Skirt-A-Day Sewing: Create 28 Skirts for a Unique Look Every Day by Nicole Smith ~ Review

My Review:

A fun book to look at with cool ideas for sewing skirts.

While this book has some great hints and ideas, I couldn't help but think that a novice sewer would have some difficulty with, all the drafting of the self-made patterns, not because this book did a bad job of explaining things, but because sewing is rather complex! I speak from experience. So I would mostly recommend this book towards someone, with a pretty good grip on sewing.

While I didn't actually sew any of the patterns exactly, I applied a lot of the information to my current sewing projects, mainly because I like my skirts ankle length.

This book has alot of unique patterns and ideas that would be really fun to make, and that I might keep in mind for the future! A fun book that gave me some great ideas.

I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Thanks!

Crochet One-Skein Wonders edited by Judith Durant & Edie Eckman ~ Review

My Review: A lovely book to help you use up all of your yarn scraps!

If you are a crocheter, or knitter, you probably have tons of left over yarn with no clue what to make with it. But this fun book has 101 crochet projects to help you solve that problem, and most of them make wonderful gifts!

For me the only real problem with this book was that I don't have a lot of left over fine yarns laying around because they are so expensive, so there were quite a few projects that I wasn't able to attempt. But I liked how there were alot of cute and quick scarf patterns, that came in handy around Christmas for great gifts.

The patterns were well written and easy to understand with both written instructions and sometimes a graph as well, so if there is a any confusion a graph is available for quick reference. Personally I would have liked a little more variety in the patterns for worsted weight yarn, but I know that is a tall order, and there aren't a ton of things you can make with so little yarn. But what this book showed me how to make was super cute, and perfect for gifting.

Overall, a book worth checking out. Especially if you are looking for cute gifts to crochet with yarn you already have :) 

I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Thank you!