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| Buckles & Bobbins - A Beginning Sewing Book For Boys! By JoAnn Gagnon & Corrie Gagnon $19.95 |
| Learn to Sew! From plugging in the sewing machine to creating a pair of pajamas, Buckles and Bobbins guides the novice tailor with clear, step-by-step instructions. Sixteen projects, complete with patterns, are useful items you will be proud to use, wear, or give. Pillowcases, potholders, duffle bags, blankets, vests: each project focuses on mastering specific techniques, and builds upon skills learned. Special techniques beyond the basics ensure that the final creation will be as professionally constructed as it was fun to make. Book Review for Buckles and Bobbins: A quick history lesson: knitting did not used to be the province of little old ladies in rocking chairs. Shepherds - many of whom were tough, muscular, men - knitted and crocheted to fill in the many hours of watching sheep chew. The lesson? Real men knit, crochet, and sew. Yes, real men sew, which means that real boys sew, which means that Buckles and Bobbins: A Beginning Sewing Book for Boys is the resource of choice for 9 to 15 year old males who want to develop a skill beyond replacing a button on a favorite jacket. Authors JoAnn Gagnon and Corrie Gagnon, vetern sewers with 50 years of stitching, ripping, restitching, designing, altering and tailoring between them, have put together 16 projects that even Tom Sawyer would be proud to admit that he had made. Arranged according to difficulty, the projects begin with pilowcases, laundry bags, and book covers; progress to a bound fleece blanket and roll-up wrench case; and culminate with a backpack, cargo pants and multi-pocketed, reversible zipped sports vests that can be customized for fishing, hunting, hiking, or just walking around and looking like a man. Step by step instructions, copious line drawings, and full-size patterns ensure that the journey from novice to tailor is a smooth one, and one that can be accomplished whether or not the boy's parents can sew. Because each project builds upon skills learned in the one before it, sewers pick up new techniques while perfecting old ones By the end of the book, a boy is not only sleeping in pajamas of his own making, but also knows how to install a zipper, line a vest, put in a facing, understitch a seam, craft an elastic waist band, bias tape a raw edge - in short, he is far beyond the replacing-a-fallen-off-button stage. Sewing requires precision, accuracy, craftmanship, imagination, and time - essentially the same attributes necessary to build a house or repair a car. Buckles and Bobbins enables today's male to construct wearable clothing and repair what's hanging in his closet (or lying on the floor), developing a skill that increases self-sufficiency and enhances the independent spirit. Now what could be more masculine than that? |
| Instruction Pages: The Sewing Machine Sewing Supplies About Your Fabric Patterns Pinning Pattern Layout & Cutting Let's Begin to Sew Stitching on Fabric Rules for Sewing Projects Quilting Hand Sewing Bias Tape Curves and Clipping Topstitching Applying A Facing Install An Exposed Zipper Make Pockets Meet the Authors and Illustrator |
| Projects: #1 Bible or Book Cover #2 Laundry Bag #3 Cabin Potholder #4 Strip Quilt Pillow #5 Patchwork Quilt #6 Work Apron #7 Bound Fleece Blanket #8 End Wrench Roll-Up Case #9 Pajama Bottoms or Shorts #10 Pajama Top #11 Duffel Bag #12 Bike Bag or Toiletry Bag #13 Lined Sportsman's Vest #14 Cargo Pants #15 Back Pack |
| Life Skills: Sew On A Button Mend A Hole Or Rip Iron A Shirt |
| Sewing requires precision, accuracy, craftmanship, imagination, and time - essentially the same attributes necessary to build a house or repair a car. |
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| Buckles & Bobbins patterns for 18" dolls Plan on taking your doll with you to your next pajama party or campout, dressed in outfits that you have made yourself and that match your own. Buckles & Bobbins 18" doll patterns include fifteen projects that coordinate with the projects in the book. These include a pillowcase, laundry bag, reversible vest, bound blanket, patchwork quilt, duffel bag, work apron, long pajamas, cargo pants, short pajamas, backpack, shorts, shirt, slippers and pants! #PAT-BBD $8.95 |
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