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Brilliant Bags: 20 Beautiful Bags to Stitch and Love

About.com Rating four out of Five

By Sherri Osborn, About.com

The Bottom Line

Who wouldn't want a fashionable or fun bag to go with every outfit or fit any occasion? With 20 unique purse projects to make, this book gives you that opportunity! You can use a variety of materials and embellishment ideas, and then mix and match the ideas and make even more bags.
Pros
  • Stylish Purses
  • A variety of styles offered
  • Creative embellishment ideas
Cons
  • None

Description

  • Softcover book with 128 jam-packed pages.
  • Easy to understand directions and helpful colored illistrations and photos.
  • Directions to help you make 20 styles of bags.

Guide Review - Brilliant Bags: 20 Beautiful Bags to Stitch and Love

The bag projects offered in this book are so unique and fun that you may have a hard time trying to figure out which bag to make first. This book not only offers a variety of unique bag styles, it also takes more traditional bags, such as a diaper bag or drawstring bag, and adds interesting and sometimes funky twists. You can make bags for yourself or to give as gifts; you can make bags for shopping, elegant evenings out, the beach, traveling, and much more.

This book teaches you how to make bags using cottons, felt, scarves, and scraps of other fabric; and it shows you how to finish your purses using beads, ribbon, sequins, buttons, silk flowers, and other embellishment items. While this book offers 20 different bags you can make, you can easily mix and match fabric ideas and embellishment suggestions to create even more variety.

Most of the purses and totes in this book can be made and enjoyed by all ages. All can be personalized and embellished to fit any personality or fashion style.

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