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    Modern Upcycling: A User-Friendly Guide to Inspiring and Repurposed Handicrafts for a Trendy Home
    Modern Upcycling: A User-Friendly Guide to Inspiring and Repurposed Handicrafts for a Trendy Home
    Modern Upcycling: A User-Friendly Guide to Inspiring and Repurposed Handicrafts for a Trendy Home
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    Modern Upcycling: A User-Friendly Guide to Inspiring and Repurposed Handicrafts for a Trendy Home

    By Susanna Zacke and Sania Hedengren

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    Don’t throw out old clothing or scraps leftover from finished projects. Upcycling is today’s hottest trend in handicraft and decor, and master crafters Susanna Zacke and Sania Hedengren are here to show how it’s done in their vibrant new guide, Modern Upcycling. Discover unique ideas to inspire your creativity, and decorate your home with those fabric remnants and odds and ends you already have in your crafting kit.

    Make rustic place settings from crocheted yarn and embroidery, reuse old pallets to make furniture with wheels, hang paintings in old window panes, and cast a fruit bowl from concrete. Divided into five chaptersconcrete, wood, yarn, paper, and fabricfor quick inspiration, Modern Upcycling features sixty-five projects accompanied by sumptuous photographs and step-by-step instructions.

    Follow Susanna and Sania into their world of bright colors, cozy spaces, and pieces that are beautiful to look at and that serve a practical purpose. Whether you love to crochet, garden, cast in concrete, or make ornaments from paper, Modern Upcycling is guaranteed to help you revitalize and personalize your home.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSkyhorse
    Release dateNov 4, 2014
    ISBN9781632200501
    Modern Upcycling: A User-Friendly Guide to Inspiring and Repurposed Handicrafts for a Trendy Home

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    • 4/5
      Loved looking at these projects, but 99% of them I wouldn't do OR wouldn't be able to do. I stopped feeling bad about that when I got to one project where step one was "cut a tree trunk to desired size".

      Overall, fun to flip through, but not something I will likely look at for my next project unless I get a lot more handy.

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    Modern Upcycling - Susanna Zacke

    HANDICRAFTS

    —homemade and personal!

    The term handicrafts can sound both pretentious and a bit old-fashioned, but we think it represents something really wonderful, something that’s been made by hand—a craftsmanship that needs to be preserved. Through this book, we want to inspire you to create your own crafts. We consider handicrafts to be something that you make with your own two hands, either for your own enjoyment or as a gift for loved ones.

    Materials for handicrafts can vary. We have chosen to work with five specific types, all featured in their own chapter: fabric, wood, yarn, paper, and, last but not least, concrete. We have created items based on our own interests and put together layouts and interior designs that we hope will awaken the creativity within you.

    We cast Easter eggs from concrete, crochet necklaces and bunting with yarn, and in the chapter on fabrics, our old vintage fabrics are featured as both a pouf and a lampshade. The garden bench where we grow things was made from an old mullioned window, and the towels in our bathroom are hung on a ladder made from branches. Old wallpaper can be used to cover bricks, cans, or vases. We’ll also show you what you can do with a few pages from a secondhand book or an old rug.

    We really hope you will enjoy modern, upcycled handicrafts!

    Susanna & Sania

    PS

    We want to take the opportunity to thank ALL our readers, those of you who buy, read, or borrow our books. You let yourself be inspired by our ideas, you follow our blog, and you like what we do, and for that we want to give you a big THANK YOU!

    FABRIC

    We almost exclusively use vintage fabric when we work. Old comforters from the seventies are like gold to us, and we create new pillows, dresses, and curtains from them, or dress a lampshade in strips torn from a sheet. We love when the edges fray and it looks a bit worn. Kitchen towels and prettily embroidered tablecloths can also be put to good use. An antique sewing machine and old wooden spools are charming details that we leave out on display.

    VINTAGE CUSHIONS

    These cushions are made from duvet covers from the seventies, and to our thinking, this is as good as it gets. In the photograph on the previous page you can see many other lovely things made from fabric, such as a dress, a seat, and several pillows. There is also a patchwork quilt made by someone else. A simple way to make a cushion cover is to sew it as you would a pillowcase, which means you need neither a zipper nor any buttons.

    •   Measure the pillow. Here we are using a pillow that measures 23½ (60 cm) in length and 20 (50 cm) in width.

    •   Cut the material so it measures 57 (145 cm) long and 20 (50 cm) wide, adding another ½" (1.5 cm) seam allowance all around.

    •   Hem the short ends.

    •   Fold the material in half, right sides together, but leave 10" (25 cm), which is then folded back. This piece will then be facing right side up.

    •   Pin the long ends together.

    •   Sew the long ends together.

    •   Look at a regular pillowcase to see how it’s made.

    PHOTO TO THE RIGHT: The armchair was a bargain we found online. We wrapped the armrests in fabric strips.

    WRAP

    The living room is decorated with gorgeous natural fabrics in rich patterns and colors. Our goal was to draw attention to the materials used—wood, flax, and

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