My usual post Shabbat lunch activity is going to the library. This week this new Martha Stewart book was on the shelf and I decided to take it home. Martha Stewart is the master of re-cycling. What I mean by that is that she is very good at taking ideas that have been out there for a long long time and re-packaging them as her own . The beautiful photography helps a whole lot. What I find the most irritating about Martha's approach are projects like the beautiful no-sew Ultrasuede wrap skirt. It is so easy that a beginner might think about attempting it. The only thing is, that Ultrasuede retails for about $60 per yard. How many beginners would be comfortable shelling out $120 for a beginner project? One of the projects is a child's dress made out of a man's dress shirt. My 1940's sewing books are filled with projects , including little girl dresses made out of men's dress shirts. One sees similar projects in the hippie inspired craft books of the 1960's and ...
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