Sew Eco

Sustainable materials projects?have come a long way from scratchy hemp skirts and brown patchwork aprons and?Sew Eco?is a unique how-to book which guides a whole new generation of savvy crafters in making beautiful wardrobe and home furnishing creations from unusual eco-friendly recycled or vintage fabrics.?

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The book features?a series of stylish projects with a focus on both how to source and use sustainable fabrics and teaches readers many?different aspects of sewing.

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Projects include amazing transformations such as making cushions, skirts, scarves, shawls?and handbags?from recycled shirts, old sweaters, vintage buttons, vintage lace, peace silk, organic fabrics?and other materials, using leather applique and even "upcycling" an old suede skirt or hat into something truly creative and utterly?fantastic.

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Ruth Singer is a textile designer-maker who works exclusively with eco-friendly, recycled and natural fabrics. Ruth has also worked in museum education, most recently in adult education at the Victoria & Albert Museum in Great Britain. She has published many projects in books and magazines including The Guardian Guide to Craft and in Black Dog Publishing Making Stuff: An Alternative Craft Book and several Lark Books publications. Her first solo book Sew It Up, a modern manual of practical and decorative sewing, was published in 2009. Ruth's work can be seen at www.ruthsinger.co.uk.