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Fusing Fabric
by Margaret Beal
Creative Cutting, Bonding and Mark-Making with the Soldering Iron - It's the latest and hottest idea in embroidery today, expanding the reach of textile art: the use of a soldering iron to cut, bond, and etch fabric. All the principal techniques are thoroughly explained, from choosing and cutting fabric to using three-dimensional materials. Includes photographs showing finished pieces and diagrams and drawings illustrating the process.
Product Details: Soft Cover, Color Photos, 8 1/2" x 11", 128 pages.
35687 $19.95
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Book on CD-ROM
Creating Texture with Textiles!
Award-winning designer and author, Linda McGehee shares her secrets for manipulating and embellishing fabric with a wide variety of techniques. Written for all levels of sewers, this user-friendly guide features step-by-step instructions to create spectacular one-of-a-kind designs on fabric with the use of any sewing machine. Full-color photography will inspire creativity by illustrating the uses of textiles with embellishment, manipulation of fabric and decorative stitches. Create your own unique garments, wall hangings and accessories with new variations of current techniques including piecing, spiraling, applique, piping, cording, crinkling, and beading, among others.
This book is presented on CD only and requires the free Adobe Reader program to view.
89081 $21.95
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Folded Fabric Elegance
by Rami Kim
Add excitement and dimension to your quilting with these traditional three-dimensional Korean folding techniques. These beguiling designs are meticulously illustrated and exquisitely executed. Other fabric manipulation methods range from American smocking to harlequin tucks, pinwheels, and more. Put your newly gained skills to work making a number of the projects provided including a wallhanging, pillows, purses, totes, and chargers complete with finishing instructions. For additional inspiration, many of Rami's elegant and award-winning ensembles are pictured. You ll be eager to incorporate these techniques into your own clothing and quilting projects.
Product Details: Soft Cover, Color Photos, 8 1/2" x 11", 96 pages.
33670 $22.95
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Embellishment Potpourri
Dozens of creative accents with fabric, threads and more!
Product Details: Soft Cover, Color Photos, 8 1/2" x 11", 24 pages.
33474 $17.99
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Sculpted Threads
Artful Brooches, Earrings, and More
Imagine earrings, a brooch, a bowl, a bag-all made out of yards of gorgeous, colorful threads! Sound impossible? Simply stitch threads onto water-soluble stabilizer; then immerse your project in water. Only dazzling threads remain. Sew multiple layers of thread to create amazing blends of color, depth, and dimension in eight projects, plus several variations. No special skills required-all you need are machine-embroidery threads and a home sewing machine. Embellish projects with beaded flowers, branches, lines, edgings, and more.
Product Details: Softcover, Color Photos, 8 1/2" x 10 3/4", 64 pages.
29510 $18.95
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Fabric Leftovers: Simple, Adaptable Ways to Use Up Scraps
Admit it-you have an ever-growing pile of scraps that are too good to throw away, but what can you do with them? 25 ideas ranging from two-minute button blooms to art-shop-quality journal covers are your answer. D'arcy-Jean's friendly, funny commentary will have you in stitches.
Product Details: Soft Cover, Color Photos, 8 1/2" x 11", 96 pages.
39365 $26.95
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Easy Embellishments for Creative Sewing
A wide range of interesting sewing projects featuring embellishments and sewing techniques...embroidery, embossing, patchwork, applique, faux chenille, stamping, stenciling, painting, felting and beading!
Product Details: Hard Cover w/ Hidden Spiral, Color Photos, 8 1/2" x 11", 176 pages.
30729 $24.95
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Stitched Textile Collage
Stitched Textile Collage presents 25 appliqued projects that are suitable to be framed and hung as artwork. This inspiring book offers a look at the use of textiles as a medium for creating innovative graphic artwork. Readers will find full-page photographs of each piece, step-by-step technique demonstrations, as well as a complete list of materials and stitches used in the projects.
Product Details: Softcover, Color Photos, 8 1/2 x 11", 128 pages.
30378 $22.99
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Dazzling Quilts
Take quilts from so-so to stunning with irresistible embellishments! Pair traditional quilt blocks with colorful floral applique; then add sparkling embellishments for a spritz of glitz and glamour. Create eight projects that look like art quilts but are amazingly easy to piece and applique. Choose from embellishments including metallic threads, luminous beads, iron-on crystals, and more. Find basic techniques for free-motion machine quilting, raw-edge applique, and finishing touches.
Product Details: Softcover, 8.5 " x 11", 96 pages.
30392 $24.95
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Thread Magic
The Enchanted World of Ellen Anne Eddy
Ellen Anne Eddy is an internationally known fiber artist whose wall art goes beyond the traditional concept of quilting. Fish, bugs, birds, and frogs are found throughout her art, blending her dreams and vision with the natural world. She uses hand-dyed fabrics, lames, machine embroidery, cut-away applique, and layered sheers to create the illusion of flames, water, and mist in her work. The chapters guide the reader step-by-step with everything from "Looking at Quilts" to "Rehabilitating Troubled Quilts". The gallery of quilts features both full images and detail shots. The photographs are bright and colorful, the illustrations clear and helpful. Ellen's quilts are divided into several series and themes, with each section offering her inspiration for that theme. It is Ellen's hope that by sharing her journey as an artist she can inspire her readers in their artistic journey.
Product Details: Soft Cover, Color Photos, 8 1/2" x 11", 112 pages.
