Home Made Vintage: Over 40 Quick and Easy Sewing Projects - Tapa blanda

40 easy-to-sew projects from the creative talent of Cabbages & Roses, the vintage-style fabric company, that will transform your home into a pure and pretty tableau of handcrafted detail. If you long to give your rooms a vintage air and country-cottage appeal, you will love the retro floral prints and timeless designs of Home-made Vintage, your perfect guide to creating handmade, easy elegance in your home. The book offers simple-sew projects to transform every room into the romantic retreat you've always wanted. In this step-by-step guide, Christina Strutt shows readers how to make a wealth of projects for the kitchen and bathroom, conservatory and bedroom - and for giving as gifts as well. A skilled stylist and designer, Christina reveals how to create a look that is personal and unique, but not at all labourintensive. Reusing old fabrics and accessories in new ways allows the vintage and modern to mingle beautifully - and also saves money and time. The charming projects highlighted in this delightful illustrated book include crisp linen chair covers, a chic fabric headboard, pretty flower aprons, dreamy voile bed curtains and soothing scented herbal pillows.

Christina Strutt runs Cabbages & Roses, a fabric company that specialises in historic rural printed fabrics for fashion, accessories and interiors. Cabbages & Roses has two outlets in London and the fabrics and all products are available through the website www.cabbagesandroses.com, and at selected Jigsaw shops across the UK. Christina is the author of Vintage Crafts (ISBN 9781904991120) and Cabbages & Roses Guide to Natural Housekeeping (ISBN 9781906094478), both available from CICO Books.