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Fabricate: 17 Innovative Sewing Projects That Make Fabric the Star
Author(s): Susan Wasinger (Author)
- Publisher: Interweave
- Publication Date: 24 Feb. 2009
- Language: English
- Print length: 128 pages
- ISBN-10: 9781596680944
- ISBN-13: 9781596680944
Book Description
Make unique cloth using a variety of easy fiber-art and fabric-manipulation techniques
Projects include laptop cases to evening bags, elegant wraps to flirty skirts, floor pillows to whimsical curtains, a felted puff-ball rug, a faux-chenille throw, a textured shibori scarf, and more
Create unique effects with pleats and crinkles; puckers and tufts; cut-and-fray fabric techniques; laminates that add colorful, versatile, and playful layers; surface embellishment techniques like cording, applique, and crazy stitch; heat-treated techniques like burn-out, burn-away, and fabric etching; fabrics designed with solvy and repeating notions like rickrack, hooks and eyes, and zippers.
Beginning and expert sewers alike will be thrilled to find that sewing just got creative, beautiful, and artful again. If you are a crafter, sewer, or are simply fabric-obsessed, Fabricate will take your addiction to new levels.
Editorial Reviews
Review
July/Aug 09
Do you ever find a fantastic piece of fabric and then not know what to do with it? Have you ever coloured or created a fabric and wished there was some way to show it off to its best advantage? Susan Wasinger could well have the answer for you with this book which offers seventeen designs where the fabric is undoubtedly the star of the show. Ideas vary from an evening bag to a laptop case, an elegant wrap to a little skirt. In each case, the fabric takes centre stage and has been transformed through texture, substance, adornment and embellishment. As well as full instructions, the book offers templates where needed and the photography shows each piece. Whether you want to create using a new piece of fabric or recycle a favourite vintage piece, there is an idea to suit you here.
― Classic Stitches
