More Sewing For The Home

"More Sewing for the Home" has been freshened up with new fabrics, new techniques, & new projects. The book contains over 40 projects for decorating every room in the home, including window treatments, bathroom accents, fabric screens, pillows, & bedding ensembles. With an emphasis on personalizing the home, the reader is offered a decorator's perspective on planning the overall scheme, including selecting fabric & adding unique touches.

More Sewing for the Home adds to your decorating skills by providing a helpful planning and coordinating guide. You can use the items in this book individually to enhance your existing decor, or by coordinating fabrics, you can make these ideas work together throughout your home.

More Sewing for the Home is a helpful planning and coordinating guide for the do-it-yourself home decor sewer. You will find tips and techniques used by professional designers to help you plan and decorate in your own unique style. The first section covers developing a home decorating plan, how to mix prints and colors, and how to select the appropriate fiber and finish for the project, as well as construction basics and designer tips. The rest of the book is divided into three sections: o Window Treatments -- Shows how-too for creating tent-flap curtains, tapered valances, padded cornices, and more. o Cushions & Pillows -- Covers every style such as tie-tab pillows, mock box pillows, and trendy double-flange pillows. o Bed & Bath -- Includes step-by-step instructions for duvet covers, futon covers, and sink & vanity skirts, and shower curtains. Colorful photographs show how your project should look at each step of construction, ensuring success.

Following on from the hugely successful Me and My Sewing Machine, this book will help you explore further the pleasures of sewing. Having learned all the basics, and made firm friends with your sewing machine, you will want to expand your skills to make the projects you produce come together more easily, and look better once finished. This requires a combination of machine and hand-sewing techniques, but none to be afraid of! The detailed step-by-step photographs and clear instructions will show you how to achieve invisible or decorative finishes that are quicker and easier than you might imagine, and that add a couture touch to your projects. From invisible hems to lace seams, custom-matched buttons to embellished zippers, you'll learn how to add the little details that make all the difference, especially when you have invested in a gorgeous fabric and lovely pattern. Overly complicated techniques that take hours to produce nothing remarkable are carefully avoided! There are also two chapters of decorative techniques that will stand you in great stead when it comes to perking up a plain project, or upcycling something simple into something stunning. Put some of the techniques into practice to create the six specially designed projects that combine practicality and good looks. There are accessories and home wares, and projects that include both machine and hand-sewing. This is a great book for those who want to expand their sewing horizons, learn new skills, and make the most of their love of sewing.

This book teaches all the skills home sewers need to make beautiful, stylish projects. Shows how to make inspirational soft furnishings to enhance every room of the house. Comprehensive presentation of both basic and advanced techniques. Each method is explained with clear step-by-step instructions and photographs, then applied to a range of pretty contemporary projects. Beautifully styled and exquisitely detailed.

31 functional projects including DIY window treatments, linens, organizers, rugs, pillows, and accessories for every space in your home. Work with cording and zippers, blind hems, and home decor fabric, with tips from a professional designer. Complement any style when you learn interior design basics that will turn your house into a welcoming retreat.

The Family Meets the Depression was first published in 1939. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. There have been very few studies of normal, happy family life. One such study, "The Family in the Present Social Order," by Ruth Lindquist, presented the circumstances of several hundred normal American families in 1927, one of the most prosperous years of our history. The present investigation is a follow-up of Miss Lindquist's. Miss Morgan compares the circumstances of 331 of these families as they were in that year with those of the same families in 1933, which perhaps was the blackest year of the depression. The problems faced and the manner in which they were solved are carefully analyzed and presented in eminently readable form. Including as they do depleted incomes, lack of help in the household, dependent relatives, and health difficulties, these problems are in numerous ways typical of those faced by thousands of American families today. The findings of this study should possess considerable significance not only for students of home economics but also for sociologists, parent educators, and psychologists concerned with problems of personal adjustment.