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Modern Prairie Sewing: 20 Handmade Projects for You & Your Friends Kindle Edition

by Abigail A. Long (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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Bring creativity to your home and wardrobe with 20 simple yet stylish projects—including bags, skirts, dresses, and quilts—in this beginner’s guide.

Gone are the days of confusing instructions and difficult patterns. With Abigail Long’s Modern Prairie Sewing, you'll discover that sewing can be fun and practical without being complicated. These 20 creative projects are designed to help you develop technical skills, including Abigail’s secret sewing tricks to guarantee success. Abigail also adds cute and clever design details you can add to raise your skill level even further. A box pleat or gusset may seem fancy and complicated, but with this illustrated guide, they are totally doable.

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For sewists who find themselves daydreaming about picnics and splashing through a creek this summer, Long’s book will scratch that yearning itch. Her first collection of 20 patterns are all presented in a cheerfully vintage, farm-girl style, for which her book title perfectly captures the mood. There are plenty of simple, approachable patterns, all aimed at women, focusing on bags, skirts, and a few home goods projects. Just a glance at the "It’s a Cinch" obi-style belt will have readers scrounging through their fabric for an Amy Butler print or two. A duo of two simple skirts, the Cakewalk and the Sunny Day Skirt, make use of bright, cheery prints and an elastic waistband. In general, everything should be achievable by sewists with basic skills and might provide a brief break for skilled sewists who want to whip out, say, a few kitchen towels for friends. The guidelines section, which serves as introduction, is very basic, and the diagrams and pattern pieces provided aren’t very detailed. But nothing requires much in the way of precise skills, making this a great summer sewing volume. Full-color photos, pattern pieces. (Publishers Weekly, June 2, 2014)

Written by a 20-something hands-on seamstress and crafter, the projects in this book are modern but with a nostalgic vibe. The projects are designed to develop technical skills; some have bonus details to further raise sewing skills. (American Sewing Guild Notions Magazine, Fall 2014)

Oh, just look at the cover! We can feel the wildflower-scented breeze as we are frolicking with these happy-go-lucky ladies, strolling the gorgeous prairie. For us Little House on the Prairie fans, this book evokes a feeling of contentment and playfulness. (And the great news is we can get our hot little hands on this historic charm without foregoing our mod cons, such as central heating!)Abigail Long's book features a fine chapter on sewing basics and some of her secrets. Subsequent chapters are filled with bag, clothing, and home projects. The photos are lovely, but for those of us who are - ahem - challenged by written-only instructions, there are detailed full-color diagrams, too.There are seven (!) bag patterns we can't wait to try with sweet girly names like Belle and KittyJo. The Maggie bag is nice and roomy, and features a fun, floppy flower. Clothing projects range from skirts to shirts to belts, and are perfect for a new garment sewist (not to mention they're breezy and very country-chic.) The Leeway Apron is sweet and simple, too. Definitely a book we want to stash in our log cabin! (Generation Q Magazine, November/December 2014)

About the Author

Abigail A. Long is a twenty-something, hands-on sewist and crafter. She has published several sewing tutorials for her family blog, mariemadelinestudio.typepad.com. Abigail lives in Seneca, Missouri.

Product details

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00KVPTMAI
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Stash Books (July 1, 2014)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 1, 2014
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 37678 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 283 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #1,689,062 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #949 in Quilts & Quilting (Kindle Store)
- #1,054 in Needlework (Kindle Store)
- #1,097 in Sewing (Kindle Store)

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Abigail A. Long is a 20-something excited seamstress who wants other women to love sewing and crafting like she does. She has been around sewing all her life and wants other people to experience the joy of making something fun & useful with their hands. When she's not making a mess with fabric in her family's Missouri home studio, she's making a yummy dessert. Abi loves to run through tall grass barefoot, hug family & friends, laugh, ride bikes, hold babies and ride rollercoasters. Abi is a Christian, and her faith is an important part of who she is; it has contributed to her family values and how she views the resources of the world.

She has written several sewing tutorials at www.mariemadelinestudio.typepad.com, including her popular messenger bag. She tries to blog regularly at www.themodernprairiegirl.blogspot.com, where you'll find beautiful pictures and easy tutorials.

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Sarah B

A Lover of Patchwork

Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2023

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I so delighted to finally receive this book.
I wasn't disappointed either. The Author Abigail Long has great projects, and easy to understand step-by-step instructions.
I only hope she writes another book!
I am very pleased with the quality of the book.
Thank you for sending it.

Reviewed in the United States on November 21, 2016

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What a lovely book filled with sewing inspiration!! I purchased this for my daughter and me to begin working on some sewing projects together. The photos are gorgeous and the pages are filled with sunshine!! So thrilled to have this book in our library to inspire us! Excellent work, Miss Abigail! Thank you for this lovely book, for your fun creativity, and for being a sister in the Lord. Blessings to you and your family!

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One of the best things about this book

Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2014

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This is such a lovely, inspirational book. The picture-packed layout makes for delightful, just-fun browsing while the clear instructions will help even the newest seamstress. One of the best things about this book? Abi's creations are useful AND pretty! Instead of cluttering your friends' shelves with your homemade knick-knacks, these projects will add a sweet punch of "happy" to daily activities--anywhere from dishes at the sink to shopping at the mall, there's a project for everyone.
Great job, Abi! Write another!

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KrysJ

I'm a little disappointed in the fact that there's a clearance sticker(actually 2) ...

Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2017

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Just received my book. I'm a little disappointed in the fact that there's a clearance sticker(actually 2) stuck to the book for $3 and I paid $9.71. Seems a bit odd.

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Erin

Fabulous projects for anyone who loves to sew!

Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2014

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This book is perfect for those who enjoy sewing but wouldn't consider themselves experts. The instructions are easy to follow and there are wonderful pictures to guide you all along the way. The projects are simple but so adorable! I know what my friends and family will be getting for Christmas this year...gifts I make using the projects in this book. ;-)

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Debi

Great sewing book

Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2019

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Cute ideas and some basic projects. I have really enjoyed this book.

Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2014

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I love this book. My fourteen year old daughter instantly claimed it and is getting ready to start on a skirt!. The pictures and style make it charming just to thumb through!

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Djangorose

Good patterns I will be making soon.

Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2019

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Just what I hoped for.

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