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Dream Sewing Spaces

Design & Organization for Spaces Large & Small — Second Edition

by Lynette Ranney Black

At last… a book to help you turn your dream into a reality. Whether you have a closet, laundry room, a corner of the family room, a spare bedroom, or even the attic, author Lynette Ranney Black guides and inspires you with pages of color photos, plus, selecting lighting and cabinets. Learn how to make the most of the space you have. Check out the hundreds of storage ideas. She even shows you how to reorganize existing closets to make room for sewing storage.

Some of you might want a private space to escape to. Other of you want (or need) to integrate your sewing space into family space. Lynette has ideas for it all…plus information on specialty sewing that addresses the needs of professional dressmakers (including bridal and home decorating), quilters, crafters, and teachers.

You’ll find ideas for spaces large and small…such as a sewing room fit into a butler’s pantry. You’ll also find help planning exactly how to set up your space, from ergonomically correct heights and distances, to optimum lighting, colors, and materials.

Creative Serging for the Home and Other Quick Decorating Ideas

SECOND EDITION
by Lynette Ranney Black and Linda Wisner

Discover hundreds of decorating ideas. Inviting, personalized rooms range from rustic and country to contemporary and elegant, with inspiring photos and easy-to-follow illustrated how-tos for window and wall coverings, table toppers, furniture and bed covers, pillows, napkins and accessories. Easy no-sew techniques combined with serger finishes, decorative threads and simple sewing.

Your home should be a satisfying place. You should feel GOOD there. Our goal in this book is to help you make that happen.

199 Different Projects With How-Tos!  Some with serging, some with simple sewing, some with no sewing at all!

The home decorating projects in this book are far from intimidating. Some are almost instant. Many start with fabric rectangles or squares sewn together with simple, straight seaming and then are finished on the machine or serger. Whether simple or slightly more involved, we guide you through each project, highlighting where serging makes the project faster, easier, more durable, or more creative. We also highlight quick projects.

Pick a whole room, a corner of a room, or just a placemat or pillow, then make it your own!

WINNER OF A PROFITABLE CRAFT MERCHANDISING ASSOCIATION AWARD OF EXCELLENCE AS “BEST SEWING BOOK” THE YEAR IT WAS PUBLISHED.

NOTE: The fabrics and some of the notions and resources we used in this book are no longer available. But so many new fabrics and sewing tools are out there now, and internet searches make finding them so much easier! If you love fabric and you love your home, you’ll love this book!