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Sew It Book -- Instructions for Making Vintage Childrens Toys, Clothes and Accessories
by Rachel Taft Dixon

{softcover, 50 pages, 8.25x11, 2009, ISBN: 1934268984}

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Originally published in 1929, the Sew-It Book is a charming book filled with children's and beginner sewer craft projects -- projects perfect for your child or grandchild (or to do with your child or grandchild). Projects include:

- child's apron
- mother's apron
- bag for marbles, buttons or other small objects
- tie-dyed seat cover
- towels with cross stitch letters and designs
- "button boy" bib
- raffia embroidered purse
- tie-dyed luncheon set
- doll's luncheon set
- luncheon set for mother
- tie-dyed handkerchiefs
- rag doll
- doll dress
- cross stitch baby bib
- doll sunbonnet
- tie-dyed child's coolie coat
- child's smock
- cross stitch sampler

Very detailed instructions, patterns and illustrations are provided for each project. In addition, the book teaches easy tie-dying steps, provides full cross stitch charts, and illustrates hand sewing stitches. This book is perfect for making handmade gifts with a vintage flair or for beginning sewers wanting to learn to hand sew and create cute, useful toys and household items.