Making your own soft furnishings is an inexpensive and surprisingly simple way of transforming your home. Soft Furnishings & Designer Trims, with step-by-step illustrated instructions for a host of attractive projects, shows you just how easy redecorating can be.

Including projects for making fitted sheets and plain pillowcases, Roman shades and pinch pleat curtains, slip covers and basic table linen.

Along with chair covers that can be made in under an hour, a stenciled comforter, a child's beanbag, no-sew lampshades and every conceivable pillow style.

A section on designer trims, devoted to those special finishing touches, completes the home-decorating picture.