30396 $29.95
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Quilt Toppings
Fun and Fancy Embellishment Techniques
Making a quilt is sometimes like baking a cake--all the fun is in the frosting! In Quilt Toppings, Melody Crust offers hundreds of ideas for embellishing quilts, showing that the fun doesn't have to stop after the quilt top is done. From fabric paints and acrylics to kindergarten-style fun with spray paints, paint sticks, and even crayons, inks, and foil, quilters learn how to add color, texture, and pizzazz. Chapters on beads and buttons, ribbons, tassels, and trims, and stitching and embroidery all invite quilters to play with a fun and fancy embellishments to bring amazing special effects to their quilts and wearable art. Hundreds of color photos of embellishment in action. Color, step-by-step drawings. Idea Gallery in every chapter, showcasing techniques.
Product Details: Softcover, Color photos and illus., 8.75 x 11", 144 pages.
28018 $29.95
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Creative Quilts
Inspiration, Texture & Stitch
In this practical and inspiring book, award-winning contemporary quilt artist Sandra Meech explains how to harness your own creativity to add innovation and depth to your quilt and embroidery work. She shows you how to take inspiration from a wealth of sources, including art, textiles and architecture, and gives special emphasis to journals and sketchbooks. The book also contains full instructions for a range of exciting techniques including surface embellishment, mixed-media techniques, and taking quilt work into three dimensions, plus practical advice on exhibiting work. Special 'Creativity Plus' and 'Design Workshop' exercises help you to develop confidence in your own creativity. Illustrated with work from the world's leading quilt and textile artists, this book is both a practical workbook and a precious source of inspiration. Subjects covered include: Exploring Creativity. Finding a Theme, Design, Pattern and Composition, Texture and Dimension, A Professional Approach.
Product Details: Hardcover, Color photos, 8.75 x 11", 128 pages.
28017 $24.95
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Beginner's Guide to Art Quilts
Art quilts are all about experimenting -- using new and exciting techniques, fun and unusual supplies, and coloring variations. This book from Banar Designs will show you how to create your very own, whether you're an experienced quilter, a paper artist, or a beginning crafter. Just follow the step-by-step photos and instructions to learn easy sewing and quilting techniques, fast and fun fabric dyeing and painting, photo transferring, embellishing, hand and machine embroidery, free-motion stitching, rubber stamping, velvet stamping, and more. There also are some Artist Trading Card and postcard quilts shown. Browse the gallery of example art quilts demonstrating various techniques, then get out your fabric scraps, buttons, ribbons, and whatever you have on hand. You'll see how much fun it can be to express yourself with fabric.
Product Details: Softcover, Color photos, 8.5 x 11", 68 pages.
28014 $13.95
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Jazzy Jeans
by Mickey Baskett
Just look at the price tag for some designer jeans: they're over the top! Fortunately, there's an easy, inexpensive, and fun way to jazz up ordinary denim so it's practically red-carpet ready: these techniques for distressing, embroidering, beading, painting, sewing, and studding turn jeans, pants, skirts, and vests into one-of-a-kind high fashion. Bleach and batik, add applique and lace, adorn with doilies and toile, embellish with ruffles and rhinestones, and give garments a leather monogram, western flare, or rows of shisha sequins. For each cool design idea, be it a swirl skirt or funky flowers on a jacket, there's basic information and a photo, along with projects and patterns. Or, for something different, transform clothing into fringed bags, pretty pillows, and decorated journal covers.
Product Details: Hardcover, Color Photos, 11 1/4" x 9", 128 pages.
27807 $24.95
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Creative Embellishments: For Paper, Jewelry, Fabric and More
by Sherril Kahn
How do you add sophistication and style to craft projects with shrink plastic, rubber stamps, and fun foam? Look to this bestselling author for a bounty of advice in this technique-packed book-then get ready to play! Discover dozens of imaginative embellishments made from paper, fabric, plastic, clay, and more. Spotlight these color-splashed embellishments on quilts, garments, journals, and any other project you make. Create art without expensive supplies-over 150 photographs show you how.
Product Details: Soft Cover, Color Photos, 8 1/2" x 11", 112 pages.
27810 $27.95
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Fast, Fun & Easy Book Cover Art: Add a Quilted Fabric Touch to Binders, Scrapbooks, Journals & More
by Jake Finch
Don't put your precious pages in that boring binder! Learn to make quilted book covers for scrapbooks and journals that are special enough for what is inside. You won't believe the gorgeous effects you can achieve with fabrics and a bit of fast2fuse Double-Sided Fusible Stiff Interfacing! Showcase one special fabric, or try patchwork, applique, beads, buttons, embroidery, and a variety of clever closures.
Product Details: Soft Cover, Color Photos, 8 1/2" x 11", 48 pages.
27690 $15.95
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New Techinques for Wearable Art
Creative ideas for transforming clothes and accessories.
Product Details: Softcover, Color Photos, 8 1/2" x 11", 128 pages.
27623 $22.99
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The Vintage Workshop Art-to-Wear:
100 Images & 40 Projects to Personalize Fashion
by Amy Barickman
Love the look of image embellishment? It's within your reach with this collection of images ranging from sweet vintage to exotic to funky to boldly graphic. Learn easy techniques for image transfer, and then check out the dozens of projects with complete, step-by-step instructions. Warning: once you start incorporating images into your wearable creations, you'll find it hard to stop! CD included.
Product Details: Soft Cover, Color Photos, 8 1/2" x 11", 128 pages.
21545 $29.95
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Glitz It With Glitter
Add sparkle to your stitched projects in no time using a few basic tools and supplies. Using glitter on the fabulous projects in this book will add details, emphasize design elements, give a touch of class and add pizzazz.
Product Details: Softcover, Color Photos/Illus, 8 1/2 x 11", 32 pages.
Be sure to see the Art Glitter Kits!
34300 $10.95
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