Sewing Happiness : : a Year of Simple Projects for Living Well

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Part I : Essays + Lookbooks. Introduction ; Summer : Health ; Fall : Creativity ; Winter : Relationships ; Spring : Letting go ; Epilogue -- Part II : Instructions. Sewing basics ; The mini sashiko primer and templates -- Summer -- Fall -- Winter -- Spring.
"Twenty simple sewing projects are tied together with a thread of memoir that tells the story of how sewing brought Sanae Ishida profound happiness. Each seasonal project, specially designed to promote health, creativity, relationships and more, provides gentle inspiration to live your best life. When Ishida was diagnosed with a chronic illness and lost her corporate job, she thought her life was over. But these challenges ended up being the best thing that ever happened to her because they forced her to take stock of her life and focus on the important things, and enabled her to rediscover sewing--her true passion. Inspired to succeed at just one thing, Ishida vowed to sew all of her daughter's clothes (and most of her own) for one year. Sewing Happiness includes 20 projects plus variations (including Japanese-inspired home goods and children and women clothing) organized by season, and stitched together with Ishida charming personal story."--Amazon.com.

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Love this book! submitted by fairytale on July 17, 2018, 4:58pm This book is filled with beautiful sewing projects and thoughtful stories. Highly recommend!

Lovely Book submitted by charlotte mayhew on July 5, 2019, 12:32pm I love the aesthetic of this book--crisp graphics with just the right amount of white space. The photos clearly show the projects and the instructions are easy to understand.

However, the arch of the personal stories are about the author's healing journey. Having suffered from the same disease, I feel compelled to say that the solution is not as easy as the author makes it out to be. The author's symptoms are not all typical, and neither is her healing. In that respect, I feel the book is irresponsible--Graves' Disease can be deadly if not treated appropriately.