| Handmade Home: Simple Ways to Repurpose Old Materials into New Family Treasures |  | Author: Amanda Blake Soule
Publisher: Trumpeter
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Edition: Original
Pages: 192
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 8.3 x 0.6
ISBN: 1590305957
Dewey Decimal Number: 745.5
EAN: 9781590305959
ASIN: 1590305957
Publication Date: August 11, 2009
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Product Description
For many of us, our home is the center of our life. It is the place where our families meet and mingle, where we share our meals and share our dreams. So much more than just a space to live, our homes offer us a place of comfort, nourishment, and love for us and for our children.
In Handmade Home, Amanda Blake Soule, author of The Creative Family and the blog SouleMama.com, offers simple sewing and craft projects for the home that reflect the needs, activities, and personalities of today’s families. As Amanda writes in the introduction, “As a crafter, I’m always looking for the next thing I want to make. As a mama, I’m always looking for the next thing we need—to do, to have, to use—as a family. The coming together of these parts is where the heart of Handmade Home lies.”
Filled with thirty-three projects made by reusing and repurposing materials, all of the items here offer a practical use in the home. From picnic blankets made out of repurposed bed sheets to curtains made out of vintage handkerchiefs, these projects express the sense of making something new out of something old as a way to live a more financially pared-down and simple life; lessen our impact on the earth; connect to the past and preserve a more traditional way of life; and place value on the work of the hands. Also included are projects that children can help with, allowing them to make their own special contribution to the family home.
More than just a collection of projects for handmade items, this book offers the tools to create a life—and home—full of beauty, integrity, and joy.
Projects include:
• Papa’s Healing Cozy: This hot water bottle cover becomes a simple way to offer comfort to a sick child
• Baby Sling: A simple pattern for an object that offers so much to a small child—refuge from the world and a place to lay their head next to a parent’s heart
• Beach Blanket To-Go: Repurpose old sheets to create the perfect picnic blanket for special outdoor meals
• Cozy Wall Pockets: A creative solution for storing a child’s small treasures Pattern templates for Handmade Home
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Great resource! August 31, 2010
Burgundy Damsel (Albany, New York)
I really enjoyed this. Not all the projects were applicable to my life, but the ones that were are perfect. Items like the baby sling, pot holders and fabric signs would make great gifts. I especially liked the braided rag rug and bathroom towel rugs, too. All the instructions are simple, and the author includes little reminders throughout of where to look for repurpose-able fabric already in your life. Definitely worth picking up!
Wonderful coverage of responsible crafting April 1, 2010
A. Sell (NJ)
I love it when authors provide information and ideas for reusing items- especially thrift shop fabric or old clothes. This book is packed with ideas and patterns for making use of found fabric (or worn out linens around the house). I am giving this book 4 stars because I found a few of the projects to be a little weird, frankly.... but most are inspiring!
 Wonderful resource for homeschooling families! February 4, 2010
Melinda Taylor-kelly (New Orleans, LA)
I stumbled on [...] blog just a few months ago, I finally broke down and brought this book, and her other one.
This one is great, very inspiring, and a GREAT resource for anyone who homeschool's, or even unschool's. Also it is rich, and child inclusive. She really includes the children, and on levels that they can do...so many art and craft books for children tend to be surface only, this one goes beyond the next level!
We are all exicted to have this book!, It already has inspired each of us!
 Not worth buying. November 24, 2009
Olivia (Idaho)
8 out of 16 found this review helpful
Handmade Home is mostly about using vintage and repurposed materials to make craft items for the home. The projects however, are very blah and armature looking. None of the projects appealed to me. Handmade Home is about the worst craft book I have yet to read and I read a lot of them. Be sure to check it out of your library before purchasing. I bet you won't buy it.
For great projects, try Bend the Rules Sewing. The projects in Bend the Rules are fresh, fun and charming and repurposed materials would work beautifully for any of them.
 Encouraging but not inspiring October 26, 2009
JEgmont (East Coaster)
23 out of 27 found this review helpful
I love Amanda's Blog and own her first book "Creative Family." Her words are inspiring and although the craft projects are less than inspiring or unique in her 2nd book, her voice is lovely to read. Her first book has a bit more of her in it as opposed "Handmade Home" which jumps from project to project. The recycled paper the book is printed on is a nice touch but it dulls the photos, and there could be a few more images added to readily inspire.
If you are new to crafts and recycling in your home you may love this book, but I would recommend "Creative Family" first. "Handmade Home" has similar info on recycling/thrifting and if that's a new concept to you the book is worth a look at a library or bookstore but not a great reference or a great read. I feel that in the book the author seems to be spending to obtain all these "thrifted items" whereas most folks have plenty og old sheets and towels around and wouldn't use any designer fabric to make cloth napkins...
The author is an inspiring mom, author and blogger, and for those who may never enter her world on her blog the book may help to stimulate creativity. But it's not original nor have any concepts been taken to the next level for perhaps her more interested fan base. Kudos that she has published 2 books with 4 kids and let's you take a peak into her world via her blog, but the book, unless you wish to support her efforts, doesn't jump off the shelf and seems to have been rushed by the publisher.
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