Sewing for All Seasons: 24 Stylish Projects to Stitch Throughout the Year

by Susan Beal

Overview

From autumn's bursts of orange and red to spring's lush greens, summer's long-lasting golden light and winter's cool whites and grays, the changing seasons provide endless artistic inspiration. In Sewing for All Seasons, author Susan Beal offers 24 beautiful projects imbued with the spirit of each season. Home sewists will enjoy stitching a cozy patchwork throw for autumn, a bright gardening apron to welcome spring, a colorful picnic quilt for summer, and soft woolen slippers for those chilly winter nights. With how-to illustrations, helpful templates and patterns, tons of color, and eye-catching photography, this book will leap off shelves and inspire crafters all year long.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781452114286
Publisher:	Chronicle Books LLC
Publication date:	10/15/2013
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	7.70(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Susan Beal is a craft expert, author, and the founder of West Coast Crafty. She writes for craft magazines and websites and was included in the acclaimed film Handmade Nation. She is the author of World of Geekcraft and lives in Portland, Oregon.

Editorial Reviews

10/21/2013
Beal's second book is a pleasant collection of sewing projects; none of the patterns are ground-breaking, but all are appealing versions of classic, relatively simple sewing ideas. The organizing idea of the book is to split the projects into four sections by seasons. Thus, spring offers a nicely proportioned Vintage Scarf Headband, while summer offers a brightly colored, string-pieced Picnic Quilt, and fall brings a warming Coffee Cup Cozy before winter finishes up with the holiday-party-ready Cute-as-a-Button Handbag. With the exception of the holiday patterns, few of these projects are so seasonally specific that they couldn't be adapted. Beal provides thorough instructions throughout, along with helpful initial guidelines for the techniques she employs. There are schematics, but this is a text-heavy sewing book, probably best suited for sewists with some experience who aren't visual learners. All together, it's short on pizzazz perhaps, but long on practical, livable designs. Full-color photos. (Oct.)

Publishers Weekly

"Susan Beal's Sewing for All Seasons is pretty close to perfect when it comes to hitting a balance of what I look for in a crafty book: lots of inspiration, modernity, realistic skill requirements and desirability of finished projects."
-Janel Laban, Apartment Therapy

"Susan Beal's Sewing for All Seasons is pretty close to perfect when it comes to hitting a balance of what I look for in a crafty book: lots of inspiration, modernity, realistic skill requirements and desirability of finished projects."
-Janel Laban, Apartment Therapy

"Susan Beal's Sewing for All Seasons is pretty close to perfect when it comes to hitting a balance of what I look for in a crafty book: lots of inspiration, modernity, realistic skill requirements and desirability of finished projects."
-Janel Laban, Apartment Therapy

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