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Amy Butler's Style Stitches

12 Easy Ways to 26 Wonderful Bags

9780811866699

Chronicle Books
Available: 08/11/10
9 x 9.25 · 184 pages
Ages 18 years and up
9780811866699
CDN $42.95 · cl

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Amy Butler

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.

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.