Have you just moved into your first home, or are you ready to give your existing home a new look? This inspirational, yet comprehensive sewing course covers the range of skills necessary to design and make your own soft furnishings for one of the key rooms in the home, the living room. The 25 projects include items simple enough for beginners to make, but the level of designs will also appeal to those with more advanced skills. The book includes: Choice and use of materials and equipment, selecting styles, advice on colour and pattern and customizing; estimating fabric quantities; care of soft furnishings, Ideas for dressing windows, including lined and interlined curtains with machined and handmade headings, Roman blinds and tab-top curtains, Window treatments, including a simple throw-over swag, pelmets (valances) and traditional and plaited tiebacks, All kinds of covers, from basic throws to round tablecloths, stools and chair covers, Cushions -- pads and piping, cords and tassels, buttoned and zipped cushions, bolsters and box cushions Even if it is just one room, most of us enjoy having some space to call our own and the desire to make our surroundings look, and feel, comfortable is a natural instinct within us. Soft furnishings are one of the quickest ways to achieve a new look in an interior and while hiring professionals to do this can be an expensive process, making up your own designs can save a lot of money and is also fun to do.

Soft Furnishings for Living Rooms is designed to take the student through a carefully structured course for one of the key rooms in the home, beginning with the simplest door curtain, throw-over swag and basic cushion with cords and tassels, and leading on to more advanced projects such as a Roman blind, swags and tails, footstools and bolster and box cushions. The book is divided into five chapters: Getting Started, Dressing Windows; Window Accessories; Covers and Cushions. Each chapter starts with an easy project for a beginner to tackle and builds up to intermediate and more advanced designs. The 25 projects themselves have been carefully selected to provide a mix of traditional and contemporary techniques and ideas. All are accompanied by clear, step-by-step instructions and diagrams and over 90 beautifully styled photographs, making them accessible and achievable, whatever your level of skill. Once you have worked your way through this course, which has been designed by Miriam Coe, an ex-tutor of the renowned Liberty Sewing School, you should feel confident enough to make any soft furnishing project for the living room.