Title: Menopause Makes: Empowering Sewing Projects to Relax Your Mind, Cool Your Body and Ignite Your Creativity
Publisher: Search Press
Publication Date: 2025
Language: English
ISBN 10: 180092254X
ISBN 13: 9781800922549
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Weight: 2 pounds

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Synopsis

Sew your way through the menopause with creativity, confidence and a joyful riot of color!

Discover 10 beginner-friendly sewing projects to create beautiful accessories and wearables for yourself, or to gift to friends.

Feel good while making the projects and feel even better using them: the act of sewing can help to curb brain fog and anxiety, while the finished pieces will keep you cool, relieve insomnia, and hopefully inspire some pampering and self-care.

This vibrant book from sewing experts Jenni Smith and Kay Walsh is here to transform how you experience this important life transition. These 10 fabulous projects will help you to rediscover joy and creativity when peri-menopause and menopause seem to take the reins.

Whether you're a sewing newbie or dusting off old skills, Jenni and Kay have crafted beginner-friendly projects that are as practical as they are beautiful. Whip up a chic potion pouch for those essential pick-me-ups, or an elegant eye mask to banish sleepless nights. Stay cool and stylish with a breezy cover-up, or find moments of calm in slow-stitching a charming log-cabin placemat.

Here's what you'll find inside:

An introduction to the menopause, and the benefits of crafting on wellbeing, from Dr Hannah Davies (BSc MBBS MRCGP), who specializes in menopause and lifestyle medicine at the world-renowned Newson Health Clinic
10 unique sewing projects with pull out pattersn, designed to ease the various physical and mental discomforts that come with menopause, from insomnia and memory loss to brain fog
Inspiring photos, step-by-step instructions and easy-to-follow illustrations to guide you through each project
A handy chapter on essential sewing techniques for both beginners or for those needing a crash course
Designer spotlights, celebrating a range of female indie fabric designers whose fabrics have been used throughout the book: Sally Kelly, Karen Lewis, Rashida Coleman-Hale and Alice Caroline

Menopause Makes is both a celebration of creativity and an invitation to self-care. Sew away the symptoms and stitch together a new chapter of confidence and craftiness!

About the Author

Jenni Smith and Kay Walsh are experienced sewing and quilt teachers based in Yorkshire, UK. They travel the globe producing online textile workshops for Quilt Folk magazine and produce their own patterns sold at www.jenni-smith.co.uk. Menopause Makes is Jenni and Kay's second book; their first was Quilting with Liberty Fabrics (Lucky Spool Media).

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