Slipcovers and Bedspreads (Slipcovers & Bedspreads) [Paperback]

Sunset Books (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 120 pages
• Publisher: Sunset Publishing Corporation (August 1984)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0376015136
• ISBN-13: 978-0376015136
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.2 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,044,673 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #46 in Books > Crafts, Hobbies & Home > Interior Design > Upholstery & Fabrics

More About the Author

Christine E. Barnes is an author, teacher, and contemporary quilter in love with color. Degrees in design and journalism segued into a writing career that has produced more than a dozen decorating, quilting, remodeling, and soft furnishings books. Her latest book, The Quilter's Color Club, presents a simple, can-do approach to using color in quilts, whether the reader is part of a mini-group, a quilting class, or working solo. Three color concepts--value, temperature, and intensity--are key to her strategy and make special effects like transparency and luminosity doable, even for beginners. No matter what their experience, Christine likes to tell students and readers that success with color is more about practice than talent!

Christine's work has been published in American Quilter, Threads, Quilter's Newsletter Magazine, For The Love of Quilting, and Fabrications, a British quilting magazine. She lives in Northern California's Gold Country. You can see her work at christinebarnes.com

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

34 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars stylish slipcovers, step by step, June 11, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Slipcovers and Bedspreads (Slipcovers & Bedspreads) (Paperback)

This is *the* book if you want to seriously recover furniture. These ain't throw slipcovers, that's for sure. Good instructions with lots of diagrams and details to help you make beautiful custom-fitted covers for most any upholstered furniture.

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Wait a minute..., January 8, 2002

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Rosa (United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Slipcovers and Bedspreads (Slipcovers & Bedspreads) (Paperback)

I ordered this book thinking that it's many illustrations would make things "simple." But let me tell you, if you do not consider yourself an avid sewer and very familiar with your sewing machine, don't even consider getting this book. It will drive you insane. It's definitely written for people who have a very good understanding beyond "just the basics."

One reason this book is difficult to follow is that it focuses on VERY tailored covers. Not the kind you find at SureFit or the local linen store. The designs require measurements of your furniture piece from every conceivable angle.

If you love measuring and working out mathmatical formulations for hours...get this book. If not, look somewhere else.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Slipcovers and Bedspreads, September 21, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Slipcovers and Bedspreads (Slipcovers & Bedspreads) (Paperback)

I am so pleased to see a book that demands proper measurements and all the specific instructions on any project you intend to do. This should ensure your labor's not to be in vain. If I'm doing the work, I plan for the sewing to be perfect.