What sets apart high style from simply “decorating” the home is the selection of materials and the details that distinguish them. The way those ingredients are put together makes all the difference.

Habibe Acikgoz. St. Martin’s Griffin, $24.99 trade paper with CD (128p) ISBN 978-1-250-02365-0 Sewing pattern books often stop at size 16, so this volume, which includes some patterns aimed for women ...

Jenny Rushmore has been running Cashmerette, a sewing blog and pattern company aimed at women who wear plus-size clothing full-time for a year now. She started the blog in 2010 simply to track her own ...

Sewing — by machine and by hand — was prominently featured among this year’s craft books. Many titles were geared toward quilters, and others were for children who want to sew clothes, gifts and ...