Stitch Kitsch: 44 Happy Sewing Projects from Home Décor to Accessories

By Jennifer Heynen

Put the fun back in sewing with little treasures to sew, embellish, and share! Popular fabric and pattern designer Jennifer Heynen invites you to choose your own sewing adventure with 44 playful projects that make perfect gifts. From pouches and pincushions to quilts and cheerful home decor, each of the 11 featured designs includes 3 happy variations. Turn a funky wallhanging into bull’s-eye pillows, a pom-pom trivet, or a lap quilt—the choice is yours! Choose your own sewing adventure, and then embellish projects with embroidery, buttons, trims, topstitching, and fusible appliqué (full-size patterns included)—until they are uniquely yours.

• Language: English
• Publisher: C&T Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Sep 14, 2015
• ISBN: 9781617450563

Reviews for Stitch Kitsch

[Laura Cowan · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

The pro, when it was new it might have been a good gift for a female who wanted to learn just enough sewing and craft to the very simple projects in the book, and little more.
The con, like too many other craft books, the directions ask too little of the reader. I think it’s a huge mistake to think that any book like this would be something a 100% sewing virgin would buy before any other, and therefore suggests that the likely reader would be someone who already has some level of skill or at least some confidence in being able to produce the finished projects as designed and possibly far better and wouldn’t mind at least one project (usually the last for the few publishers who do this) that is using multiple techniques, or significantly more complexity than the others. Even if it’s never within your reach to complete, it is I think a good idea to be optimistic about your readers ambition and potential.
The last negative is far more on the subjective than the first and factored in less to my rating this book 3 stars.
I think the production level is crap. The photography is middling at best, and the project models all look like they rush made the night before. Also I think the second those quilting prints were out of favor at JoAnns half the people who had bought this book promptly removed it from their shelves and put it in the donations box. Not all of them realized that was why they did it, but that last time they pulled it from the shelves to flip through it, none of the projects appealed anymore.
In conclusion I’m left a bit sad about it. It could have been something much better. The kind of book you share with friends and give copies as gifts to family.