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Katrin Cargill's Simple Curtains: Creative Ideas & 20 Step-By-Step Projects
Katrin Cargill

Ryland Peters & Small, 2005

Let soft-furnishing guru Katrin Cargill take the mystery out of making curtains and learn to make simple, stylish window treatments for every room in your home. Select from over 80 ideas for beautiful window dressings designed to suit all levels of sewing ability, while showcasing Katrin's special talent for using fabrics in surprisingly innovative ways. Chapters include Use of Fabrics, Headings, Valances, and Edgings. See the full effect of the ...

Swedish Style: Creating the Look

2 reviews
Katrin Cargill

Frances Lincoln, 2003

Beautiful interiors
This is a lovely book with beautiful color pictures from what I think is authentic interiors. The author walks us through the essence of swedish style via colors, fabrics, accessories and furniture. I miss not having typical interiors and suggestions of how to decorate individual rooms such as hallways and kitchens etc. The main focus is on livingrooms and bedrooms. I still think it's a good ...

Katrin Cargill's Curtain Bible: Simple and Stylish Designs for Contemporary Curtains and Blinds

2 reviews
Katrin Cargill

Bulfinch, 2002

Contemporary Solutions
It's not always easy to find appropriate window treatments for contemporary interiors. This book offers lots of solutions in photos, with illustrated projects using simple basic sewing techniques. If you're looking for fancy drapes for traditional homes, this probably isn't the book for you. But if you're young and want something with clean lines and easy sewing, you may find it just right.

Simple Soft Furnishings: 50 Stylish Sewing Projects to Transform Your Home

1 review
Katrin Cargill

Firefly Books, 2004

Projects ranging from cushions to fine curtains
Sewing projects can transform a home, especially with Katrin Cargill's Simple Soft Furnishings: 50 Stylish Home Sewing Projects To Transform Your Home in hand, which provides 50 projects ranging from cushions to fine curtains and table linens. Five key areas of the home where soft furnishings apply are reviewed in the course of project tips, which include how to avoid common problems. Materials ...

Contemporary Painted Furniture
Katrin Cargill

Ryland, Peters & Small Ltd, 1999

Pillows: Home Living Workbooks

1 review
Katrin Cargill

Clarkson Potter, 1996

Best pillow book around.
This is the best pillow book I've ever seen. It has many different designs to copy and/or use as inspiration. The photos are exquisite and the layout is quite ingenious. Each pillow project is explained on a fold-out page. It also comes spiral-bound, so it lays flat while you're working. I highly recommend it.

Embroidery: 25 Classic Step-By-Step Projects (Traditional Needle Arts)

1 review
Katrin Cargill

Thunder Bay Pr, 1995

Beautiful photos and well organized book.
This is a book that Martha Stewart would be proud of. The photos are beautiful, and the book is well organized. It's great for beginners as well as those with higher skill levels, but, most importantly, it tells you HOW to make each project. You are given the needle size, color, and fabric and instructions on finishing. The projects are beautiful to make and doesn't give you the "granny" ...

Lampshades: Home Living Workbooks

3 reviews
Katrin Cargill

Clarkson Potter, 1996

Lampshades by Katrin Cargill photographs by James Merrell
As an avid home sewer, I found this book to be very helpful in creating my first lampshades. I enjoyed the pictures and found them to be helpful for future ideas. I also felt that this book had very good written directions that one needs to read to be successful. The lampshades featured in this book are more of the "tailored" everyday type and not the "victorian" vintage style. I continue ...

Simple Curtains (Home Living Workbooks)

3 reviews
Katrin Cargill

Clarkson Potter, 1998

Great ideas which are reasonably easy to make!
This is the best book on curtains that I have seen - and I've looked around quite a bit. I was looking for several things to help me make curtains for my new home. Although I have some sewing experience I would not call myself an expert sewer. Many of the books currently available are really geared towards people with my level of experience or less, including this book. I wanted good pictures ...

Katrin Cargill's Simple Pillows: Creative Ideas & 20 Step-By-Step Projects
Katrin Cargill

Ryland Peters & Small, 2005

Add style and panache to your home with Katrin Cargill's 100 stunning new pillow ideas. Whatever your decor, this practical workbook will inspire you to create beautiful pillows for beds, chairs, and sofas in a wide variety of stunning fabrics. Learn everything you need to know, including Shapes, Use of Fabrics, Borders and Edgings, Trimmings and Fastenings, and Surface Decoration - all captured in James Merrell's stylish and instructive ...

Creating the Look: Swedish Style

3 reviews
Katrin Cargill

Pantheon, 1996

Easy to follow guide to achieve the Swedish look
A beautifully photographed book with easy to follow instructions to achieve the Swedish look. Covers all aspects furniture, paint, linens, curtains, etc. It also offers a good summary of Swedish history and how that affected the look through the years.

Easy Country
Katrin Cargill

Ryland Peters & Small, 2008

Comfort, simplicity, and elegance are the main characteristics of country interiors, making them the perfect antidote to the stresses and strains of modern living. Katrin Cargill draws on the enduring appeal of traditional rural homes to present a new, updated, easy-to-achieve approach to interior style. The unique "Easy Country" look brings together design influences from around the world. It is a distillation of elements associated with ...

Lampshades: Home Living Workbooks

The Home Furnishing workbook: With 32 Step-by-step Projects

2 reviews
Katrin Cargill

Ryland Peters & Small, 2006

A broad overview of many decorating ideas
This book has sections on bedding, lampshades, curtains, and pillows. Each section has several ideas of great-looking projects that you can make at home. It never really occured to me that I could make my own lampshades in fabrics to match my room! The projects are all ingredibly simple, also... but the finished projects look stunning!

Passion for Pattern, A

3 reviews
Katrin Cargill

Clarkson Potter, 1997

A Passion For This Book!
I am an interior design professional and we have a copy of this book in our office. It is full of fun, vibrant, whimsical and creative ideas. It is another wonderful book from Katrin Cargil.

Easy Country: A New Approach to Country Style

6 reviews
Katrin Cargill

Bulfinch Press, 1998

Beautiful, rustic images...
I spent my early years in PA Dutch country, and this book spring's forth that rustic, well-thought-out, simple, quiet, comfortable, country look. The soft colors, lack of clutter, simple collections, and throwback to an older Americana time is a breath of fresh air, particularly since I've lived in mega-metropolises since leaving the country way of life. If you're looking for decorating ideas, ...

Painted Furniture: Making Ordinary Furniture Extraordinary With Paint, Pattern, and Color

1 review
Katrin Cargill, David Montgomery, ...

Bulfinch Press, 1999

Not the best on this topic
I love color. I love paint. I love decorating. This book is OK but it's one of those European imports, so the settings don't look quite right. And this book has been around awhile. I just found a new book on the subject called Painted Furniture, which is by the Better Homes and Gardens people. Painted Furniture has complete how-to, fresh color and styles, and it has settings and product lists ...

The Soft Furnishing Workbook
Katrin Cargill, James Merrell

Ryland, Peters & Small Ltd, 1999

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