Product Description

Create beautiful yuletide accessories that enhance your home using stunningly simple but incredibly effective techniques.A Christmassy colour palette and lovable designs combine to create a festive and fun collection of over 35 projects.Easy-to-follow instructions, gorgeous colour photographs and delightful illustrations accompany each project.With ideas for the entire home from the kitchen to children's bedrooms everyone will find a project they adore, spreading a unique Christmas atmosphere throughout your house.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2968 in Books
• Published on: 2008-06-24
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 152 pages

Synopsis
Create beautiful yuletide accessories that enhance your home using stunningly simple but incredibly effective techniques.A Christmassy colour palette and lovable designs combine to create a festive and fun collection of over 35 projects.Easy-to-follow instructions, gorgeous colour photographs and delightful illustrations accompany each project.With ideas for the entire home from the kitchen to children's bedrooms everyone will find a project they adore, spreading a unique Christmas atmosphere throughout your house.

About the Author
Tone Finnanger has a distinctive style that is popular with crafters of all ages and abilities. She has written several books including Crafting Springtime Gifts (D&C, February 2006) and Crafting Christmas Gifts (D&C, September 2006) and Sew Pretty Homestyle (D&C, September 2007). She lives in Norway.

Customer Reviews

Modern and original
I was given this book for my birthday after buying "Sew Pretty Homestyle" for myself. I was equally pleased with both of them. I have very little experience of needlework and am quite young (24), in the past I have only been able to find new books but with really aged projects that have been around for years.

This was very refreshing. Very beautiful projects that seem simple to make and are very "now". I have just bought the equipment needed and can't wait to start the Christmas decorations particularly the little boots.

Downsides? I would say too many of those angels! And for complete beginners it might be useful to mention all the little things that are taken for granted as known, such as what stitch to use for the main work(backstitch?) rather than just "sew". However, this is a very small gripe, all other details are well covered.

Just more of the same
If you don't have the earlier book, Sew Pretty Homestyle, then this is a great book to have. But the techniques used, though clever in their simplicity, are the same as those in the earlier book. The slippers, dolls, fruit, etc, are more or less identical, just in different fabrics. The Babushka dolls are new and different though and very nice. The author has made the effort to include a section on boys' bedrooms but this is a bit unrealistic: far too pretty and girly for most little boys. This is a beautiful book and worth owning for that alone, but much of the beauty comes from the use of the author's own, specially designed fabrics, wrapping papers and paper cutouts. Would the items look as good made from other (less expensive) materials? Probably not.

Love it, love it, love it - every time I open it!
I adore the ideas in this book. Every time I open it, I get excited thinking about Christmas! As a bit of a novice, I've found the book to be very thorough, with explanations of how to complete the projects. The pictures are utterly gorgeous, and I find some of the more quirky ideas really inspiring! Can't wait to get started!!