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Summary: Comprehensive Ideas for the New designer
Review: After spending a number of years making rudimentary custom clutch bags to sell at craft fairs, this book would have made our life quite easy with ideas, innovation, and technique. After reviewing a copy of Carol Parks' book, we are considering re-entering the designing of custom purses. It definitely provides the beginner and master designer with "design food" for thought.
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Summary: Comprehensive Ideas for the New designer
Review: After spending a number of years making rudimentary custom clutch bags to sell at craft fairs, this book would have made our life quite easy with ideas, innovation, and technique. After reviewing a copy of Carol Parks' book, we are considering re-entering the designing of custom purses. It definitely provides the beginner and master designer with "design food" for thought.
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Summary: Waste of my money
Review: I bought this book after taking it out of the library. I found the types of handbags varied and the samples ranging from very conservative to outstanding examples of wearable art. The directions are easy to follow. I have made two pocket purses using free motion embroidery (new to me) and my friends love them!
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Summary: For Creative Personalities
Review: I bought this book after taking it out of the library. I found the types of handbags varied and the samples ranging from very conservative to outstanding examples of wearable art. The directions are easy to follow. I have made two pocket purses using free motion embroidery (new to me) and my friends love them!
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Summary: Buy only if you like ugly
Review: I didn't look into this purchase enough and if I was smart I would have returned it. I HATED IT! It is out of date and most of the bags looks like something that only a butch lesbian would carry arround. Nothing pretty or fashionable.Think twice before going for this one. They did a great job at marketing, however the product stinks.
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Summary: Tips, not patterns
Review: If I'd had the chance to flip through this in the bookstore, I never would have bought it. There are no diagrams or illustrations, the directions are confusing, and the bags are generally hideous. (I would say that they were out of style, but virtually none of them could be said to have been stylish in any era.) If you're tempted to buy it based on the other reviews, do yourself a favor and check it out at a library or bookstore first. The (very) few tips it has to offer are better found elsewhere.
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Summary: Don't bother
Review: If I'd had the chance to flip through this in the bookstore, I never would have bought it. There are no diagrams or illustrations, the directions are confusing, and the bags are generally hideous. (I would say that they were out of style, but virtually none of them could be said to have been stylish in any era.) If you're tempted to buy it based on the other reviews, do yourself a favor and check it out at a library or bookstore first. The (very) few tips it has to offer are better found elsewhere.
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Summary: Waste of my money
Review: In my opinion, I found this book to have some of the ugliest handbags / purses that I have ever seen. I have no desire to recreate any of them.
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Summary: Uninspiring and ugly
Review: Not a single bag style that I would recreate, I had started making handbags when I bought this book for inspiration, big mistake. All of the bags look like home-ec projects (and not from the talented kids) in unattractive colors and fabrics. The patterns are not cute or trendy, and I struggled to pick out even one good tip I could use. If you're the type that likes to wear sweatshirts with embroidered kittens and flowers on the front you might like this book, if not, don't waste your money.
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Summary: Ick
Review: There are some hideous bags in here. I bought the book for tips on sewing handbags, not for patterns luckily. The handbags features are more of a fiber art style, not fashionable. There are a few decent tips on construction, but nothing too fabulous.
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