Synopses & Reviews
How can you make all of the home decorating and clothing projects that you sew chic and stylish? With fabric design and embellishment techniques that add a personal touch. Embroidery, pleats, and tucks...that's just the start. Applique, beading, silk painting...you'll be able to do these like a professional. Photo transfer, stamping, velvet embossing...don't stop there! The beautiful designs that you can either free-stitch or simply trace, cut, and sew include a lovely quilted vine pattern. Construct chenille blocks and use them as a basis for a colorful coat. Bring out the beads and embroider them into shimmering dragonfly shapes--and much more, too! Bonus: a gallery selection from acclaimed artists who make their living enhancing fabrics.
Synopsis
How can you make all of the home decorating and clothing projects that you sew chic and stylish? With fabric design and embellishment techniques that add a personal touch. Embroidery, pleats, and tucks...that's just the start. Applique, beading, silk painting...you'll be able to do these like a professional. Photo transfer, stamping, velvet embossing...don't stop there! The beautiful designs that you can either free-stitch or simply trace, cut, and sew include a lovely quilted vine pattern. Construct chenille blocks and use them as a basis for a colorful coat. Bring out the beads and embroider them into shimmering dragonfly shapes--and much more, too! Bonus: a gallery selection from acclaimed artists who make their living enhancing fabrics.
Synopsis
“Add your personal touch to...classic techniques to applique, embroidery, and beading, as well as the recently popular silk fabric painting, stamping and velvet embossing.”—
Vogue Patterns. “Innovative techniques and elegant presentation set this book apart from other volumes on fabric embellishment.”—
Sew News.