Book Review: Better Homes & Gardens Appliqué
Author: Better Homes & Gardens magazine staff
Date: 1978
Publisher: Meredith Corporation
ISBN: 0-696-00435-6
Length: 96 pages
Illustrations: full-color photos and templates
Quote: “Even a beginner can create the vibrant, attractive floral pillows.”
Appliqué is a quick and easy craft; the challenge is finding the perfect material, not perfecting the skill of cutting it out and tacking it together. These are fun projects for Scouts, for middle school sewing classes, for parents and children. Because the work goes fast and can be done by alert patients in bed, appliqué is also nice for people with disabilities; I suppose this comes to mind because, when my wheelchair-bound grandmother lived with us (I was seven years old), one of the things she and I did was make coordinating appliqué curtains for all the windows in the house.
So, what will this book show you how to make? Pillows, window shades, a “game banner” with pockets for game boards and pieces, quilts, toys, curtains, wall hangings, tablecloths, napkins, gift boxes, sleeping bags, even a “soft headboard,” and if the perfect pattern for what you want to make isn’t in the book, at least reading the book will give you a good idea of how to make the pattern you want.
Better Homes & Gardens Appliqué offers a thrifty way to recycle worn-out, out-of-style clothes without losing any memories that may be attached to them—even polyester, in 1978 when people were discarding masses of polyester—and entertain children, convalescents, and also nurses or baby-sitters.
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