Customer Reviews:
 DIY Fun March 24, 2008
this has a ton of ideas in it. Though most of the styles are ment for really skinny girls. I suppose if you had the gumption you could alter them for the normal to full figured gals.
 Some good ideas but more for teenagers February 10, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have been making t-shirt quilts and recently was making tank tops out of t-shirts but using regular patterns. I really wanted this book so that I could make other things. However I am no longer a teenager so I wouldn't (and couldn't wear) almost everything in this book. I think that my tank tops using patterns came out better. This book gave me a few new ideas. I probably won't actually make anything out of it, but it may be a good book for a beginner.
 Cut for Couture February 8, 2008
As a designer I used to snub my nose up at casual clothes and especially T shirts.
This book helped me rethink this completely. By combining my design concepts to go along with T shirt knit, it allowed me to experiment with concepts I never would have tried while cutting into silk.
It gave me freedom as a designer I never thought was possible.
Inspiring, but do you really need it? January 23, 2008
3 out of 8 found this review helpful
"Generation T" is a very cool book in theory. I love t-shirts and have a huge collection of them, and when my copy of this book arrived, I spent a whole afternoon flipping through it, imagining what I could do with them. Then, after I came down from my little cloud, it occurred to me, I'm not going to cut up any of my t-shirt that I love, and if I dislike a t-shirt enough to chop it up, I probably don't like it enough to transform it. As a result, this book has sat on my bookshelf, unused, ever since.
The patterns in this book are simple and straight forward. Most require only a minimum amount of sewing, if any, and could be made by a novice. The patterns fall into three categories: tops (tube tops, tank tops and slashed t-shirts), skirts (lots of a-line skirts, most of which look like you've got a t-shirt tied around your waist), and accessories (cushions, a scarf, a blanket, an iPod cozy, leg warmers, bags etc). Whether you like these or not will depend on your own personal taste. However, the thing is, even if you do like these items enough to want to make them, you probably don't need this book to tell you how to do so. It doesn't take a genius to figure out how to turn a t-shirt into a cushion, for example.
This book is worth reading for inspiration if you find it cheap or in the library, but other than that, I wouldn't bother.
fun book! January 20, 2008
I bought this book for my 15 yr old daughter for Christmas at her request. She loves it!! She has made some adorable shirts, her friends are jealous! I plan on making a few too. This book would make an easy jumping off point for your own ideas. Lots of fun!
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