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    Sewing the Seasons: 23 Projects to Celebrate the Seasons
    Sewing the Seasons: 23 Projects to Celebrate the Seasons
    Sewing the Seasons: 23 Projects to Celebrate the Seasons
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    Sewing the Seasons: 23 Projects to Celebrate the Seasons

    By Sandi Henderson

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    23 seasonal sewing and craft projects

    Sandi Henderson's readers love her look, her patterns, and her descriptions of home, family life, and holidays. Her fans respond equally enthusiastically to her anecdotes of picking cherries with her family as they do to her new fabric collections or her recipe for Creme Brulee French toast. This brand-new offering gives readers the best of what they crave from Sandi—and builds on the excitement of both her first book and her work as a fabric designer.

    Sewing the Seasons is a collection of 23 sewing patterns for adult and children's wear, home decor, and accessories, all beautifully paired with the ideal season for use. From a vintage cloche to a scallop scarf, from a farmers' market tote to a poinsettia stocking, the sewing and craft projects presented here celebrate the best of nature's seasons and the holidays. In addition to gorgeous project to sew, Sandi offers up her favorite recipes for each season and beautiful photography that captures the essence of each passing season.

    • Complemented with full-color photos and a beautiful interior design
    • Full patterns are conveniently located online, where they can be printed as needed and will never be lost
    • Sandi offers up the best of the season around her with gorgeous lifestyle photos of her and her family as they celebrate the seasons, seasonally appropriate favorite recipes, and anecdotes
    • Includes low-sew/no-sew crafts that add a special sparkle to each season

    Beginning to intermediate seamstresses and fans of Sandi's fabric and pattern lines will be drawn to this year-round collection of patterns, recipes, and inspiration.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTurner Publishing Company
    Release dateMar 25, 2013
    ISBN9781118261538
    Sewing the Seasons: 23 Projects to Celebrate the Seasons

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      Sewing the Seasons - Sandi Henderson

      Seasons Change

      I thrive on the changing of seasons. I am lucky to live in a place where we experience the full four seasons. Each season is not just a measure of time, but a tangible clock by which we share experiences that forever shape our memories. With every birthday, holiday, and anniversary, I find that my sewing projects change with the seasons as well, which is how the idea of a seasonal sewing book came to be. I love looking at a year in review, seeing everything we’ve done together as a family, from planting a garden to baking cookies.

      When I started planning content for this book, I knew that I had to include recipes. I am thrilled to share some of my favorites and encourage you to tweak the recipes to fit your family’s likes and tastes. For my family, food is a huge part of the change of seasons. We do not eat the same thing year-round. There is such a push in our culture to make everything available at any time, which to a certain extent we have achieved through scientific means and harvests from far-away countries. Since I am a self-proclaimed foodie, I don’t care to partake in availability of un-fresh food. We do not eat fresh tomatoes in January. Rather, we prefer to pull out a jar of spaghetti sauce that we prepared in August with truly fresh tomatoes. Basil doesn’t touch my mouth unless I picked it myself or bought it at the farmers market. In the winter, I turn to dried herbs. The taste and nutrition of fresh ingredients cannot be forced. How would you feel if you were halfway through a quilt—enjoying the process of creating—and then completion was demanded right now! I think our food probably is the same way, and you won’t have beautiful food unless you allow it to finish growing in its own good time.

      When I think of the seasons, spring is always first. Bursting with new life, spring has allowed my family to witness the birth of new fawns in our Montana backyard. We have enjoyed the sights and smells of the cherry blossoms in Washington, D.C. We jump for joy when the tulips and daffodils start to creep up with the warming of the ground. We start clearing our yards and gardens after the slumber of winter. When Easter arrives, I sew dresses for the girls and ties for the boys. We dye eggs, eat candy, and celebrate the holiday. We plan out the garden, seeds start showing up in the stores, and when we walk outside, the smell of freshly mown grass greets us. I like to incorporate fresh cheese, warm bread, and produce from the earliest farmers market as well as my own garden into our diet throughout spring.

      Summer arrives with a breath of warm air on our skin. School lets out, the pools open, and sunscreen is constantly on the counter. Our garden starts to take shape, and we gradually begin to harvest lettuce and sweet peas. There isn’t a lot that I find more satisfying than eating fresh food harvested from my own garden. Summer rolls on and the ice cream truck starts making its rounds on our street. Kids (and parents) run around the house searching frantically for a spare dollar. The cherries, raspberries, and peaches ripen, and we begin making jam to last us throughout the coming year. Watermelon, strawberries, fresh salads, and barbeques take us through summer.

