The New Handmade: Simple Sewing for Contemporary Style

In an age of mass-produced fashion, express your individual style! Create handmade projects for your wardrobe and home with only a small time commitment and basic sewing skills. Now you can make fun, useful accessories and gifts with the contemporary fabrics you love.

• Choose from totes and bags, cases and covers, fashion accents, and home decor projects
• Learn techniques you'll use again and again, such as installing zippers, using fusible appliqué, and basic machine quilting
• Mix and match the elements to make each design a one-of-a-kind masterpiece
• It's fresh. It's unique. It's handmade!

Cassie Barden has been involved in making art her whole life, from cartooning, filmmaking, and painting to making odd stuffed animals and creating costumes for Burning Man and Halloween. An interest in both sewing and fashion inspired her to start creating her own one-of-a-kind bags and accessories that appeal to both her utilitarian and style-conscious natures. When she's not sewing, Cassie enjoys two Seattle institutions: live music and drinking coffee. Cassie is inspired by contemporary art and design, anything retro or old-fashioned, and Seattle's urban culture.