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 enlarge | Author: Amy Karol
Publisher: Potter Craft
Category: Book
List Price: $21.95
Buy New: $13.52
You Save: $8.43 (38%)
New (41) Used (9) from $13.48
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
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: All products brand new. Exactly as Shown at Amazon.com
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 Bend the Rules Sucking more like it. September 13, 2008
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
Okay, it's one thing to bend the rules a little when sewing, it is another to make a bunch of craft projects that look like my five year old made them. This book was worthless, and I am a beginner sewer, so it should have been perfect for me. This book makes me wonder just how easy it is to get a book published. I know nothing about deep sea diving, but maybe I could write a book on it. :)
 Sewing by the rules August 25, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Bend-the-Rules Sewing: The Essential Guide to a Whole New Way to Sew This book is not so much about sewing as it is about embellishing your sewing projects. A new sewer must learn some basic rules and can then branch out into creative endeavors. I found the ideas presented to be interesting, but not such a good place for beginner sewers to start.
Bend-The-Rules Sewing July 7, 2008
1 out of 10 found this review helpful
This is the best beginning sewing book I've seen so far. The projects are creative, fun and wonderfully illustrated with great photos.
Great pictures, cute ideas, but for beginners July 7, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is great for a beginner sewer but for people who are more advanced should pass this book up. The projects range from simple to complex, but in reference to a beginner. There are also many projects for children and babies which was no use to me because I have none. Although I am an advanced seamstress I can play off of these ideas to make a more complex project.
 Really enjoy Amy's blog. Book leaves a lot to be desired. July 6, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
To the people who have said this is generally not a book for beginners, I have to agree. Problems lie in Amy's line drawings, which are often difficult to understand, the lack of info on yardage to purchase, the use of flannel instead of conventional interfacing (unless you want everything soft and floppy), the need to enlarge and tape the patterns, and the paucity of directions on how to do things like miter corners and properly match notches. Another issue is that the photography is quite nice, but often ineffective. Look at the project picture for the place mats, and you'll see what I mean. Not only are we told to miter corners w/o being given clear instructions, but we can't even see how Amy's done it in the picture, because the sides are cut off (it's also "artistically" blurry). It can't always be style over substance.
Now that I've worked my first project from this book, it might just be my last.
I use and enjoy Diana Rupp's Sew Everything Workshop much more.
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