Give the gift of sewing this season with the DIY Sewing Kit! 

Kit contains:

Sew Subversive: Down & Dirty DIY for the Fabulous Fashionista

and

Amy Butler's Sew-It Kit: 15 Simple & Stylish Sewing Projects for the Home

For full product descriptions for these items see below:

Sew Subversive: Sew Subversive is about making fashion your own, whether it's embellishing or customizing off-the-rack clothing or transforming clothes that have lost that loving feeling. The three twenty-something co-owners of Stitch Lounge, an urban sewing studio in San Francisco, teach you, in plain, fun language, how to do it, whether you're hand sewing, machine sewing, or, in a few cases, simply wielding a pair of scissors.
The first three chapters lay the ground work: Hand Sewing Basics, You and Your Machine, and Gearing Up, which includes Fabric 101, how to set up a sewing space, and a run-through first project on the sewing machine. Then the fun begins with Embellishing and Customizing projects, including adorning your pant legs with ribboning, turning a computer-scanned image into an iron-on that you can apply to a t-shirt or skirt, taking in a skirt, or untapering a pair of pants (the authors believe tapered pants are the devil's work). Then move onto Refashioning: The Next Life of Your Old Clothes and turn a t-shirt into a skirt, a sweater into a halter top or legwarmers, or a pair of pants into a hip belt. There are 22 projects in all, some of which only require an iron and/or pair of scissors, while others can be sewn by hand, for those readers who haven't yet made the sewing machine plunge.

Amy Butler's Sew-It Kit: Celebrated designer Amy Butler brings her fresh, modern style to the timeless craft of sewing in this kit. Inside you'll find fifteen project cards, including five brand-new projects and ten from Amy's In Stitches book. Ranging from floor cushions to smart aprons to stylish handbags; plus thread and fabric for making the Tissue Box Cover with Amy's gorgeous fabric designs. Includes:
- 32-page instructional booklet
- 15 folded project cards with finished photographs and step-by-step illustrations
- Thread
- 2 pieces of fabric (100% cotton)
- 7 full-size patterns

Shipping Cost: 4.95, plus $1.75 insurance (optional). The Charter Foundation is not responsible for any items lost in the mail.