Collins & Brown
Simplicity® Home Decorating
Step-by-Step Sewing Techniques and Easy-to-Make Soft Furnishings
By Simplicity (Author)
OVERVIEW
Whatever your soft-furnishing project in the home, the world-famous Simplicity Pattern Company can help you do it. This is the one-stop decorating and sewing reference you’ll turn to every time.
To have a beautifully decorated home, you need an artful and harmonious blend of colors, patterns, and textures. Simplicity® Home Decorating presents you with a whole houseful of clever tips and doable projects to spruce up your living space—from window dressings and bedcovers to cushions and a range of accessories. It covers making a plan, choosing fabric (complete with a glossary), and sewing essentials, from equipment to finishing and decorative techniques. You don’t need to be an expert to get stunning results when making draperies, cornices, swags, jabots, duvets, knife-edge pillows, bolsters, tablecloths, placemats, and more: this comprehensive guide offers chapters of clear, easy-to-follow instructions and step-by-step techniques, along with colorful pages containing plenty of inspirational ideas.
To have a beautifully decorated home, you need an artful and harmonious blend of colors, patterns, and textures. Simplicity® Home Decorating presents you with a whole houseful of clever tips and doable projects to spruce up your living space—from window dressings and bedcovers to cushions and a range of accessories. It covers making a plan, choosing fabric (complete with a glossary), and sewing essentials, from equipment to finishing and decorative techniques. You don’t need to be an expert to get stunning results when making draperies, cornices, swags, jabots, duvets, knife-edge pillows, bolsters, tablecloths, placemats, and more: this comprehensive guide offers chapters of clear, easy-to-follow instructions and step-by-step techniques, along with colorful pages containing plenty of inspirational ideas.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S)
The Simplicity Pattern Company is the largest of its kind in the world and has provided customers with many years of easy-to-follow do-it-yourself projects. Simplicity offer the best and most comprehensive source for sewing information for both new and experienced sewers, as well as for those who are rediscovering the joys of this rewarding craft.