Patchwork playthings cover

Patchwork playthings

by Margaret Hutchings

Clever little book on making a variety of soft toys from fabric hexagons, lozenges and triangles. The toys shown are unusual and some of them will be unfamiliar to American readers*. Most are suitable for adaptation to Christmas and other ornaments, can be sewn into quilts or pillows for a child's bedroom, or made into a nursery mobile. Recommended for any hobby seamstress looking for something striking and different. All projects are shown in B&W, with patterns for tracing. (*There's a pattern for a golliwog -- this was the 1950's).

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