JCB 69 Piece Tools Set JCB-69HTK
January 21st, 2008
JCB 69 Piece Tools Set JCB-69HTK
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5 Lb. Nitrogen Packed Can of Certified Organic Buckwheat sprouting seed. Nutritional info: Vitamins A, B, C and E Calcium, Iron, Magnesium, Niacin, Phosphorus, Potassium All Amino Acids Protein: 15%. Buckwheat sprouts can be grown in soil just like the sunflower seeds.Divide the tray into two parts, one reserved for the sunflowers, the other side for the buckwheat, and follow the same method as listed above. The reason you want to separate the two is that buckwheat greens are very fine, delicate sprouts… Too big for a jar, but not hardy enough to intertwine with the sunflower greens. But planting buckwheat along side sunflower greens is a fun way to begin to appreciate the variety of sprouts available…
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Increases seed germination time, Contains many vitamins and all 107 essential minerals, Improves crop quality & yield, Helps plants & flowers fruit, Completely Biodegradable, Leaves no residue on your wheatgrass or plants, Safe for all your indoor and outdoor plants, including sprouts, No contamination issues, Benefits both roots & leaves, Safe around pets & children!
Price: $89.95
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Sew 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.
The 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.
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Customer Review: Perfect for a beginner: fun and helpful. Might be too funky for some though.
As a novice, I appreciate all of the basic info at the beginning of the book. I also like the authors’ fun, hip, “hey girlfriend” tone. Each project includes a time estimate, and many projects provide instructions for handstitching as well as machine-sewing. Would I cut off the sleeves from a sweater to make leg warmers or turn vintage ties into cuffs and collars? Probably not. But I will try turning a sweatshirt into a tote and definitely “un-taperfy” some pants by adding a triangle of fabric for flair (and yes, flare too). This book is fun and helpful for novices, and its projects encourage personal creativity and new ways of thinking about clothing.
Customer Review: Not what I expected but it has a lot of good basic info
I bought this book expecting it to be full of complete projects- not so. I guess it sort of says that it’s about personalizing your wardrobe, I just didn’t realize that it was pretty much all about reconstructing old clothes. Some of the ideas are good, but I found most of them to be either really basic (as in, common sense- sewing a patch on a skirt to make it different, etc.) or something that I wouldn’t really wear. I think that this book would probably be better for a teenager or someone in her early 20’s. On the other hand, for basic sewing instruction, I thought that this book had some nice thorough info.
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