Its a Wrap: Sewing Fabric Purses, Baskets, and Bowls

This is one of my favorite books of all times. Use it to teach classes on basket making and recommend it for all wishing to explore clothesline crafting.

Great instructions

Anxious to make some of these projects. Book is great

Happy. I got it faster than I thought. Very happy

My 13 year old granddaughter is having fun making bowls for her friends with fabric scraps. Easy & fast small projects.

Great source. Easy to follow instructions. Well worth it!

I like this book with the extra ideas to make several different kinds of bowls. It is also good for offering ways to add different colors.

In the 1.3 years that Ive had this book, and worked on this craft, Ive gotten enormous pleasure combining fabrics and colors and shaping bowls, hot pads, totes, hats and more, most of which Ive given to very appreciative friends and relatives. Susan Breier makes the process easy to undertand and follow, and the bright color photos offer many jumping-off points for individual creativity! My only caveat is that it is imperative to have a heavy-duty sewing machine and thick, sharp needles to get through the layers of fabric and clothesline smoothly. I pretty much destroyed an old Singer Futura I used at the beginning - but liked the craft so much that I bought a refurbished Bernina with a stronger motor and more durable parts, and it handles these projects, over and over, like sewing through butter. I enjoy that the craft isnt very exacting, like quilting, since Im not fond of meticulous cutting and sewing tasks. I get loads of compliments on my own pocketbooks and totes that Ive created, and its fun to explain to folks how theyre made.

Im fairly new to creating fabric-wrapped bowls, though I have sewn for most of my life, and have been quilting for 5 years. This book leaves much to be desired in terms of combining good graphics with good writing to explain how to get the results you want with fabric bowl creation. There are limited, and very simple drawings, for example which are supposed to indicate a change of angle that will result in a different design element or angle of the bowl, and the visuals dont illustrate the difference in technique or manual manipulation between four supposedly different end results. There are many places where writing is used, to confusion, when photographs would help augment the meaning of what is needed to get a desired result. The bowls she has made and has photos of are beautiful, and those visuals are wonderful. But theres extremely inadequate explanation as to how to GET those results. Ive written technical manuals, I am a hobby photographer, and this book could have done a MUCH better job of combining language with constructive visuals to get the job done. I borrowed my copy from the library, and Im really glad I did.

I bought this book for my wife for a birthday present, as she had seen bowls made using this technique. So far, she really likes the book, and has made many different shapes of bowls, using different kinds of rope, and various scraps of fabric.