Product Description

A girl can never have too many bags, and when she's shopped the store dry, this is the book she needs to start making her own - fast!Step-by-step projects show how to make a range of amazing yet simple bags, from easy shoppers and simple day-time bags, to glamourous evening bags, cosmopolitan weekend bags and even a cute laundry bag.Sassy accessories complement the bags, allowing you to practise the techniques or get the look on a smaller scale (smart girls use up their leftover fabric).This book focuses on fabric choice and embellishments, such as ribbon, buttons and beads, as a way of ensuring the simplest of designs is as eye-catching and covetable as any designer 'It-bag'.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #52452 in Books
• Published on: 2008-04-18
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

Review
Review from Crafts Beautiful - The perfect beginner's guide , it illustrates all the basic techniques, including applique, quilting, patchwork and cross stitch, with clear step-by-step instructions. This is a must have title! --Crafts Beautiful

Review from Quick & crafty - This is a fab treat of a book. It's sure to make bag ladies of us all! --Quick & crafty

Review from Quick & crafty - This is a fab treat of a book. It's sure to make bag ladies of us all! --Quick & crafty

Review from Quick & crafty - This is a fab treat of a book. It's sure to make bag ladies of us all! --Quick & crafty

About the Author
Sally Southern works as a self-employed textile artist/designer freelancing in all areas of art and design, including fashion and furnishings. She regularly contributes to magazines, including Crafts Beautiful and has worked on several books. Sally lives in Tyne & Wear.

Customer Reviews

some poor finishing
The title is an accurate reflection of this book. There are a good number of easily achievable projects and there are a lot of shortcuts suggested to save time. However, some of the shortcuts, for example using double-sided sticky tape (that doesn't hold braid very well) and highly visible seams (instead of working inside out), can be seen not to work well as some of the finishing in the book's own photographs looks very shoddy. I will still use this book as it does have some very good tips regarding alternative materials, such as table mats and PVC coated fabric, but I will use better techniques to make my pieces. If you are the kind of person that likes to churn out projects quickly and don't mind the finishing, you would probably give this book 5 stars. I like my home-made pieces to be extremely well-finished, to be for keepers, rather than disposable crafts or fads.

Sew many bags sew little time
Lovely book of bags to make and decorate and ideas for makes from the oddments you have left over.There isn't one of the bags I wouldn't want to make.