Steampunk Your Wardrobe, Revised Edition: Sewing and Crafting Projects to Add Flair to Fashion

Description

Steampunk Your Wardrobe is a step-by-step guide to capturing the steampunk aesthetic in apparel. It begins with easy-to-do projects such as embellishing existing garments, and progresses to more complicated alterations. Projects are also included for making steampunk'd jewelry and accessories. The author provides clever and eco-friendly techniques for restyling common garments into stylish steampunk attire. Readers will discover 19 simple and creative ideas for repurposed fashion from your closet or the second-hand shop that require little to no sewing skills. This revised edition features a gorgeous new 8-page gallery of Steampunk inspiration selected by fashion designer Evelyn Kriete, a moving force behind the worldwide Steampunk trend.

Calista Taylor is an author of steampunk/gaslight romances and non-fiction craft books, and also works as a book cover designer. She resides in New England with her husband, and two daughters.When not running things over with a sewing machine or lacing herself into a corset, Calista can be found tapping away on her laptop, tormenting her characters, and riddling the streets of Victorian London with dead bodies and heaving bosoms. She's also a creativee cook who can't follow recipes, a versatile crafter, and a happy geek.