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 enlarge | Author: Amy Karol
Publisher: Potter Craft
Category: Book
List Price: $21.95
Buy New: $13.52
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Avg. Customer Rating:  73 reviews
Sales Rank: 7767
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 144
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 10.7 x 8.5 x 0.5
ISBN: 0307347214
Dewey Decimal Number: 646.2
EAN: 9780307347213
ASIN: 0307347214
Publication Date: June 19, 2007
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Condition: All products brand new. Exactly as Shown at Amazon.com
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 very basic August 13, 2007
8 out of 11 found this review helpful
It is a very basic sewing book and I was a little bit disappointed with the projects in the book. (The cover looks pretty, so I was kind of looking forward to it.) I am not a big fun of the choice of fabrics either. The instructions and drawings are sometimes difficult to understand. Her writing style is good. I like that "French Twist" sewing book better.
Good book for a beginner. August 10, 2007
Most of the information in this book is best for beginners. Unfortunately, I don't really think it's a whole new way to sew--it's the old way, with more tracing and less pinning. The author is really good at explaining complicated concepts, however, and she lets people use her patterns for commercial items as long as she is given appropriate credit. The patterns are cute and simple and she gives helpful little tips along the way. This book would make a great gift for a teenaged sewer who just got her first sewing machine.
Check out the Bend the Rules Sewing flickr group where people post their completed projects and you can ask Amy Karol questions!
 Color photos pack a guide designed to invite bare-bones beginners to sample the world of sewing. August 9, 2007
Sewing and humor don't commonly go together, but BEND-THE-RULES SEWING: THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO A WHILE NEW WAY TO SEW achieves this not just with new patterns and designs, but with a beginner-friendly approach that incorporates comments and appealing, different projects, from a headband to a dog's collar. Color photos pack a guide designed to invite bare-bones beginners to sample the world of sewing.
Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch
Good to read not just for the sewing August 8, 2007
This book provides some great little projects that mostly can be run up pretty easily. But it is also great reading with tips and interesting remarks by Amy. If you like her blog, you will really like this book.
disappointed... August 6, 2007
27 out of 29 found this review helpful
The pictures are beautiful, but the substance is lacking in some important (and frustrating) ways. I'm not a complete beginner, have used my machine quite a bit before, to hem and take in clothes, and successfully make a square-bottomed purse from a tutorial online, but I wanted to refresh my basics- and her "bend the rules" approach seemed attractive. However, she really doesn't bend any rules, except one- she's completely against fusible interfacing, and recommends using instead a layer of cotton flannel. So I made the "charming purse" project in the book (couldn't have been less aptly named), substituted cotton flannel for the interfacing, and as one would logically expect, I ended up with a very floppy, amorphous looking purse- very disappointing. Cotton flannel is like the softest fabric in the world, I'm not sure what she's thinking. And the handles have a very unfinished, unprofessional, and just not aesthetically pleasing look. In other words, I was just really not impressed with the pattern. And the instructions- even though I've made a purse before- were confusing (especially if one considers that this book is geared toward people even less experienced than me)- it says "sew the two notches together on all pieces"- but it doesn't tell you how to do this- handstitch?- just baste the two corners together?- machine sew?- with what seam allowance?? And then it tells you to "Iron flat"- which throws the reader off again-- how do you iron something flat that you just sewed a curve into?--isn't that SUPPOSED to be a curve?? As you can see, I was frustrated, and the results were not worth the effort. If I had to do this all over again, I would go for Lotta Jansdotter's sewing instruction book (can't remember the name), or just follow the tutorials on [...].
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