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One-Yard Wonders: 101 Sewing Fabric Projects; Look How Much You Can Make with Just One Yard of Fabric! |  | Authors: Rebecca Yaker, Patricia Hoskins
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 1615
Media: Hardcover-spiral
Edition: Spi
Pages: 304
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 9 x 1.4
ISBN: 1603424490
Dewey Decimal Number: 646.2
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ASIN: 1603424490
Publication Date: October 28, 2009
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Product Description
With more than 200,000 copies in print, Storey's One-Skein Wonders series is an unqualified success. Now, for the first time in the series, fabric takes center stage! And the timing couldn't be better. Sewing machine sales have doubled over the past 10 years, and crafters are discovering the joy of another kind of stitching.
One-Yard Wonders will delight anyone who has ever fallen for fabric - from the novice sewing enthusiast to the lifelong seamstress. The book presents a delightful array of simple, stylish projects that can be made with just a single yard of fabric - from apparel to accessories, from plush toys to pet beds, from baby items to bags, and from home decor to "Happy Birthday" banners. Projects have a hip,contemporary flair, and most can be completed in a few hours. For each project, the book provides a full-color photograph, easy step-by-step instructions, and simple illustrations. Templates and pattern pieces are also included wherever needed, making this collection of 101 projects the best sewing deal ever.
Great fabric demands to be purchased, even if it's just a yard or two at a time. But such tantalizing textiles should never hide in a closet; One-Yard Wonders promises gift-worthy solutions for that stash of irresistible fabric-store buys. At last, it's time to stop storing and start sewing!
Like to sew? Want free fabric? Visit www.storey.com to enter Storey's Yard-of-the-Month Sweepstakes. No purchase necessary. Open to all US residents, 18 years or older. All entries must be recieved by February 28, 2010. Complete official rules posted at www.storey.com. Void where prohibited.
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Great ideas March 21, 2010
Peggy M. Spivey (Blountville, TN)
I thought this was a great book for ideas on using small pieces of fabric. As in any book on sewing, you won't be interested in all of the ideas, but just to get 4 or 5 good ideas is worth the price of the book.
It's a spiral bound book inside a hard cover, and it has an envelope for the pattern pieces on the inside front cover...very clever ! This would be a good starter book for the new seamstress or a teen thinking about it. It would inspire them to make items to sell or give as gifts.
If you're looking for ideas for rainy day projects, pick one of these ideas and let everyone be creative !
 I like this book and yet I dislike it. March 18, 2010
Insert Pseudonym (USA)
I'm a fairly experienced sewer, but haven't been sewing much the past few years until I got a pattern book last year and dived back in. Having a large stash of fabric in single yards this book appealed to me and I got it. I picked out several simple projects that didn't need extra materials and did them with ease. When I got my hands on a lot of coupons I got the extra materials needed for several projects and I've been going whole hog on the weekends and it's been great fun.
However, the book has flaws. It's geared towards the beginning sewer, but it does this sort of "cute" thing where instead of having length and width, dimension are "wide" and "tall." Tall always being parallel to the selvage. This might be alright except in those instances where the "tall" dimension is shorter than the width. This could confuse anyone, especially a beginner. And that might might be alright, but a beginner moving on to other patterns books and the like will have to adjust to the normal "width" and "length." I really can't approve of something that goes off the standard language of sewing patterns, uniformity and universality is a good thing. It means anyone can come to it and understand it because they know it from elsewhere.
There's also the issue that some of these patterns were not properly vetted. There are errors and an inexperienced sewer will not know how to adjust things to make them work, especially since the photograph of the project in some instances will not match what you do even when following the instructions exactly. The most striking error is in the "Collapsible Shopping Tote." The fabric is folded in half, the pattern laid on the fold and cut out...twice, but the pattern piece is more than half the length of one yard, making it impossible to cut out two. (It's like being given a yard of string and being told to cut two two feet pieces out of it.) I know how to get around this, but someone with less experience might not.
As others have noted the instructions themselves are not as thorough as they should be for a beginner. In other words you have a book ostensibly good for a beginner that really requires more experience to fill in the gaps in the instructions, and for an experienced sewer there are not a lot of patterns that are new and exciting. Reducing the number of patterns and doubling the length of instructions and illustrations would have yielded a better book.
