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Making Faces in Fabric
Learn appliqué techniques to create a face and add it to any textile craft project. Discover how to create freeform, raw-edge appliqué faces using Melissa Averinos’s fun, creative process. Melissa walks you through the process step by step, from a comprehensive lesson on drawing the face, to translating your sketch into fabric, to stabilizing the piece with stitching, to incorporating your stylized face into a finished project, whether it’s a pillow, tote, shirt, or stretched canvas! Learn how to make a variety of eyes, noses, lips, hair, and face shapes, as well as how to create facial features in just the right proportions. You’ll be amazed by how good the final portrait looks! • Personalize your fabric collage! Learn several different ways of creating facial features • Comprehensive lessons on fabric choices, color, and shading • Includes inspirational galleries of work from Melissa and her students
Small Stash Sewing
25 projects to make the most of designer fat quarters Sewing with designer fat quarters is a great way to stretch your dollar without sacrificing quality. Now, Melissa Averinos, the face behind the popular Yummy Goods blog and one of the newest Free Spirit fabric designers, brings you a collection of projects dedicated specifically to making the most of your designer fat quarters. From belts to handbags, from children‘s gifts to a laundry hamper bag, and much, much more, Small Stash Sewing gives you 25 sewing projects to make unique pieces that showcase your favorite, longed-for designer fabrics. Gorgeous full-color photography throughout Sewing with designer fat quarters is budget-friendly and hip Melissa’s blog, yummygoods.com, is read by thousands of dedicated fans If you’re a veteran sewer looking to use up your existing stash of fabrics or are new to sewing and want to experiment with designer fabrics without breaking the bank, Sewing with Fat Quarters gives you the skills and know-how to create 25 stunning pieces that give new life to your home and fashion style. Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.
DIY Mason Jars
Stop jamming up your cupboards with empty Mason jars! With DIY Mason Jars, you'll find everything you need to make one-of-a-kind creations with everyone's favorite jar. Featuring step-by-step instructions and four-color photographs, this book will kickstart your creativity with thirty-five imaginative projects that will add a pop of fun to any room. It also includes darling label designs that turn ordinary containers into whimsical centerpieces and gifts you won't be able to find anywhere else. From the kitchen windowsill to your back porch, you'll be inspired to pep up your home with original crafts, like: Pendant lighting Reed diffuser Sprouting jars Homespun soap dispenser So whether you're looking for an adorable way to brighten up a room or the perfect little solution for your odds and ends, these Mason jar crafts will leave a lasting impression in any space!
Soulful Stitch
A thoughtful, meditative guide to the ways creative textile art can soothe and comfort us during challenging times. Renowned British textile artists Cas Holmes and Deena Beverley, each well known for their richly textured, deeply evocative work in stitch, collaborate for the first time in this important and timely book. Beautifully illustrated with a wealth of work from both artists along with other embroiderers and textile artists from around the world, Soulful Stitch documents a wide range of stitched responses to crisis, both personal and global. With invaluable advice on how to develop your own work in times of trouble, it explores: • How the restrictions and trials of everyday life ca...
Purr-fect Patchwork
Cat-loving quilters mew-nite! Embrace your inner cat lady with contemporary cat-themed projects! Play with texture and style to create 16 unique projects from bags and decor to 7 different patchwork quilts. Each project includes step-by-step instructions guiding stitchers on a variety of techniques from foundation paper piecing to free-motion embroidery. Also learn how to play with different substrates such as cotton, linen, wool, wool-blended felt, denim, vinyl, and repurposed clothing. From beginners to more experienced, there is something new to learn for every stitcher. The paw-sibilities are endless! Make the most of your feline fabrics and craft 16 original cat-themed quilts and textile projects Use dozens of techniques from basic piecing, hand embroidery, and machine sewing for a vintage-meets-modern aesthetic Experiment with different textiles and fabrics to create bags, accessories, home decor, and quilts
DIY Wine Corks
Uncork stunning DIY projects! Pop open a bottle of wine! Break out your glue gun! DIY Wine Corks offers 35+ one-of-a-kind crafts of all varietals. Featuring easy-to-follow instructions and tips on personalizing your design, this book guides you through every step of your wine cork project, allowing you to create unique pieces every time. From wall art to jewelry to holiday decor, each of these crafts will put leftover wine corks to use by transforming the simple throwaway into stunning creations like: Chalkboard menu Retro sunburst mirror Vintage cork necklace Owl zipper pull Gift tags Complete with beautiful full-color photographs, DIY Wine Corks encourages you to stop and smell the rose with these creative wine cork crafts!
