Romantic Home Sewing: Cottage-Style Projects to Stitch for the Home

Christina Strutt suggests throwing nothing away without first considering its future usefulness. The instructions are clear, easy to understand and well illustrated. I especially like the bucket bag pattern. I plan to make them for my daughters to use as diaper bags (adding a cell phone pocket to the lower end of the handle). Nice assortment of sweet and simple gifts to make. Glad I purchased this book. Recommended.

I really love this book - simple but rewarding projects that most sewers would have no trouble with. lovely photography.

Excellent book! Christina Strutt had my tastes in mind when she wrote this book. It is for people who don't know much about sewing, love vintage fabrics and want to learn some ideas on how to use them. The pictures are beautiful and the instructions are clear.

The fabrics and patterns in this book are lovely. Photographic representation of all the projects are clear and wonderfully presented. The instructions seem clear (except I did find an important step for one of the handbags was omitted). I give it 4 stars instead of 5 mainly because it contains templates that have to be enlarged on a copier instead of full-size patterns. It appears that is typical with sewing books, but it is an inconvenience and requires a trip to a copy store (plus the cost) since they need to be enlarged to such a degree, you cannot do it on a regular copier without great difficulty. Fortunately there are only a few projects in this book that have templates - most of the crafts are going to be custom sized by you to fit your bed, chair, windows, etc, so templates would not be feasible. However, I do recommend this book. I am happy to have it and I do not regret purchasing it. Christina Strutt's designs are sweet and warm and this book is a welcome addition to my collection.

I don't fall in love with books easily, but this one was love at first sight for me. The photos were clear. The ideas and instructions simple and easy to follow. I borrowed a copy from the public library, now I want my own.