By Amanda Blake Soule
ISBN-10: 0834821060
ISBN-13: 9780834821064
For plenty of people, our house is the heart of our existence. it's the position the place our households meet and mingle, the place we proportion our food and proportion our desires. a lot more than simply an area to live, our houses supply us a spot of convenience, nourishment, and love for us and for our youngsters.
In Handmade Home, Amanda Blake Soule, writer of The inventive Family and the weblog SouleMama.com, bargains easy stitching and craft tasks for the house that mirror the wishes, actions, and personalities of today’s households. As Amanda writes within the advent, “As a crafter, I’m regularly trying to find the subsequent factor i would like to make. As a mama, I’m regularly searching for the subsequent factor we need—to do, to have, to use—as a relations. the arriving jointly of those components is the place the guts of Handmade Home lies.”
Filled with thirty-three initiatives made through reusing and repurposing fabrics, all the goods right here supply a realistic use in the house. From picnic blankets made from repurposed mattress sheets to curtains made from classic handkerchiefs, those initiatives exhibit the feel of creating anything new out of whatever outdated that allows you to stay a extra financially pared-down and straightforward lifestyles; reduce our influence on this planet; connect with the prior and defend a extra conventional lifestyle; and position worth at the paintings of the arms. additionally incorporated are initiatives that youngsters can assist with, permitting them to make their very own certain contribution to the kin domestic.
More than simply a set of tasks for hand-crafted goods, this ebook deals the instruments to create a life—and home—full of attractiveness, integrity, and pleasure.
Projects include:
• Papa’s therapeutic comfortable: This sizzling water bottle disguise turns into an easy strategy to supply convenience to a ailing child
• child Sling: an easy trend for an item that gives lots to a small child—refuge from the area and a spot to put their head subsequent to a parent’s heart
• seashore Blanket To-Go: Repurpose previous sheets to create definitely the right picnic blanket for specified outside meals
• comfortable Wall wallet: an artistic resolution for storing a child’s small treasures
Pattern templates for Handmade Home
The trend templates for the initiatives during this ebook can be found the following to your comfort. click the undertaking identify lower than to obtain a PDF of the development template at genuine size.
Broadturn Bag
Millie’s scorching Pad
Papa’s therapeutic Cozy
Women’s Cloth
The kin Heart
Family Sweater Hats
Memory Tree duvet artwork