      Fall comes on gradually, with the first crisp mornings usually taking me a bit by surprise. The cool air brings with it a gentle urging to start tidying up and setting things in order for winter. The garden is putting out its last harvest, and the orchards are full to the brim with fruit that has spent the summer maturing. Pumpkins that have been green all summer slowly start to turn orange. Leaves start changing colors, creating an autumnal rainbow. We begin layering our clothing and pulling sweaters out of storage. Quilts that are lying on the sewing table unfinished due to summer heat start to make their way to the top of the To Do list. For those who celebrate Halloween, costumes are gathered, planned out, or sewn. There is a whir of excitement in the air as children and adults decide what to dress up as and then count down the days to trick-or-treating. Wassail, apple pie, pumpkin pie, turkey, and cranberries fill the kitchen.

      Regardless of what the calendar says, I view the start of winter as the day after Thanksgiving. Up until that point, the focus is on Thanksgiving, harvest, fall. But the day after Thanksgiving, we throw ourselves into the festivities of the winter season. We enjoy drinking cocoa, sledding, making marshmallows, and making plans for Christmas. It is a beautiful season! It’s a season of giving and service and spending time in front of a fireplace playing board games with loved ones. We try to make the most of our holiday gifts, to truly teach the meaning of gift-giving to our children. We subscribe to the less is more philosophy when it comes to gifts at the holidays, which makes it much easier to tackle making the most of them.

      Spring

      Rain or Shine Umbrella

      Patchwork Easter Dress

      Two Sizes Tie

      Wind Rider Kite

      Peeka Bloomers

      Vintage Cloche

      Petticoat Sass

      Mandarin Orange Almond Salad

      Cucumber, Basil, and Heirloom Tomato Salad

      Umbrella

      Rain or Shine Umbrella

      One Saturday afternoon, I was strolling around a garage sale and found two rather ugly umbrellas. I had wanted to recover an umbrella for a long time and since both were marked at $1 each, how could I pass them up? One was vintage, with metal spokes, and the other was new, with a mostly plastic interior. I took them home and took them both apart. I found that the construction was almost identical on both and went to work recovering them. It worked perfectly!

      Supplies

      Laminated cotton (The amount of fabric you’ll need depends on the umbrella you are covering, how many different colors or prints you’ll want to use, and the print on the fabric. For a general guideline, I found a 30 collapsible umbrella took 1 yard of 56-wide laminated cotton fabric. If you are going to fussy-cut your fabric, you may need more fabric.)

      1 old umbrella

      Needle and quilting or upholstery thread

      Prep

      The seam allowance is ¼" unless otherwise noted.

      1 The diagram below shows what I have found to be the standard construction for umbrellas whether vintage or new. There is a screw-on cap at the top of the umbrella. Remove the cap and carefully cut away the fabric cover.

      2 To make a pattern piece specifically for your umbrella, you can either disassemble the old cover until you have a single panel or pin a sheet of paper over the old cover and cut to size, giving yourself a ¼" seam allowance. Make note of the size of the center hole at the top of your old umbrella cover. When you have finished sewing your new cover, you will want to end up with a hole the same size. Note how many panels you’ll need to create the umbrella cover. See Step 1 in the instructions that follow.

      3 When cutting your triangles, allow a ¼" seam allowance on each side. See Step 5 below to determine how much extra length to cut for your hem.

      Working with Laminated Cottons

      • Don’t worry about prewashing your laminated cottons; they don’t need it.

      • Most sewing machines have no difficulties feeding the laminate through, with the laminate right side down against the feed dogs of the machine. However, some machines have difficulty moving the laminated cotton through with the laminate side face up to the needle (in the case of topstitching or edgestitching). This can be helped greatly by using a specific presser foot made for this purpose or even easier, by laying a sheet of tissue paper over the laminate while you are sewing. Tear the tissue paper away after you have completed your finishing stitching on the right side of the laminate.

      • Laminated cottons don’t fray when cut, which expands your finishing stitch options for your seam allowances. (This is so fantastic!) I prefer to serge the inside seam allowance that is going to be seen, but you could also use a French seam or simply trim the inside seam allowance to 1/8" and not have to worry about fraying. I serged the bottom edge of my umbrella with a rolled hem.

      Create the Umbrella Covers

      1 Cut out the triangle shapes needed to make the cover (usually 8 panels).

      Note: Depending on the size of your umbrella, it might be a tight squeeze. You can plan ahead by testing a few layouts with multiple sections from the umbrella for best placement. If your fabric repeat is not directional, try turning the panels upside down to maximize space.

      2 Place two of the triangles right sides together.

      3 Repeat with the remaining panels to form the umbrella cover.

      4 Place the two

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