About Issue #6
Here's the go-to digital publication that inspires, educates and connects HYSC fans, celebrating their talent and sense of community!
There's a lot stored in issue #6! You can enjoy exclusive projects: by Debbie Shore and the design team, as well as guest designers Debbie's daughter, Kimberley Hind and Jenniffer Taylor. These include:
- A no-pattern boho blouse
- A no pattern skirt
- A cheese and wine set for summer evenings
- A beach towel bag
- Fabric postcards
Want to make the blouse from the cover? It's live on our site from 22nd July, keep your eyes peeled!
Interviews:
We're so excited to chat to Kimberley about her role behind the scenes on the Debbie Shore wesbite and here at Half Yard Sewing Club too. She even shares her no-pattern blouse project with us and discusses her brand new book The Pattern-Free Wardrobe. Don't forget you can use your member discount to get it for £30% off.
Tilly and the Buttons joins us to share her top tips on taking your dressmaking to the next level. Whilst Lauren Guthrie pops in for a chat about her amazing sewing journey. And that's not all! The stitching queen herself Esme Young tells us how to transform garments. Can you tell we're excited about Sewing Bee!
Prizes and giveaways:
There's also the opportunity to win £565 worth of exciting prizes!, Get your hands on tickets to a Knit + Stitch show of your choice, a sewing bundle from Debbie, book bundles and even a £50 voucher to spend on your favourite craft books.
What's inside?
- Welcome from Debbie & Member Discounts – page 2
- Team Talk: featuring Kimberley – page 3
- Member Makes – pages 4-5
- Sew Like a Pro: an interview with Tilly and the Buttons – pages 6-7
- Inspirational Reads – page 8
- Guest Designer Project: No-Pattern Boho Blouse from Kimberley's new book The Pattern-Free Wardrobe – pages 9-11
- Tailor Made: Esme Young's tip on transforming garments – pages 12-13
- Threads of Life: one member shares how sewing has helped her through tricky times – pages 14-15
- Guest Designer Project: Judy Skirt from Jenniffer Taylor's Your Skirt, Your Way – pages 16-17
- Creatively Speaking: this issue we chat to Lauren Guthrie – pages 18-19
- Time to Win! – pages 20-21
- Quilting Through the Years: get a bonus disocunt on a quilitng book and win a prize! – page 22
- Project: Cheese and wine set – pages 23-25
- Project: Beach towel bag – pages 26-27
- Project: Fabric postcards – pages 28-29
- Member Perks: make sure you're getting all your freebies! – page 30
- Debbie's Final Word – page 31
- Bonus project: get a wrap skirt project – page 32
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About Debbie Shore
Debbie Shore is a best-selling and award-winning author. She began her career as a children's television presenter and since then has appeared regularly as an actress in various popular dramas and as a presenter on shopping channels. Debbie has developed her own range of fabrics, designed her own patterns, writes for several popular sewing magazines and has written over 30 books for Search Press with several more underway. Over 800,000 copies of her books have been sold worldwide. She is the winner of Craft Influencer of the Year 2020 in the Craft Business Awards, and Social Media Influencer of the Year 2019 in the British Sewing Awards.
Debbie has over 285,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel, which has over 30 million views. In 2018, Debbie launched her Half Yard Sewing Club, a monthly subscription service based on the mega-selling Half Yard series, and won the 2019 IPG Digital Publishing Award. For more details about the club visit
www.halfyardsewingclub.com.
Debbie lives in Lincolnshire, UK. Visit her website: www.debbieshoresewing.com
About Half Yard Sewing Club
About the Half Yard™ Sewing Club
Based on TV personality Debbie Shore's best-selling series of books, the Half Yard™ Sewing Club is an online subscription platform full of sewing projects to sink your needles into!
- Download up to 5 sewing projects each month, with full instructions, patterns, and informative videos.
- Join Debbie's live Q&As and learn her sewing room secrets.
- Create your own online notebook to keep track of your projects.
- Membership costs just £7.99 a month, or get a whole year's membership for just £80 - that's two whole months for free!