Product Description: Discover the techniques behind museum-quality pieces and treasured heirlooms with this guide to antique needlework and handcrafts. Originally published in 1859, The Ladies' Hand Book of Fancy and Ornamental Work offers well-illustrated instructions for making the kinds of highly decorated items prized by Victorian homemakers: quilts, doilies, cushions, and ornamental knick-knacks as well as embellishments for collars, hair ornaments, purses, and other items...read more

Product Description: This beautiful book guides the reader through Wendy’s inventive style of work: from piecing and layering fabrics and creating textures to painting and embellishing with hand and machine stitching. This book contains a wealth of inspiration for any textile artist, showing how to create gorgeous, textured pieces of art and then, in the final chapter, offering inspiration for how to transform these pieces into three-dimensional items such as cushion covers, notebooks, 3-d vessels, and even a wedding dress, which Wendy made for her daughter...read more

Product Description: 26 charming, vintage style designs to make for the kitchen, bedroom and home. These elegant designs from renowned crafter Christa Rolf feature pretty vintage patterns in a wonderful shabby-chic style. Choose from pillows, quilts, mug rugs, bunting and a host of other delightful decorations...read more

Product Description: With the Sizzix die cutting machines, there are thousands of fun and useful applications. These machines cut shapes from paper or fabric, and they also emboss designs into paper. Uses include:Scrapbook or photo album designs and embellishmentsHandcrafted greeting cards and decorative envelopesInvitations & decorations for weddings, parties, events, etc...read more

Product Description: A delightful collection of original projects for creating homemade and lovingly crafted mementos to keep forever: learn how to use traditional skills such as embroidery, applique and quilting to make items for weddings, christenings and birthdays that will always be treasured...read more

Product Description: Add a touch of whimsy! Learn how to make gorgeous embellishments using Kari Mecca's Whimsy Sticks. Create flowers, trims and medallions with unlimited variations and arrangements in all types and sizes of ribbon. Add stems and leaves to complete your lovely creations or add beads and buttons before attaching them to dresses, bags, pillows or whatever you may desire...read more

Product Description: Choose from 12 unique applique flower designs, and Plant Your Own Garden! Rebecca L. Campbell's innovative applique technique ensures exquisite results. Make a 3D effect without trapunto, and make your work come alive! Each of the flower designs in this 32-page booklet may be used separately or gathered together colorful applique garden...read more

The turbulent career of Ruth St. Denis embraced the whole creative flux of artistic and spiritual movements in the early 20th century. Drawing on St. Denis's own diaries and letters, as well as on interviews with students and colleagues, Shelton illuminates both the tumultuos life of one of dance's most charismatic first ladies and the origins of modern dance itself.

Product Description: Delicate and delightful lace is a great look paired with jeans or high fashion. These eight easy patterns offer lace-sewing know-how and will have you stitching up lacey luxuries in no time. And since this collection is from Threads, the premier magazine for sewing enthusiasts, you’ll get tips and techniques you can count on for success in any of these playful projects:Lady Lace TopLace Embrace SkirtMidnight Lace TopPainted LaceLace ClutchLacy Layered SkirtLacy ChokerSheer Lace Appliqué With multiple projects in every booklet, our 32-page Threads Selects booklets are a terrific value...read more

Product Description: This step-by-step technique reference introduces and thoroughly explores several methods of fabric embellishment that can be used to adorn clothes, home décor items, or even quilts. With Embellishments for Adventurous Sewing, you'll delve into various methods of appliqué, learn the nuances of free-motion embroidery and thread sketching, and learn to maximize the decorative stitches and embroidery capabilities of your sewing machine...read more

Product Description: This inspirational book includes practical instruction for classic thread and wool crafts as well as related fabric crafts and needlecrafts. Full guidance is given on all the equipment and materials. Each basic technique is shown step-by-step, to ensure complete confidence and success...read more

Product Description: Sarah Lawrence’s gorgeous textile art is so richly decorated that it is impossible to guess how it has been created. In this book, she reveals the secrets, with clear step by step instructions on a multitude of innovative techniques from many different crafts, which are then combined to produce eleven beautiful projects...read more

Product Description: Make every day a day at the beach with these whimsical, one-of-a-kind art pieces and fun folk crafts. 25 sewing projects include stuffies, quilts, garlands, pillows, bags, and more—all with a bright and cheery seaside theme. Beginners and experienced sewers alike will find something fun to create from today’s top designers...read more

Product Description: Twenty great flower designs that are easy and fun to make.

Product Description: Over 200 all-new crochet stitches, embellishments and trims make this the one-stop shop for all creative crocheters. Every stitch is shown as a clear swatch to show the effect and texture, and the pattern is given both written and as an easy-to-follow diagram...read more

Product Description: This hardcover, enclosed spiral bound book includes a collection of more than 40 embroidered projects in Mary Engelbreit's signature style. Featuring a variety of embroidery, fabric appliqué, and colored marker techniques, the book is divided into three sections: home, baby, and gifts to give...read more

Product Description: 2010 Benjamin Franklin Gold Award winner A huge contemporary trend in the industry, mixed media is taken to a new level here with a unique combination of watercolors, pen and ink illustrations, needlework design, and more. The montage effect, taught in this volume, begins with a computer-edited image that is transformed into grafted patterns and then enhanced with crazy quilting, manipulated fabrics, embellishments, dye, and embroidery techniques...read more

Product Description: It's hip to be crazy for cozies—and this Pretty Little collection elevates the cozy from humble to cool. Thirty-two colorful, modern, and playfully feminine projects include covers for iPods, cell phones, and cups, plus wraps to cuddle such delightfully unexpected objects as a French press, video game controllers, and pot or pan handles...read more