The Appliqué Book
Peek inside the design process with today’s modern quilters. Learn the secrets to fearless, modern appliqué! Top appliqué designers share 16 innovative projects with full-size patterns. Master 7 classic techniques from invisible machine appliqué to bias tape design, each with step-by-step instructions that make it easy to learn. Then, peek inside the design process with profiles of 9 award-winning quilters, inspiring you to rethink the bounds of appliqué. • 16 innovative appliqué projects with full-size patterns • Master 7 skills from raw edge and needle-turn appliqué to reverse appliqué, Broderie Perse, and free-form methods • Projects from 12 of today’s modern designers: Jenna Brand, Shannon Brinkley, Vanessa Christenson, Jenifer Dick, Debbie Grifka, Lynn Harris, Rossie Hutchinson, Allison Rosen, Latifah Saafir, Beth Vassalo, Casey York, and Betz White • Profiles of award-winning artists: Bari J. Ackerman, Melissa Averinos, Sarah Fielke, Carolyn Friedlander, Alison Glass, LUKE Haynes, Chawne Kimber, Kevin Kosbab, and Denyse Schmidt
Sewn Hats
35 hat patterns for every age, gender, and fashion sense Sewn Hats is a collaboration of hat designs from 29 of the industry's most-loved fabric designers, pattern designers, and bloggers. The collection features a variety of hat patterns for all genders, sizes, ages, and fashion sense. Seamstresses will find options in a vast array of styles that use a wide variety of fabric types, from felt to silk, corduroy to cotton, and everything in between. Beautiful photography, inspiring writing, precise instructions, adaptable patterns, and a vast array of styles and sizes all combine to equal a collection of sewn hat patterns like no other. Hat patterns for all genders, sizes, ages, and styles Hat...
A Field Guide to Fabric Design
A comprehensive, step-by-step resource for fabric design and printing—including tips from top designers. If you’ve ever dreamed of showing your designs on fabric, textile aficionado Kim Kight, of popular blog True Up, is here to teach you how. Comprehensive and refreshingly straightforward, this impressive volume features two main parts. First, the Design and Color section explains the basics with step-by-step tutorials on creating repeating patterns both by hand and on the computer. Next, the Printing section guides you through transferring those designs on fabric—whether it's block printing, screen printing, digital printing or licensing to a fabric company—and how to determine the best method for you. Includes extensive photos and illustrations
The Farmer's Wife Sampler Quilt
Be Inspired by the Stories The 1922, The Farmer's Wife magazine posed this question to their readers: "If you had a daughter of marriageable age, would you, in light of your own experience, have her marry a farmer?" The magazine at the time had 750,000 subscribers, and received over 7,000 letters. The best answers to this question are included in this book, along with the traditional quilt blocks they inspired. Laurie Aaron Hird provides everything you need to be inspired and create your own sampler quilt: • 111 six-inch quilt blocks, with assembly diagrams for piecing the blocks and template cutting directions • Complete instruction for making a sampler quilt in any traditional size: lap, twin, queen or king • Download access to easy-to-print, full-sized templates for all 111 blocks, and printable quilt construction diagrams • 42 letters from the 1922 Farmer's Wife contest to give you a priceless glimpse into our country's past
