'Sew! is a treasure trove of over 40 simple sewing projects - bags, cushions, quilts and much more - all designed by Cath Kidston using her signature printed fabrics.'The book is well designed and the projects are all practical and enable you make things you may actually need around the home like aprons, peg bags and oven gloves. For the fashion focused there are bags, purses and gadget cases.
The tutorials are well written and easy to follow and are rated according to their difficulty level which I think is handy because you can start off with an easier project and work your way up to the more difficult ones.
There is a good introductory guide to basic techniques at the front of the book explaining things like seams, fastenings and decorative elements.
I already know most of what is included in this guide so I found it very easy to understand and therefore could easily follow one of the tutorials, I wonder, would it be so easy if I was a complete beginner who had never sewn before?
Also I found it very peculiar that the seam allowance changed on each project, some had a 15mm seam allowance whereas others only had 6mm allowance.
Included with the book was a pattern sheet for you to trace off the relevant pattern for the project you are working on. It took me a while to get my head around it because of the amount of patterns squeezed onto one bit of paper. Each of the patterns are colour coded though so at least it was easy to follow each line and not get them confused.
I am going to make something from the book to find out just how user friendly it is. Wish me luck!
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