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Heartfelt: 25 Projects for Stitched and Felted Accessories
Felt and felted accessories are hot! Teresa Searle shows how knitted and recycled knitted felt can be transformed into a wide range of unique accessories using simple decorative embroidery techniques and appliqué. The book starts with an introduction to the processes involved in the projects: -How to make felted knitting by hand or with a knitting machine -How to felt knitting and recycled sweaters in the washing machine -How to appliqué felt motifs using your sewing machine and other simple machine techniques -How to hand-appliqué using blanket stitch and other easy decorative stitches Then goes on to show step-by-step photos and complete directions for over 24 stunning projects including: Russian Hat & Pull-on Hat Bunny Slippers & Baby Coat Scarves & Mittens Handbags.& Purses 3-D Roses used for jewelry and other accessories With its full color photography and wide range of appealing projects this book will appeal to all the sewers, stitchers, crafters or quilters who want to learn how to make felted accessories and how to embellish. The smaller projects are easy to create- each project has a box indicating the time needed. In addition they present an opportunity to recycle pieces of flat knitting or sweaters by turning them into felted knitting and using the end results to create a wide variety of beautifully embellished projects for both adults and children. .
Price: $4.78
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Wild Women: Stitched Art Brooches (Twenty to Make)
Crafters and jewelry and textile artists will delight in the brooch projects in this guidebook that reveals how to make the basic shapes of lady brooches as well as how to embellish them to give each one a personality. These crafts focus on embroidery, beading, wiring, and threading for making fabulous, fun, unique pins. The instructions take the crafter from start to finish, offering 20 individual and distinct designs to create zany, funky, female-shaped jewelry. .
Price: $6.01
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Stitched Collage: Creative Effects on Paper and Fabric
Discover how to transform fabrics, papers, and embellishments into jaw-dropping collages that wouldn't look out of place in an art gallery! "Stitched Collage" shows readers how to create extraordinary collages starting with just a painted fabric or paper base. Learn easy painting techniques, clever hand and machine-stitching techniques, and how to decorate your project with stitched embellishments, including appliques, yarns, beads, and buttons..
Price: $9.91
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Bent, Bound And Stitched: Collage, Cards And Jewelry With A Twist
Just as they were with Collage Lost and Found, readers will be inspired by simply flipping through the pages of Bent, Bound & Stitched In addition to great-looking projects, numerous techniques are demonstrated which include adding texture to papers, combining different gauges of wire, reworking found objects into jewelry and using a basic silkscreen process. The author's projects are a unique blend of romantic collage, simplistic folk and industrial minimalism, which is what readers crave. The techniques featured can be applied across a variety of craft projects thus increasing the appeal of the book and providing endless inspiration to readers..
Price: $7.99
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Color on Color: Elegant Designs to Stitch (Simply Stitched series)
Bringing together simple techniques and beautiful natural fabrics with elegant but easy-to-work designs, this workbook offers first-time stitchers and experienced embroiderers alike a hands-on guide for injecting garments and accessories with a marvelous palette of color. Simple hand-worked embroidery, exquisite natural fabrics, and several cross-craft techniques combine to create 12 striking projects with 20 elegant and contemporary designs. The embroidery projects, each presented with step-by-step instructions and color illustrations, include a floral motif on a pair of Mexican-style espadrilles, a bull's-eye pillow created in multicolored wool appliqué, a beaded evening bag, a crazy patchwork cover for books and pillows, a heart appliqué quilt for a children's bed, traditional floral motifs for a shirt or pair of jeans, and a flame-stitch canvas pillow. .
Price: $13.22
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Machine-Stitched Cathedral Windows: Updating an Old Favorite
Now you can create Cathedral Windows completely by machine! If you’re short on time or a novice at handwork, you’ve probably passed this classic quilt pattern by. This exciting, all-new approach to Cathedral Windows uses a simple grid system to make the design faster to complete and more versatile than ever before. Discover how to: • Create 12 beautiful Cathedral Window quilts with step-by-step instructions, clear illustrations, and full-size templates • Use a special foundation-grid system to make unique, innovative designs not possible with traditional hand-sewing methods • Vary your fabric choices on three different levels--the window frames, window panes, and background--for intricate-looking results.
Price: $27.95
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Stitched Raw Edge Applique
Take your appliqu to a new level of ease. International prize-winning quiltmakers Sue Nickels and Pat Holly show just how easy it is to create beautiful finished quilt projects with their new fusing methods. Even fussy pieces have sharp points, neat edges, and no seam allowances to turn under. And best yet, the resulting quilts are soft and flexibleunlike many quilts made with traditional fusing methods.These two masters of machine quiltmaking show you tricks of the trade to make your own masterpiece. Even beginning appliqurs will find this method accessible and easy to learn. The book is liberally laced with illustrations. Pats Pointers and Sues Solutions provide handy hints to make the fusible appliqu even easier and more fun.A number of other techniques are served up to entice the quilter to enrich her quilts with simple embellishments, such as very narrow bias stems, couched thread details, and really tiny circles. Quilters learn to create their own embroidered background fabrics, embellished bindings, and looped edges, through five charming, fusible appliqu projects in the book..
Price: $14.66
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Heavenly Patchwork: Quilt Stories Stitched with Love
Heavenly Patchwork - Quilt Stories Stitched with Love will inspire and entertain as it transports you into the lives and hearts of pioneer and contemporary women. Rejoice or cry with those who homesteaded a hostile and barren landscape, struggled to survive and nurture their families through the Great Depression and Dust Bowl days or currently cope with our fast-paced society. These interesting - often amusing - vignettes will renew your hope, inspire your faith as these everyday heroines stitch true tales of courage against insurmountable obstacles into heart-warming patchwork. Each leaves behind a legacy of love and faith in God to future generations. Observe as each brave woman pieces brokeness into beauty and forges the way into a brighter tomorrow. Heavenly Patchwork tells the larger story of God's faithfulness to sustain, heal, comfort and strengthen women through hardships. All book profits go to non-profit groups that make charity quilts..
Price: $4.99
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