Half Yard™ Kids

Debbie Shore is a best-selling and award-winning author. She began her career as a children's television presenter and since then has appeared regularly as an actress in various popular dramas and as a presenter on shopping channels. Debbie has developed her own range of fabrics, designed her own patterns, writes for several popular sewing magazine and has written over 20 books for Search Press with several more underway. She is the winner of Craft Influencer of the Year 2020 in the Craft Business Awards, and Social Media Influencer of the Year 2019 in the British Sewing Awards.Debbie has over 215,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel, which has over 28 million views. In 2018, Debbie launched her Half Yard Sewing Club, a monthly subscription service based on the megaselling Half Yard™ series, and won the 2019 IPG Digital Publishing Award. For more details about the club visit www.halfyardsewingclub.com. Debbie lives in Lincolnshire. Visit her website www.debbieshoresewing.com.

Most folks who sew end up with a wealth of scraps left over and are often looking for small projects so those scraps don’t go to waste. Most of the projects in this book use the ubiquitous 100-percent-cotton fabric preferred by quilters, but a few use wool felt. The techniques are for the most part standard and not overly complicated, but there are brief instructions for a handful of the most common. The projects range from practical and useful to purely fun. Unlike some books of projects for children, these are not too heavily stylized and leave plenty of room for interpretation and embellishment to suit any individual child’s taste. Included are a craft easel, drawing folder, Halloween bunting, hot-water bottle, ball, witch’s hat, kite wall hanging, coin purse, a few creatures, two games, several bags, and more. Each set of instructions is illustrated with crisp photographs, though the instructions themselves are brief. Those with some sewing experience will find them sufficient, but a beginner may wish for more detail.

• Introduction 8Sewing kit 10Before you start 12 The projects 16Craft easel 16Fish for fish, ditch the crab! 22Foxy drawing folder 28Halloween bunting 34Crafty kids' backpack 36Monkey skittles 44Hot water bottle 48Patchwork ball 52Witch's hat 54Pillow mate 58Cube tidy 64Chair pockets 66Porthole curtains 70Pyjama eater 72Shoe bag 76Roaring storing! 78Kite wall hanging 82Caravan caddy 84Miss Monster bookend 90Coin purse 94 Templates and index 96