Celebrated designer Amy Butler's most coveted products are her handbag sewing patterns. In Style Stitches, Butler presents an array of new bag designs for her fans across the globe. The book offers 12 basic patterns with enough variations to achieve 26 unique looks. Ranging from chic clutches and delicate wristlets to pretty hobo bags and handy coin purses, with instructions for altering dimensions, straps, and embellishments to get the desired look, each project incorporates Butler's fresh, modern style and attention to detail. With illustrated step-by-step directions, a comprehensive techniques section, and a bound-in pocket filled with the patterns themselves, Style Stitches is an essential and fashionable addition to every sewer's library.
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Amy Butler designs fabrics, home accessories, sewing patterns, and stationery goods. The author of Little Stitches for Little Ones and In Stitches, she works from Granville, Ohio, and distributes her products globally.
David Butler is a photographer and founder of Art of the Midwest, a multidisciplinary design studio in Granville, Ohio.
David Butler is a photographer and founder of Art of the Midwest, a multidisciplinary design studio in Granville, Ohio.
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"Utility can be beautiful. Comfy can be stylish. Organization is healthy. Handmade is best!" --Amy ButlerAmy Butler is an artist/designer who has become well-known for her lavish and sophisticated take on vintage-modern fabrics. She designs and globally distributes multiple fabric lines, stationery, sewing patterns, handbags, home décor accessories, and scrapbook materials. Her work has been seen in various books, magazines, and television shows. She also designs fabrics for licensed manufacturers in the U.S., U.K., and Japan. Amy has produced and written lifestyle and décor stories for Country Living Magazine since 1998. She co-manages Art of the Midwest Studio in central Ohio.
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179 of 183 people found the following review helpful
By Jessie T.
Format:Hardcover-spiral
Amy Butler's Style Stitches is full of lovely pictures of bags in her gorgeous fabrics and contains full-size patterns with instructions to make the bags. Be aware that when the subtitle says "12 Easy Ways to 26 Wonderful Bags," it means that there are 12 different styles of bags with variations to make 26 bags. However, these variations are, more often than not, simply an extension of the straps to go from handbag to shoulder bag. The variations are NOT going to give you 26 different-looking bags.
As with any sewing book, it depends on your expectations and how much you like the look of the projects as to whether you feel you've gotten your money from it. I feel that any sewer would like at least 3 of these bags well enough to want to make them, so that puts them at approximately $6 per pattern - cheaper than what you'll pay for single Amy Butler patterns.
None of these patterns are exact ones you've seen before from Amy, though a handful are styles you've seen somewhere. The Take Flight Handbag, for instance, looks like a smaller Weekender Bag. A definite asset, in my opinion. The book features a shopper's bag (tote), "Origami Bag Set" - various sized smaller zippered bags (i.e. cosmetic-type bags), a checkbook cover, clutch, coin purse, wristlet, the aforementioned travel/flight bag, and five shoulder/handbags.
This is a gorgeous book and one that I'm happy to own. I admit, that I was a little disappointed when I looked through it the first time - largely because I had misunderstood the subtitle and thought I'd be getting more patterns - but now that I've spent a little more time examining it and the patterns therein, I've got three solid patterns on my radar and am eager to get started.
As with any sewing book, it depends on your expectations and how much you like the look of the projects as to whether you feel you've gotten your money from it. I feel that any sewer would like at least 3 of these bags well enough to want to make them, so that puts them at approximately $6 per pattern - cheaper than what you'll pay for single Amy Butler patterns.
None of these patterns are exact ones you've seen before from Amy, though a handful are styles you've seen somewhere. The Take Flight Handbag, for instance, looks like a smaller Weekender Bag. A definite asset, in my opinion. The book features a shopper's bag (tote), "Origami Bag Set" - various sized smaller zippered bags (i.e. cosmetic-type bags), a checkbook cover, clutch, coin purse, wristlet, the aforementioned travel/flight bag, and five shoulder/handbags.
This is a gorgeous book and one that I'm happy to own. I admit, that I was a little disappointed when I looked through it the first time - largely because I had misunderstood the subtitle and thought I'd be getting more patterns - but now that I've spent a little more time examining it and the patterns therein, I've got three solid patterns on my radar and am eager to get started.
112 of 114 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover-spiral
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You will need sewing skills for this book, not a beginner's book. Most of the bags are "intermediate" to "experienced" level, with only 3 being "easy".
If you are a fan of Amy Butler, then you will like this book - I did!
XOXO-
If you are a fan of Amy Butler, then you will like this book - I did!
XOXO-
78 of 83 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover-spiral
I think Amy B. has been spending too much time looking at what other people have been doing in the handmade handbag category because so many of the designs and embellishments are knock offs from other designs out there (the accordian fold purse, the vintage brooch embellishment, the lady bug purse, the wallet, even the signature multiple colored zipper image which Purl Soho has been using in their ads for years). The "origami" minis don't even need a pattern, and many of the pattern"s" are larger vs. smaller versions of a single design. I am giving this book a 3 star rating for the two designs in there that I thought were up to what we would expect from Amy Butler. I also only give the book a 3 star because the instructions are not user friendly.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great bags
The different bags are all fun and creative to make, I can't wait to get to work on the next one! The photos are really nicely done also.
Published 3 days ago by Ms. Jean L. Lubrano
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great book
I have made only 1 bag from this book and it took no time. I am planning on doing another if time permits
Published 3 days ago by Alysha E. Wilson
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Value
I love making purses and had discovered Amy Butler's patterns before I saw the book. I am now make purses for gifts for family and they love them.
Published 13 days ago by Dawn Finch Wright
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Book - thank you Amy
Love the book - many great purse/tote patterns and great how to do it tips! I've made three already for special gifts for friends.
Published 13 days ago by Lynn Gordon
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great inspiration!
First, I have to say I LOVE Amy Butler! My problem is that I have a really hard time with her patterns. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Monica
4.0 out of 5 stars
Amy Butler's Style Stitches
I received the pattern book in a timely manner. All of the bags look wonderful and I am excited to make the Cosmo for my daughter-in law so she can use as a fancy diaper bag-type... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Melony B
5.0 out of 5 stars
Increddible patterns
This book has increddible patterns, it is a challange to work with them, very good for starting to make bags.
Thanks
Thanks
Published 1 month ago by Andres Melendro
5.0 out of 5 stars
Sewing
This was a gift and was sent to a friend...It looked like fun and was pleased with the gift. Thank you.
Published 3 months ago by Deb Bowen
3.0 out of 5 stars
Bag Book
Bought as Christmas gifts....looked through it and saw a couple of things I might make but in no hurry to do so
Published 3 months ago by Margaret
3.0 out of 5 stars
It's a shame!
I love Amy's Butler fabrics and patterns, but unfortunately for me this book was missing the Origami Bag Set project and The Beautiful Balance Checkbook Cover patterns.
Published 3 months ago by Juliana Mendoza
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