Quilt Book Review: Diary in Stitches

C&T Publishing sent me an ebook copy of Diary in Stitches  by Minki Kim to Review.  This came about the time I got all those other quilt books to review and let me tell you, for me, this book was the stand out and one I most wanted to get.

This book is said to be Zakka style. I didn’t know what the heck that meant so I checked it out.  According to Google: “(from the Japanese ‘kak-ka in de zak-ka’（閣下 雑貨）or ‘many things’) is a fashion and design phenomenon that has spread from Japan throughout Asia. The term refers to everything and anything that improves your home, life and appearance.”

I could classify this as Zakka for sure.  The little projects in the book are so cute and even me, the non-putzy girl, would like to give some of these a try.

I’ll be honest…I wasn’t very impressed with C&T’s website.  They didn’t provide many pictures for me to show off the book to you.  I ended up googling around to try to find a few for you…but still no luck.  Any of the projects that they did show are not the ones I was attracted too.  BUMMER for all of you.  I guess that puts the pressure on me to try to make one of those cute ones so I can show it to you!!

The projects did “make me smile” like the back cover says.

I ended up bringing the book up on my computer and then taking a couple pictures of some of my favorite projects.

I sewing machine cover….

an illustration that could be a wall hanging….

Another….

A cute little pear motif.  

I’m excited about the book and would like to do a couple projects from it…or at least try my hand at this “machine embroidery”.

I ended up liking the book so much that I ended up on a goose chase on the internet and found out she did another book…This one….
Sew Illustrated.

This one had projects I loved too.

What a cute basket….

I love the bag with the typewriter….

The sewing machine pincushion…TOTALLY ADORABLE!!!

If I were to buy one book…I’m not sure which I would buy.  I think Diary in Stitches…I don’t know.  Sew Illustrated is wonderful too.  I really do want to give this a try….it’s just too cute not to.

You can find the author’s blog here.