Make Do and Mend
Published on 15. February 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
96 pages
978-1-84091-425-2 (ISBN)
Description
"Make Do and Mend" will bring out your thrifty side, revealing inventive ways to mend everything from clothes to bed linen. "Make Do and Mend" demystifies all those things your grandmother could do - from darning and patching to hemming and trimming. Taking items from the home and wardrobe, Katie Ebben teaches you easy ways to give your soft furnishings and clothes a new lease of life, whether patching the knees of your favourite jeans, disguising a hole in your cashmere cardie, lengthening curtains with a false hem or hiding the worn edge of a bed sheet with pretty ribbon trim. There are also plenty of ideas for customizing items and inventive ways to make use of fabric remnants. A glossary of terms guarantees perfect results for even the most inexperienced of seamstresses.
"Make Do and Mend" will bring out your thrifty side, revealing inventive ways to mend everything from clothes to bed linen. "Make Do and Mend" demystifies all those things your grandmother could do - from darning and patching to hemming and trimming. Taking items from the home and wardrobe, Katie Ebben teaches you easy ways to give your soft furnishings and clothes a new lease of life, whether patching the knees of your favourite jeans, disguising a hole in your cashmere cardie, lengthening curtains with a false hem or hiding the worn edge of a bed sheet with pretty ribbon trim. There are also plenty of ideas for customizing items and inventive ways to make use of fabric remnants. A glossary of terms guarantees perfect results for even the most inexperienced of seamstresses.
"Make Do and Mend" will bring out your thrifty side, revealing inventive ways to mend everything from clothes to bed linen. "Make Do and Mend" demystifies all those things your grandmother could do - from darning and patching to hemming and trimming. Taking items from the home and wardrobe, Katie Ebben teaches you easy ways to give your soft furnishings and clothes a new lease of life, whether patching the knees of your favourite jeans, disguising a hole in your cashmere cardie, lengthening curtains with a false hem or hiding the worn edge of a bed sheet with pretty ribbon trim. There are also plenty of ideas for customizing items and inventive ways to make use of fabric remnants. A glossary of terms guarantees perfect results for even the most inexperienced of seamstresses.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Octopus Publishing Group
Illustrations
illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 212 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
368 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84091-425-2 (9781840914252)
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Katie Ebben trained as a printed textile designer before completing a postgraduate course in Art and Design History. She was Deputy Editor of Elle Decoration and before that Editor of Kitchens, Bedrooms & Bathrooms magazine. Katie now works as a freelance interiors stylist and writer and is co-Editor of Coast magazine. She is author of Wall Effects and Stitch it, also published by Conran Octopus.
Katie Ebben trained as a printed textile designer before completing a postgraduate course in Art and Design History. She was Deputy Editor of Elle Decoration and before that Editor of Kitchens, Bedrooms & Bathrooms magazine. Katie now works as a freelance interiors stylist and writer and is co-Editor of Coast magazine. She is author of Wall Effects and Stitch it, also published by Conran Octopus.
Katie Ebben trained as a printed textile designer before completing a postgraduate course in Art and Design History. She was Deputy Editor of Elle Decoration and before that Editor of Kitchens, Bedrooms & Bathrooms magazine. Katie now works as a freelance interiors stylist and writer and is co-Editor of Coast magazine. She is author of Wall Effects and Stitch it, also published by Conran Octopus.