Sew Subversive: Down and Dirty DIY for the Fabulous Fashionista
by Melissa Rannels, Melissa Alvarado, Hope Meng
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Author: Hope Meng, Melissa Alvarado, Melissa RannelsEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Format: Illustrated
Published: 2006-09-05
ISBN: 1561588091
Number of pages: 192
Publisher: Taunton
Book Reviews of Sew Subversive: Down and Dirty DIY for the Fabulous Fashionista
Book Review: Sew-Sew
Summary: 2 Stars
Some interesting ideas and written in a non-threatening way. For a book that encourages you to customize however, it needs more focus on how to draft your own pattern and adjust it to fit your own body.
Will work really well if you are young, slim and flat chested. If you have curves however, you wont get much you can actually use from this book.
Summary of Sew Subversive: Down and Dirty DIY for the Fabulous Fashionista
Sew Subversive is about making fashion your own, whether it's embellishing or customizing off-the-rack clothing or transforming clothes that have lost that loving feeling. The three twenty-something co-owners of Stitch Lounge, an urban sewing studio in San Francisco, teach you, in plain, fun language, how to do it, whether you're hand sewing, machine sewing, or, in a few cases, simply wielding a pair of scissors.The first three chapters lay the ground work: Hand Sewing Basics, You and Your Machine, and Gearing Up, which includes Fabric 101, how to set up a sewing space, and a run-through first project on the sewing machine. Then the fun begins with Embellishing and Customizing projects, including adorning your pant legs with ribboning, turning a computer-scanned image into an iron-on that you can apply to a t-shirt or skirt, taking in a skirt, or untapering a pair of pants (the authors believe tapered pants are the devil's work). Then move onto Refashioning: The Next Life of Your Old Clothes and turn a t-shirt into a skirt, a sweater into a halter top or legwarmers, or a pair of pants into a hip belt. There are 22 projects in all, some of which only require an iron and/or pair of scissors, while others can be sewn by hand, for those readers who haven't yet made the sewing machine plunge.
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