Sew Wild

Sew Wild
Author: Alisa Burke
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2013-05-15
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1620333201

Sew Wild liberates you! Enjoy unlimited freedom to color, pattern, and customize your own fabric with fun, spectacular results. Get wild with printing, painting, drawing, stenciling, and other surface design methods and unique materials such as plastic bags, photographs, and cardboard. Dive into 12 simple sewing projects to make colorful, wearable, and hip designs, including a stunning wall quilt, adorable hats for kids or adults, a pretty wreath, cuff bracelets, and a modern ruffled apron. Artist Alisa Burke demonstrates many of the techniques and essentials of surface design and sewing on an included DVD. In addition to the in-depth video instruction, you'll get a bonus project exclusively on the DVD. Whether you're already a rule-breaker or you're looking to improvise, Sew Wild shows you how to create fabric and designs that explode with color, pattern, and soul.

Wild Things to Sew and Wear

Wild Things to Sew and Wear
Author: Molly Goodall
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2014-10-01
Genre: Children's clothing
ISBN: 9780711236011

Wild Things to Sew and Wear is a collection of 15 animal-inspired designs that are as fun to make as they are to wear – simple, bold and playful clothes and accessories that children of all ages won’t want to take off. A comprehensive techniques section shows you how to lay out pattern pieces on the fabric, transfer markings, and cut with confidence. The easy-to-follow patterns suit all levels, from beginner to advanced, and include a range of sizes, including matching designs for adults. Creating clothing which inspires play, author Molly Goodall uses classic tailoring techniques mixed with contemporary styling – the perfect projects for imaginative crafters looking for something unique.

Sew Any Fabric

Sew Any Fabric
Author: Claire Shaeffer
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2003-11-10
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1440220336

Fabric Basics at Your Fingertips Have you ever wished you could call an expert and ask for a five-minute explanation on the particulars of a fabric you are sewing? Claire Shaeffer provides this key information for 88 of today's most popular fabrics. In this handy, easy-to-follow reference, she guides you through all the basics while providing hints, tips, and suggestions base don her 20-plus years as a college instructor, pattern designers, and author. In each concise chapter, Claire shares fabric facts, design ideas, workroom secrets, and her sewing checklist, as well as her sewability classification to advice you on the difficulty of sewing each fabric. Color photographs offer further ideas. The succeeding sections offer sewing techniques and advice on needles, threads, stabilizers, and interfacings. Claire's unique fabric/fiber dictionary cross-reference over 600 additional fabrics. An invaluable reference for any one who sews, Sew Any Fabric provides practical, clear information for novices and inspiration for more experienced sewers who are looking for new ideas and techniques.

Hip to Stitch

Hip to Stitch
Author: Melinda Barta
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2013-05-01
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1620333074

Ideas for embellishing beautiful garments and home decor to add personal touches are presented with easy, step-by-step instructions, illustrations, and 38 stitch techniques and 20 hand-embroidered projects, in this stylish stitching how-to. Included are motifs to dress up a skirt, day tripper bags, a guitar pick case, a picnic baby bib, a butterfly picture frame, hand-embroidered pillows, stitched note cards, and heirloom scrapbooks. Throughout the book are helpful tips and hints such as hiding knots and thread tails, sewing a pocket, making durable stitches, and working with silk and wire. In addition to teaching the basics, this guide can make projects ambitious by experimenting with stitches and the number and placement of motifs so that even experienced stitchers will find renewed inspiration for embroidery.

Sew a Backyard Adventure

Sew a Backyard Adventure
Author: Susan Maw
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2013-03-19
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1607056682

Get your kids camping, playing, and exploring with 21 fun-to-make projects that provide countless hours of indoor and outdoor enjoyment for both boys and girls. Everything you need to outfit a child to go adventuring is here: backpacks, teepees, sleeping bags, sun hats, cargo vests and shorts, outdoor-themed bedroom sets with quilts, and much more. The whole family will also enjoy the bonus nature-themed crafts and recipes for camp treats like Peanut Butter S’Mores. • Encourage children to put down their electronics and discover the joy of the outdoors • Projects include detailed, step-by-step instructions and template patterns • Bonus activities include finger puppets and reference cards for identifying animal tracks

Thimbleberries Oh Sew Cozy Flannel Quilts

Thimbleberries Oh Sew Cozy Flannel Quilts
Author: Lynette Jensen
Publisher: Publishing Solutions, LLC
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2004
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781932533040

From fabric designer, author, and quilting expert Lynette Jensen comes the coziest quilt book ever. Over 20 quilting projects using the famous Thimbleberries designs bring flannel into a whole new spectrum, as both a fashionable and practical fabric. Color photos & illustrations throughout.

365 Fun-to-stitch Quilt Blocks

365 Fun-to-stitch Quilt Blocks
Author: Jeanne Stauffer
Publisher: Annie's
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2001-12-26
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781882138784

Stitch a block each day of the year and you'll have hours of fun all year long. You'll love creating these 365 blocks to make bed quilts, samplers, tote bags, pillows and more. Join the block-a-day quilters! Book jacket.