As the Fashion Director at "Elle" magazine, Nina has learned an indispensable fact - women love lists. They love making them, reading about them, following them, crossing each item off, etc. "The One Hundred" will be a thoroughly researched take on these attainable items, featuring Ruben Toledo's stand-out, signature illustrations. She will ...
With "Boutique Knits", you can make your very own knockout accessories. If you love showing your personal style with the "it" handbag, funky scarf, or the hat that makes heads turn, then this book is for you.Laura Irwin designs knitted accessories for the trendsetting indie designer fashion boutique Seaplane in Portland, Oregon, and is ...
From costume designer and fashion stylist Mathieson comes a fresh, fun guide for mothers on looking modern and hip, and for daughters on looking cool and classic--achieved by swapping styles and borrowing from each other's closets. 180 full-color photos.
Following on the heels of the widely popular Bags With Style, this book opens up the author's unique contemporary style to much more than just bags. Readers will create 30 projects, some in coordinated sets, all in fabulous modern styles. A multitude of gorgeous purses, belts, detachable collars, shawls, hats and scarves, can be made using the ...
From sunglasses and scarves to handbags and heels, this text cuts through the endless options in accessories to help define a personal style. This is one of the small-format titles in the "Chic Simple" series of guides to living in the 90s.
Imagine a hobby that's a proven stress reliever, highly portable, exceptionally versatile, and requires only one, affordable, simple-to-operate, no-tech tool. No wonder crocheting is enjoying a creative renaissance and attracting crowds of newbie needlecrafters. With Crochet in No Time, anyone can make something stunning to wear, lovely to display ...
"Fashion Geek" introduces a new craft of fashionable and playable electronic clothes and accessories. This book teaches basic electronic and hacking skills and combines them with simple but stylish sewing projects DIY crafters will love, including a 'Blooming Buttons' jacket with flower buttons that light up when the jacket is buttoned, a 'Get-the ...
"Fly Tops & Funky Flavas", the second title in the "Get Your Crochet On!" series, provides style and attitude for crocheters desperately in search of hip, urban patterns. This original collection with patterns for men and women from custom crocheter Afya Ibomu includes sexy halter tops, bikinis and tanks, as well as fun accessories like earrings, ...
A pair of outgrown or outworn denim jeans and a creative spirit is all sewers need when they turn to this easy-to-use guide for transforming recycled denim into dynamic clothing. More than 150 colourful step-by-step photos, directions and patterns help sewers of all levels to inexpensively create vests, purses, belts and other denim-driven ...
Every year 75 million Baby Boomers spend $100 billion on clothes--but you'd never know it to look at them. "Forever Cool" is a guide for those who are asking, "How can I look great and still be age-appropriate?" Clever, affordable tips that let those people approaching or over 50 express their personalities with a way of dressing that is stylish, ...
COOL CROCHET offers the growing market of crocheters 30 fresh and fashionable designs. Illustrated with dramatic fashion photography, this collection of quick knits, includes such wearables as tanks, pullovers, cardigans, hooded sweaters, and a bikini, and accessories like purses, hats, and jewellery. Also provided are "Cool Tips" - specific ...
Projects for creating a variety of disguises using false features, fake hair, and masks, as well as such costume items and accessories as hats, cloaks, swords, and fairy wands.
Featured are hats, purses, hankies, gloves, fans, parasols, hosiery, shoes, aprons, and capes. This book is a compelling photo study of the styles for each era - Victorian, Edwardian, Roaring Twenties, Depression, WWII, Fabulous Fifties, and Modern - and identification and value guide for collectors of vintage fashion. 2005 values.
Every year 75 million baby boomers spend $100 billion on clothes. "Forever Cool" is a guide for those who are asking, "How can I look great and still be age-appropriate?" Clever, affordable tips that let those people approaching or over 50 express their personalities with a way of dressing that is stylish, practical, and utterly cool.
Linda Fry Kenzle explains each project in easy-to-follow steps (many projects can be done in one sitting!) and includes such helpful features as a jewelrymaker's glossary and tips on how to sew leather.
In this companion guide to "Contemporary Machine-Embroidered Fashions" (ISBN: 0-89689-303-0) sewers learn how to select the right fabrics, patterns and sewers will learn how to select the right fabrics, patterns and embroidery designs to create the accessories they crave.Whether it's co-ordinating with garments featured in the companion book or ...
Q: What takes only a weekend to crochet, but is something you will enjoy wearing for years to come? A: Each of the 20 simple stylish projects in this book! - Crochet Basics - Projects - Stitch & Pattern Symbol Library - - Enchanted evening bag - Jewel-tone scarf and hat - Autumn leaves applique - - Mini belt bag - Fern forest scarf - Fern leaf ...
- Dolls: a perennial favorite, and a booming market- Projects all made from easy-to-obtain household materials.- Crafts sized for popular 18-inch dolls
Make a fashion statement with "Double Stitch: Designs for the Crochet Fashionista", a collection of stylish, sexy, and modern crochet patterns for the fashion diva.Chicago-based crochet designers and twins Erika and Monika Simmons bring edge to the craft with twenty-five fashion-forward projects inspired by their retail design line using simple ...
Imagine earrings, a brooch, a bowl, a bag - all made out of yards of gorgeous, colorful threads! Sound impossible? Simply stitch threads onto water-soluble stabilizer; then immerse your project in water. Only dazzling threads remain.Sew multiple layers of thread to create amazing blends of color, depth, and dimension in eight projects, plus ...
Included in in this book in the Planet Girl series are doll-ups for duds, re-dos for dos, jewelry rethinks and the ultimate accessories, bags. It's all versatile stuff girls can show off anywhere and everywear!
Includes step-by-step instructions for creating an array of couture garments and accessories for art dolls and provides insight into a variety of techniques including sewing, painting, dyeing, collage, draping, and pattern-making.
In an age of mass-produced fashion, rediscover your individual style with these fantastic projects. "The New Handmade" shows you how to make fun and exciting handmade projects for your wardrobe and home with only basic sewing skills. Now you can make fun, useful accessories and gifts with the contemporary fabrics you love. Express your own ...
Offers decoration ideas using easily available items, including instructions for a Holly Golightly-style handbag, a Mystery Date End Table, and a Car Carma Dashboard Shrine.
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