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Title: Country Living Crafting Vintage Style: Charming Projects for Home & Garden by The Editors of Country Living, Christina Strutt ISBN: 1-58816-241-9 Publisher: Hearst Books Pub. Date: 15 March, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 1 (1 review)
Rating: 1
Summary: This book is not worth purchasing.
Comment: A few pretty pictures and little substance. I purchased this book and her "Decorating Vintage Style". Very few ideas in either book - pretty cover, a few pictures, very little text. Neither are worth the purchase price. If you are looking for a vintage decorating or craft book, any other than these would be a better investment. For example, in the craft book, she shows, with very limited instructions and a picture or two, how to make a duvet cover. Then you use the exact same technique to make a pillow cover. For your next craft, you use the exact same technique to make an herbal slumber pillow. At 92 pages and just a few "crafts", you really are loosing when she spends a quarter of the book "teaching" (very loose definition here) you to use the same technique over and over. I think she was just using filler to get a book out. I was extremely disappointed in both of her books.
You are also given "instructions" on how to make a celebration skirt. Later in the book you find the exact same instructions on how to make a summer skirt. She did the same thing with a few blankets, too. You will not glean any new ideas from this book, I'm quite sure. And if you are a complete beginner at sewing, her instructions are not sufficient. If you are an experienced sewist or crafts person, you've probably already made everything in the book.
The book contains "30 stunning projects that will make a room loving and warm". They are:
Scalloped shelf edging, simple slipcovers, summer curtain, basin skirt (using velcro hang gathered fabric from sink), heart shape cushion (cut a heart shape - stuff), beaded pot cover (trim a piece of fabric with lace and beads - hang over a pot), storage boxes (purchased boxes covered with your fabric), fabric covered basket, greeting cards (fold a piece of cardstock - decorate - my children do this all the time), cozy cushions (instructions repeated throughout book on different projects), clothespin board (nail clothespins to a board), dog blanket, dog bowl mat (cover board with some oilcloth), herbal slumber pillow (same techniques as cushions), duvet cover (basically same technique as cushions), summer skirt, scented sachets - sew a tube, tie with a ribbon, laundry bags (sew a sack - insert a cord)), plaid teddy bear (cut out teddy bear shape - stuff - my children thought it was kind of ugly), celebration skirt (same as summer skirt but embroider with running stitches Merry Christmas (or something else) along hem), tab headed curtains (same as summer curtains basically), fabric roses (strips of unhemmed fabrics gathered into a "rose", gardener's apron (you make your own pattern from looking at her picture), linen-covered journal, frayed napkins (edge stitch pieces of linen and fray. She does not tell you to pull a thread to get these on grain as it will not turn out if you don't), lined picnic basket (using your own pattern cut fabric to line your wire or wicker basket), child's play tent (edge finish some fabric and hang over a clothesline), beach rug (edge finish some fabric). That's it. The same techniques repeated.
Any of my children's crafts books are cheaper and contain much more in the way of ideas and instructions.
Good points:
The photos are nice, as the author used to be a stylist for magazines. Her fabrics are pretty too. She owns Cabbages and Roses and uses her products throughout the book.
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Title: Country Living Decorating Vintage Style: Using Romantic Fabrics and Flea Market Finds by Christina Strutt ISBN: 1588162400 Publisher: Hearst Books Pub. Date: 15 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Vintage Fabric Style: Stylish Ideas and Projects Using Quilts and Flea-Market Finds in Your Home by Lucinda Ganderton, Rose Hammick, Catherine Gratwicke, Sylvie Simmons ISBN: 1841724165 Publisher: Ryland Peters & Small Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Country Living Cottage Style by The Editors of Country Living, Marie Proeller Hueston ISBN: 1588161080 Publisher: Hearst Books Pub. Date: 28 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Cottage Style: Ideas and Projects for Your World by Jerri Farris, Tim Himsel ISBN: 1589230574 Publisher: Creative Publishing International Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Vintage Treasures by Jane Cassini, Ann Brownfield, Caroline Arber ISBN: 1841722871 Publisher: Ryland Peters & Small Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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