ON THE HOMEFRONT: A Designer’s Dwelling

Lauren McCutcheon gets us a sneak peek at Kayte Terry's cool pad

Surely there’s not cuter or craftier newbie South Philadelphian than Kayte Terry. Anthropologie display designing genius by day, Ms. Terry spends her evenings, weekends and whatnot whipping up some of the prettiest sewing projects around. Her new book, Appliqué Your Way, just came out from Chronicle Books. Examples of her adorably hip projects — handmade collages, tote bags, faux fireplace logs — are now on display (and, in some cases, for sale) at adorably hip JimmyStyle, in (where else but) adorably hip East Passyunk.

One glance through Kayte’s book, and we knew her home had to be the coolest. Lucky for us, Kayte kindly snapped a few photos so we — and you! — can get the creative juices flowing …