Bags and Accessories With Style [Paperback]

Stephanie Kimura (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 15, 2005

Following on the heels of the widely popular Bags With Style, this book opens up the author's unique contemporary style to much more than just bags. Readers will create 30 projects, some in coordinated sets, all in fabulous modern styles. A multitude of gorgeous purses, belts, detachable collars, shawls, hats and scarves, can be made using the step-by-step instructions for working with fabric and adding embellishments, and gives tips for making the projects faster. Sewers of any skill level can create these flirtatious and fun designs quickly and easily.

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About the Author

Stephanie Masae Kimura's most recent and popular KP Publications book, Bags With Style, is now in its second printing. She currently teaches and shares her talent for creating dazzling oriental-style fashion skills at local organisations and festivals.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Krause Publications (May 15, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0873499115
• ISBN-13: 978-0873499118
• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #853,272 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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28 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Improving on Excellence!, September 21, 2005

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This review is from: Bags and Accessories With Style (Paperback)

Could a follow-up book possibly be just as good--if not better--than the original? Author Stephanie Kimura proves it can in her wonderful follow-up to the hugely successful Bags with Style. In this book, Stephanie goes beyond just bags and adds instruction on how to create some of the most fashionable accessories that are staples to any stylish woman's wardrobe. Yes, there are mostly bags, but you'll also learn how to create shrugs, shawls, belts, collars, cell phone carriers and even a romantic stole! Beginners and advanced sewers alike will revel in the 27 projects from the casual to the exquisite. Success is inevitable when you couple the full-size patterns (we're talking pattern company quality patterns) with 200 fabulous photos and 65 helpful how-to illustrations. As Stephanie puts it, this book "is for talented and creative women like you." When you put it like that, how can you possibly resist?!

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The first was better ..., March 21, 2006

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Bunj "roobooks" (New Jersey) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bags and Accessories With Style (Paperback)

I purchased this book after buying Ms. Kimura's first, "Bags With Style". Though this has more fun ideas, the same great construction and fabric chapters, and easy to use instructions, I just did not find it quite as inspirational as her first. Patterns are included and the instructions are clear and concise. The accessories did not wow me and some of the bag designs seemed a bit redundant. There are some fun ones in here, especially the one on the cover! Still a good book but I would recommend her first more.

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My review for Bags/Accessories w/Style, September 16, 2005

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Sherri A. Maxwell "Just Junque" (Marlow, Oklahoma) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bags and Accessories With Style (Paperback)

This book was exactly what I was looking for. I used it for belts the first day I received it. The purses/bags are my next projects. I highly recommend for crafters with a little flair to their style.