Customer Reviews

Sew What You Love: The Easiest, Prettiest Projects Ever

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Sew What You Love has a wonderful, romantic feel to it and is just a beautifully made book. I've sewn my whole life and the patterns often came with confusing or complex instructions that I had a hard time deciphering. I really appreciated the clear wording and illustrations in Sew What You Love, all of which made perfect sense and enabled me to easily understand them.

The main thing that I noticed about Sew What You Love is that all of the sewing creations look like they came from a high end shop, rather than being "homemade". Tanya's fresh and gorgeous fabrics from her own line at Grand Revival Design certainly helped with that, but also the clean lines and beautiful style of each of the projects made them into something that anyone would be proud to wear or have in their home.

Sew What You Love has four chapters of lovely suggestions: Handmade Handbags, Sewing for Little Ones, Home Style, and Personal Style. All of the creations are quite simple and even beginners could accomplish them. It also comes with full size patterns in a rose covered pouch in the back of the book, so you can get started sewing right away! I just loved the delightful Ruffled Skirt for little ones and the La Dolce Vita Peasant blouse for teens, in addition to pincushions, apron, quilts, purses, baby toys and more.

Sew What You Love really made me motivated to get out my sewing machine with all of its simple, yet beautiful ideas. I know I'll be using it for many years to come!

The author does a fantastic job outlining projects in this book. The instructions are very clear and the patterns included are fantastic. I really loved the bags and sewing for yourself sections of this book. I gave it three stars because I felt that a large portion of this book was devoted to clothing for little girls and baby toys. Those of us with older children end up with a lot of projects that will never be attempted. Great for someone with a baby or toddler girl, those of us with boys are kinda left out though.

I really love this book. Beautiful photography, easy to understand directions and listing of all the supplies you will need. Lovely author, you can tell through the book that she enjoys sharing her projects and wants the reader to get as much enjoyment out of it as she does.

I am not a great sewer but feel that all the projects are with in my ablity and some will push me to become better.

I received my copy of "sew what you love" today & could not be happier! I have always wanted to create things like fabric boxes & quilts, but never had the know-how. Now with Tanya's book I will be able to make those & so much more! Very excited to try out all the patterns for the home, my daughter & myself! I bought this book on a chance ( knowing nothing about the author..) and I am so thankful I did! I am now a life long fan of Tanya's work! You can't go wrong in buying this book! ( just a side note: I consider myself a intermediate sewer at best, so if I can use these patters, so can you! :o)

Being a big fan of Tanya Whelan's fabric designs, I've been eagerly awaiting the release of this book. It did not disappoint. The patterns are charming and easy to follow. I particularly love the pages on how to use elastic thread for modern day shirring. Although I enjoy the look, I've been intimidated by using elastic thread. Her step-by-step instructions and suggestions for easy shirring projects have given me the confidence to dive on in.

Although a totally appropriate book for a novice, I think even experienced sewers would get enjoyment out of it.

Tanya has amazing style and the projects are so fun and relevant. I've been sewing since age 10 and have bought lots of sewing books and this is quite possibly my favorite. The instructions and photographs make it feel like tanya is with you as you create and many of the projects are doable for beginners/+ and really interesting if you are beyond/well beyond that stage. If you like to sew or are just thinking of picking up a new hobby, buy this book and you will be a life-long sewer. Brava, Tanya!

I love Tanya Whelan. I fell in love with her fabrics and they remain my favorite patterns and I'm guilty of hoarding them so I was so excited to see a book of her charming designs coming out. I received it today with much fanfare and almost assault of the UPS man. I opened the book with bated breath.

The bags are lovely and instructions very clear and gentle coaching through the scarier steps. Then I excitedly get to the clothes which is honestly the part I was most anticipating having seen the illustrations in the Amazon preview BUT the patterns only go up to a size 14. So sad. I understand that only so many sizes can be covered but I really was hoping I could make something I could wear. Oh well, I guess that just another incentive to try to learn how to either enlarge patterns or stop having babies and lose a few inches.

I may give the Go-To top/ dress a shot and SEE if it might fit. Maybe in a knit? I still love you Tanya and look forward to making the other super cute projects like the soft shade for my vintage laundry room door window. This book really is like my Pinterest board in hardback spiral bound.

Wonderful, Beautiful Book!!!!!!!! This book is beautiful and well written. The patterns and directions are easy to understand. The illustrations are simply breathtaking and bring Spring into you home in this dismal Winter weather. I would recommend this book to anyone whether you are an accomplished sewer or a beginner. There are several projects here so that you get several patterns for several occasions in one spot. The fabric used in the projects is also readily available if not in a fabric store near you, it is available in several wonderful online fabric stores. I also recommend the fabric that is used in the projects. I highly recommend it and would purchase two - one for yourself and one for a gift!!!!!

This book has some great sewing projects! Many I want to try my hand at. I've tried 2 so far and one was easy to follow the directions, the other could have used more pictures to describe it. As a seasoned sewer, I had some difficulty following the pattern and ended up finishing the project in my own way. Not that it's a bad thing, because it turned out great! Would recommend this to anyone who enjoys sewing and wants a variety of small projects all in one book.

I loved that this book had projects that were simple enough to sew in a day, but then there are a few more complex patterns that turn out beautifully! I bought this because of her bag patterns, I had purchased a few of her single patterns before and loved them.