{"product_id":"9781561588091","title":"Sew Subversive: Down and Dirty DIY for the Fabulous Fashionista","description":"\u003cp\u003eSew Subversive is about making fashion your own, whether it's embellishing or customizing off-the-rack clothing or transforming clothes that have lost that loving feeling. The three twenty-something co-owners of Stitch Lounge, an urban sewing studio in San Francisco, teach you, in plain, fun language, how to do it, whether you're hand sewing, machine sewing, or, in a few cases, simply wielding a pair of scissors.\u003cbr\u003eThe first three chapters lay the ground work: Hand Sewing Basics, You and Your Machine, and Gearing Up, which includes Fabric 101, how to set up a sewing space, and a run-through first project on the sewing machine. Then the fun begins with Embellishing and Customizing projects, including adorning your pant legs with ribboning, turning a computer-scanned image into an iron-on that you can apply to a t-shirt or skirt, taking in a skirt, or untapering a pair of pants (the authors believe tapered pants are the devil's work). Then move onto Refashioning: The Next Life of Your Old Clothes and turn a t-shirt into a skirt, a sweater into a halter top or legwarmers, or a pair of pants into a hip belt. There are 22 projects in all, some of which only require an iron and\/or pair of scissors, while others can be sewn by hand, for those readers who haven't yet made the sewing machine plunge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taunton Press, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47050136584432,"sku":"9781561588091","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781561588091_p0.jpg?v=1763767850","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781561588091","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}