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A compilation of 365 free-motion designs from best-selling author Leah Day, this sturdy, spiral-bound calendar is built to last, for years of enjoyment and inspiration. From blocks to sashing to borders, you’ll find hundreds of filler designs perfect for all of the different areas of your quilt. Trace the design to practice, or visit www.LeahDay.com/365 to find video tutorials for each of the designs. Challenge yourself to memorize – not mark – each new design!
- A new free-motion quilting design for every day of the year!
- Break out of your stippling rut – high-quality photos of each meticulously stitched design
- Treasury of ideas and inspiration you’ll return to year after year
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Anne Kelly explores the traditional motifs used in textile folk art and shows you how contemporary textile artists use these in their work today. Featuring step-by-step projects as well as work from contemporary artists and makers throughout, this practical and beautiful guide shows how practitioners of all kinds can draw from folk art for making and inspiration.
The book features sections on:
- Samplers in Stitch – handmade momentoes and souvenirs created in the UK and USA
- Nordic Notes – traditional Scandinavian textile art, and how modern screen printing and embroidery have been used by contemporary makers
- Silk Road – the influence of nomadic cultures and textiles, including yurts in Mongolia and Miao folklore in China
- Trees of Life – the motif of the tree in a variety of cultures
The author also looks at traditional techniques from South Asia and how to create your own Family Tree using photo transfers and appliqué.
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In Botanical Painting, the Society of Botanical Artists provides a comprehensive guide to the different styles and methods of botanical painting, harvesting the talent of both Members and Distance Learning Diploma Course students around the world, past and present. The book is beautifully illustrated throughout, with comprehensive critiques on the artworks and step-by-step demonstrations.
The book iincludes more advanced techniques and materials and demonstrates how these skills can be used to develop your own expertise. There are chapters on drawing with graphite and metal point, coloured pencil, vellum, egg tempera, body and watercolour in plant portraiture and illustration. The inclusion of the historic methods used for egg tempera and metal point, as well as the technique required for working on vellum, makes this a valuable source of advice on subjects not readily available elsewhere.
The gallery of paintings at the end of the book provides a guided walk around an SBA exhibition and is sure to excite and inspire.
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Stitch 12 exquisite embroidery projects with original fauna and flora designs in a variety of threads and colours to create a 3D effect.
The book is filled with novel concepts in mixed-media embroidery and offers many interpretations and techniques, with striking examples of textured finishes. Lavishly illustrated with beautiful, commissioned photographs, it offers 12 colour themes to help embroiderers understand and play colour, along with inspiring projects to encourage them to produce their own creative work. Also included are an extensive stitch glossary and templates for the designs.
Previously published as Embroidered Flora & Fauna.
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Have a ball blending cottons with rich wools, lustrous silks and textural home decor fabrics for quilts that beg to be touched. Mix unconventional textiles together like a pro with the best advice for cutting, sewing and pressing fabrics with texture and sheen. Dimensional and exciting, mixed-fabric quilts are ripe for using up scraps and expanding your horizons!
- Mix eclectic fabric types – cottons, wools, silks and home decor – for quilts that wow
- Discover how to best cut, press and piece any fabric, regardless of fibre content
- Quilt 14 pieced and appliquéd pillows, quilts and small projects with adventurous fabric pairings
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Enjoy Sue Spargo's captivating work all year long in this spectacular wall calendar.
Sue's quilts shine in big, beautiful photographs that are so realistic that when you hang the calendar, it actually looks like a quilt on the wall! Owners of the calendar will want to slow the days to savor each amazing stitch. Patterns not included.
$34.99
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From classic chic to fresh farmhouse, the versatility of the table runner shines in this collection of all-new projects. Thirteen designs include scrappy stars for the dinner table, sweet pineapples and savoury olives for alfresco dining, a clever hexagon runner that instantly transforms into place mats, and more!
Fun and easy techniques range from traditional patchwork and fusible appliqué to stitch-and-flip triangles and dimensional curves. Get double the enjoyment when you use these beautiful pieces as wall hangings or as accents to drape on other kinds of "table" tops, such as dressers, bookshelves, hutches and cabinet doors.
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Anne Kelly explores the traditional motifs used in textile folk art and shows you how contemporary textile artists use these in their work today. Featuring step-by-step projects as well as work from contemporary artists and makers throughout, this practical and beautiful guide shows how practitioners of all kinds can draw from folk art for making and inspiration.
