The included patterns are made of the usual pattern paper, so I didn't want to unfold them to take a look at them. (This is a library copy.)

[Aljan · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was SO excited about this book and ended up being completely let down. The projects are sloppy and look very, very homemade ~ not in a good way.