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Jennie Ashmore shows you how to make the most of the rediscovered pressed flower art, from choice of flowers (including roses, oak leaves and seaweed), the various ways of pressing them, designing with pressed flowers and leaves, achieving symmetry, the use of colou, and combining pressed flowers with watercolour and gouache, painted background and gold and silver paper.
This highly experienced author gives a range of insider tips from using the ribs of leaves to create pattern and movement, pressing both sides of a leaf and capturing the seasons in one piece of work. She also provides templates to help you get started. A plant directory at the back of the book allows you to see what various plants look like when pressed.
A stunningly beautiful book that opens up a traditional art to a very contemporary expression for all crafters and nature lovers.
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Throwing away holey, yet beloved, clothes can sometimes be one of the saddest things, but what if you were able to fix those holes and extend their life? With Mend & Patch, you can learn to take care of your clothes, mending, patching and repairing so you can cherish all your garments.
This book arms you with the skills and ideas you need to mend your own clothes, truly making and keeping them your own, whatever the wear and tear. Find out emergency tips for mending in a hurry, enhance your clothes with decorative 'mends' and learn to mend for and with different materials, including leather, cotton, wool, silk and of course, denim.
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Strafford Manor is a true masterpiece that celebrates Judy Newman's family heritage.
The quilt is made from cherished fabrics collected over many years and combines piecing, English paper-piecing, appliqué and Broderie Perse with a joyous and colourful menu of these fabrics. The package contains a detailed instruction booklet and full-size pattern templates.
From Quiltmania with text in English and French.
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Warning! These blocks can be addictive! Rachaeldaisy's fantastical quilts are composed of never before seen, folded fabric blocks. Her designs are colourful and whimsical circles made of Prairie Points using all types of fabrics – from silk, taffeta, silk organza, recycled shirts, hankies and linen – and then she embellishes them with doilies, yo-yo’s, rickrack, buttons ... you name it!
The result is an explosion of trendy and Bohemian quilts. The book includes15 projects plus 10 models of blocks with tips and tricks from Rachaeldaisy.
From Quiltmania with text in English and French.
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From politics to poetry, using fabric and letters to say something on quilt tops is the hottest trend in quilting today. Quilters everywhere are excitedly incorporating their favourite phrases, song lyrics, inspirational words, political statements, simple personalizations – or an entire alphabet – on their projects.
The alphabets in this book encourage complete freedom to piece one-of-a-kind quilts using the structure of the patterns that Sarah Fielke provides. More than just a collection of letters, the book has something for everyone, from paper-piecing to appliqué to improv, in six alphabets that let you create symmetrical chunky block lettering, sophisticated cursive and whimsical pieced letters – all supplied in both lower and upper case.
Quilters will love having the structure of patterns with the possibility of total customization.
About the Author Sarah Fielke is an award winning quilt designer from Sydney, NSW. Sarah's quilts have roots in both modern and traditional quilting, making her a firm favourite with quilters new and old. She describes her quilts as "contemporary traditional". Sarah teaches extensively worldwide and is a vocal and involved member of the quilting community.
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Bojagi, sometimes called Pojagi, is a traditional Korean textile art. Centuries old, it was originally textiles made for every day living with scraps of left-over fabrics artfully put together. They often resemble works of modern artists such as Mondrian and Klee. Today, the technique now produces beautiful textiles that are fast influencing textile art in the West, particularly amongst quilters.
Using her own work and the work of other artists, leading expert on the subject Sara Cook demonstrates the techniques and how modern textilers can interpret the principles of Bojagi creatively. The book covers a brief history and understanding of Bojagi in Korean culture, then covers:
- Fabrics and sewing equipment (incl. silk, hemp and ramie)
- Obanseak – technique and designs of bojagi colours and symbolism
- Colour Seams and Embellishments
- Jagokbo – textiles pieced from tiny scraps.
A beautiful book offering textile artists and quilters a range of ideas to use in their own work.
About the Author Sara Cook is a textile artist, teacher and judge who established the Patchwork and Quilting courses at the Brighton Fashion and Textile School. She regularly contributes to articles for magazines, has worked as technical editor for several quilting books, and is a qualified Quilt Judge at the Quilt Festival. She regularly attends the Korean Bojagi Forum in Seoul, where she is having a solo exhibition of her work and giving a lecture.
$44.99
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Strafford Manor is a true masterpiece that celebrates Judy Newman's family heritage.
The quilt is made from cherished fabrics collected over many years and combines piecing, English paper-piecing, appliqué and Broderie Perse with a joyous and colourful menu of these fabrics. The package contains a detailed instruction booklet and full-size pattern templates.
From Quiltmania with text in English and French.
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Discover the beautiful Japanese pattern darning technique kogin and how it can be used to create stunning stitched and quilted projects. Kogin is a variation of the popular Japanese embroidery technique sashiko and is rapidly becoming as popular as its 'big sister'.
Japanese embroidery expert, Susan Briscoe, has compiled a collection of over 60 pattern charts – kogin is a counted embroidery technique – and 12 accompanying projects to create The Ultimate Kogin Collection, following on from her classic title The Ultimate Sashiko Sourcebook. The projects range from small and very accessible items such as simple greetings cards and coasters to larger projects including wall hangings and table runners.
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Ever since her ground-breaking book Viking Patterns for Knitting was published, Elsebeth Lavold has been recognised as one of the world’s leading experts on cabling. In that book, described as an indispensable milestone in 20th century knitting literature, she introduces her own innovation, using lifted increases to create interlace patterns instead of just to shape garments, and to bring new life to the ornamental heritage of the Vikings as adornment on modern knitwear.
With more than a decade of added experience and continued research, she is now ready to take the concept a step further. Still firmly based in her Scandinavian roots, she has studied cultures from all over the globe to find similar types of patterns. This has resulted in a fascinating compilation of ornamental expressions, ancient as well as contemporary, that she uses as a launch pad for her own unique designs.
In addition to the abundance of beautiful garments presented in the book with complete instructions, the author has analysed a huge number of pattern types and displays them in both swatch and chart form, to allow you to make your own designs based on her research.
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Warning! These blocks can be addictive! Rachaeldaisy's fantastical quilts are composed of never before seen, folded fabric blocks. Her designs are colourful and whimsical circles made of Prairie Points using all types of fabrics – from silk, taffeta, silk organza, recycled shirts, hankies and linen – and then she embellishes them with doilies, yo-yo’s, rickrack, buttons ... you name it!
The result is an explosion of trendy and Bohemian quilts. The book includes15 projects plus 10 models of blocks with tips and tricks from Rachaeldaisy.
From Quiltmania with text in English and French.
$69.99