The book features sections on:
- Samplers in Stitch – handmade momentoes and souvenirs created in the UK and USA
- Nordic Notes – traditional Scandinavian textile art, and how modern screen printing and embroidery have been used by contemporary makers
- Silk Road – the influence of nomadic cultures and textiles, including yurts in Mongolia and Miao folklore in China
- Trees of Life – the motif of the tree in a variety of cultures
The author also looks at traditional techniques from South Asia and how to create your own Family Tree using photo transfers and appliqué.
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Textile Landscapes is a creative guide ideal for textile artists of all levels to make unique and beautiful work inspired by the world around us.
Cas Holmes begins with the basics – keeping a sketchbook to generate ideas, painting and stitching on cloth and on paper, and working digitally:
- Inspiring Landscapes looks at urban and urban space, the changing seasons and great landscapes as well as intimate spaces and travel diaries
- Painting and Marking with Cloth explains the practical aspects of painting and dyeing cloth and how to make connections between paint, print, dye, stencil and stitch
- Stitch-scapes looks at the different forms of landscape, experimenting with photographs and prints and how to translate those images using ink, stitch, abstract and collage techniques and then at how to transform the image using digital techniques
- On Closer Inspection covers using elements and details from landscape and the environment as found objects and for research
- People and Place explores the relationship we have with the outdoors and the built environment, as well as personal interpretations of place
The book includes artworks by the author that explore the UK, USA and Australia, as well as works by other internationally renowned textile artists.
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These 15 occasion bag designs are created using the rigid plastic templates contained within the book; these two easy-to-use templates are durable, reusable, wipe-clean and perfect for fussy cutting, plus they are simple to position and use there is no need to pin them.
The 15 bags are each made using different techniques, pockets, straps and fastenings, to create 15 very different results. The templates can also be used for your own further design variations, as you mix and match the techniques covered within the book using Debbie's advice on how to adapt and create your own unique designs.
Each project is explained using hertrademark style and step-by-step photography, and there is also a comprehensive techniques section and a guide to using the templates.
Look inside the book.
Watch a YouTube clip about the book.
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These 15 tote bag designs are created using the rigid plastic templates contained within the book; these two easy-to-use templates are durable, reusable, wipe-clean and perfect for fussy cutting, plus they are simple to position and use there is no need to pin them.
The 15 totes are each made using different techniques, pockets, straps and fastenings, to create 15 very different results. The templates can also be used for your own further design variations, as you mix and match the techniques covered within the book using Debbie's advice on how to adapt and create your own unique designs.
Each project is explained using hertrademark style and step-by-step photography, and there is also a comprehensive techniques section and a guide to using the templates.
Look inside the book.
Watch a YouTube clip about the book.
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In Tilda Hot Chocolate Sewing, Tone Finnanger returns with a stunning new collection. Featuring over 20 projects, you can choose from quilts and softies, bags and dolls, pillows and purses. Autumnal motifs include reindeer, mice, apples, butternut squash, ducks, birds, houses and more.
This heartwarming collection will bring warmth and magic to your sewing, with beautiful lifestyle photography and step-by-step instructions and diagrams to ensure success.
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Traveler's Tee is a knit t-shirt, which slips over the head, with a shawl collar inset with three buttons. It features ¾ length sleeves, a high-low hem, and three pockets – two pockets on the outside with loop closures, and an underarm pocket inside to store valuables. Fabrics: Ponte knits, textured knits, rayon, poly or cotton.
Multi–sized: XS–3XL
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Rip in your jeans? Snag in a sweater? Tear in a tea towel? They all present an opportunity for one-of-a-kind creativity! With this fun introduction to unconventional mending techniques in a format that's half how-to guide, half idea book, anyone can give worn and torn items new life.
Start by learning hand-mending methods, including boro, embroidery, patching and darning. Even with a limited budget and not much time to spare, you can create eye-catching repairs with visible mending – 35 examples and more than 150 photos make it easy to put your unique mark on everything you mend!
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Capture the essence of Japanese style in your sewing with this collection of projects inspired by the wabi-sabi concept of 'perfect imperfection'. This collection of 20 sewing projects for home decor and accessories is based on the popular Japanese aesthetic of wabi-sabi which celebrates the beauty in the ordinary and imperfect.
The projects are grouped according to how we live, for example: living; sleeping; eating and exploring. Sewing and quilting expert and fabric designer, Karen Lewis, has used a limited palette of earthy tones and the best quality natural fabrics including linen, cotton, denim and wool to create a stunning collection of simple, sewn projects.
Try out some simple wabi-sabi style sewing techniques such as hand hand piecing, sashiko embroidery, big stitch quilting and visible mending to create unique items for your home whether it's a full-sized bed quilt, simple coasters for your favourite mug or a stunning scarf to wrap up in.
$35.99