Crafting Not Cleaning!: At Home with Modern June

Wednesday 27 August 2014

At Home with Modern June

At Home with Modern June: 27 Sewing Projects for your Handmade Lifestyle by Kelly McCants

Published by Stash Books

10th March 2014

Paperback Edition

Whether you're moving into a new home, launching a home makeover, or just sprucing up a room, this book, At Home With Modern June, by Kelly McCants provides plenty of ideas on how to infuse individuality into every room in the house. The 27 budget-friendly projects have a retro style and use materials such as oilcloth, laminated cotton, and chalk cloth in addition to quilter's cotton. Easy-to-follow instructions and helpful photographs guide you to success. You'll make drapes, bed skirts, floor mats, and much more. All that's required is a bit of ingenuity, a little time, and some basic skills.

This book reminded me, in a way of those by Cherry Menlove. Kelly McCants is an American author who started out blogging, and now has an online store plus two books to her name. She's a bit of an oilcloth addict, and this is reflected in her first book Sewing with Oilcloth, this new publication focuses more on fabrics.

At Home with Modern June is divided into

Kitchen and Dining Room

Bed and Bath

Closet and Pantry

Living Rooms - inside and out

and there are 27 projects to be completed, ranging from repurposed bunting, an embellished café curtain, bar stool makeover, makeup tray, and a sewing machine cover. The concept also isn't 'modern' but much more 50s retro which is preferable to what you may think 'modern' entails! Is there anything in here that I haven't seen before? Probably not, but then most books spin off the same ideas; there are only so many original thoughts one can have. Though I particularly liked the chalkcloth place mat which I haven't seen before!