And a final caveat: they may all call for one yard of fabric, but there are precious few that do not call for many other materials from fusible interfacing, to elastic, snaps, ribbons, bias tape. etc. It truly would be a wonder if ALL you needed was one yard of fabric.
Having said all that the book has been useful to me. There are many projects that I can follow or adapt to make useful things I probably wouldn't have thought to make without the inspiration.
 Awesome Book! March 17, 2010
MidwestMom (USA)
I am new to sewing and really love this book! I love this book because for the money you really can not beat getting 101 projects (or 106 projects if you get this book from Barnes and Noble) .... as with any craft book there are patterns I will not use (like the Spats!), but overwhelmingly there are a lot of great patterns in here that I cannot wait to make! Some that I am looking forward to making are: tabletop ironing board cover, cottage apron, oven mitt and hot pads, wineglass coasters, all-you-need sewing kit, sewing machine cover, collapsible shopping tote, strapless belted tunic, bias skirt, summer nightie, flouncy bag, folklore bag, scrunchie bag, festive flag banners, cuddly bear cushion, Elodie the Elephant, "Olivia the Owl" (barnes and noble copy), and the "Cat Crinkle Sack" (barnes and noble copy). I have made two project thus far (the "not ugly car trash bag", and the "peg bear"), and both were really easy to make and turned out awesome. The directions for this project were very easy for me to understand, and as I said I am very new to sewing. Some great features of this book are: nice color photographs, spiral bound so it lays flat, great how to and resources section, and also a diagram of how to lay your pattern pieces out on your fabric (which all sewing books should have in my opnion!). The patterns are divided up by function ... for example "Household Affairs", "Carry It All", "Playtime", etc. As I also hinted at earlier, if you get this book at Barnes and Noble (like I did!), you actually get 5 extra bonus patterns that are not included in other editions for a total of 106 patterns ... the extra patterns are for a stuffed owl, a baby doll carrier, a clothespin bag, a cat crinkle sack, and a bicycle duffle bag. I thought it was worth it to buy the book at Barnes and Noble for the extra patterns.
There are some aspects that I wish were improved. In the "Outfit Your Small Wonder" section of the book, all of the patterns except for a newborn jacket are for girls. I have 3 boys, so it would have been nice to have at least one pattern for boys. But, my major gripe would be the super cheap way they have the paper patterns stored. As you can imagine, with there being 101 projects in the book there are A LOT of paper patterns. All of these brown paper patterns are crammed into this small envelope that is stuck to the inside of the book cover with a small bit of glue. You have to pull the envelope off in order to get to the patterns, and once you do that the envelope will not stick very well anymore. This could have been really improved by having some type of permanent pocket attached to the cover (like other sewing books do) to store the patterns. And once you pull out the patterns, because the envelope is so small, it is nearly impossible to get them all back in.
But, my complaints are minor, this is a great book. I understand that there may be some errors in this book ... you can go to the publishers website ([...]), and there are corrections on the site for 3 or 4 patterns.
A great book!
fun, quick projects March 16, 2010
Mel A. (Portland, OR)
This book is great for those just learning to sew, including fun projects that are quick to make. My only issue is that the instructions could be a little more descriptive, many of them lack step by step photos. I've run into problems with a couple of projects where I could not figure out the instructions and had to rip the seams and retry a few times. Other than that, definitely worth having for afternoon projects.
Love at first sight March 16, 2010
K. McClain (East Texas)
I LOVE this book! I bought it for my friend for her birthday and I almost kept it for myself! It came in like 3 weeks before her b-day and I never stopped looking at it! Most of the projects are really cute, but of course with 101 projects there were a few that I didn't like. But I was surprised that I really did like most of them. And a lot of them can be altered easily to fit your needs. Not every project has a pattern which is ok with me. Some of them (like the sewing machine cover or mail organizer) just have directions with dimensions which was not as complicated as it may sound. I only completed one project from the book, and my friend did two, and those three were all pretty easy. I don't think any of the projects in the book take up too much time. There are plenty of diagrams, but on the project i completed (which was the sewing machine cover) they used a diagram on a very simple step, but not on a more coplicated sounding step. So, if you have trouble following written directions keep that in mind. A lot of the stuff in this book you could probably think of or create on your own, but I still highly recommend it! It's fun to look through and get ideas from and would be especially helpful if you need a gift last minute, etc.
Bottom Line: Get it!
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