Find information fast in this convenient pocket-size reference guide. Easy-to-follow Charts, Tables & Illustrations. Yardage requirements. Cutting instructions. Setting Secrets. Choosing Supplies. Piecing Techniques. Number Conversions & More.

    Discover how to bring your embroideries to life with Pat Trott's original and vibrant guide, which shows how to create many different raised stitches.

    Enjoy the photos for vintage ribbonwork, learn the techniques for making ribbon flowers and leaves, and be inspired to make the incredibly beautiful projects. Using the detailed step-by-step instructions, diagrams, and photos, you'll soon be on your way to making ribbon flower compositions for use on your hats, albums, pillows, dolls, crazy patch, and quilting projects.

    More Fabric Savvy brings over 100 new tips, over 400 new color photos and drawings, the latest new fabrics, and entirely new and useful features, including a handy guide to stain removal. From Sandra Betzina, the dynamic host of HGTV's Sew Perfect, this easy-to-use reference belongs on every sewer's bookshelf.

    From Crazy Quilt Stockings to a Jolly Jacket for Fido, you will be inspired to prepare your home and heart for holiday cheer. In addition to two quilts with yardage charts for all five-quilt sizes, stitch a teddy bear, stained glass pillows, wallhangings, and gift bags with ribbon art flowers. For your Christmas tree, you will marvel as you sew the Flying Geese Tree Skirt, and the kids will delight as they hang the ornaments they make from our quick and easy directions. For your holiday table, stitch a lovely tablerunner with matching placemats. Round out your holiday decor as you wear a whimsical appliqued sweatshirt, sure to prompt compliments. Adorn your home and make gifts for family and friends as we sew together this Ch!ristmas at Eleanor's log home, Bear's Paw Ranch.

    Includes special rulers that enable drafting to custom sizes. Quotes from period fashion magazines and other sources give additional information on construction, materials, and wardrobe planning. For theatrical and reenactment costumers, vintage clothing collectors, brides, and doll artists.

    Thread painting is an exciting avenue for immortalizing these images in a lasting, tangible memory. Plus, it can add texture, character, and a bit of spark to your quilting. It is not necessary to be an accomplished artist or even an advanced embroiderer or quilter to be successful with this technique. Results are effective almost immediately at a beginner level. Through Nancy's tulle sandwich method, a minimal amount of effort and practice is all it takes to achieve lovely results. This technique allows the flexibility to design and create in any size and configuration desired. Not only can it be used in wallhangings, but also on vests and jackets, greeting cards, crazy quilt embellishment, pillows, memory books, and much more. Design elements taken from wallpaper can be transferred to pillowcases, dust ruffles, tablecloths, or napkins. The possibilities are endless.

    Includes special rulers that enable drafting to custom sizes. Quotes from original fashion magazines and other sources give additional information on construction, materials, and wardrobe planning. Also included is an 87-page, illustrated manual on period dressmaking and millinery. For theatrical and reenactment costumers, vintage clothing collectors, brides, and doll artists.

    It's quick and fun with Donna Dewberry's popular one-stroke technique! This easy-to-use reference provides all of the instruction and inspiration you need to successfully paint more than 50 garden flowers and wildflowers in an array of stunning colors.Donna provides complete instruction beginning with step-by-step photos of her basic one-stroke painting technique. You'll discover the secrets of painting leaves, vines and other foliage common to a variety of flowers. With handy color charts and tips on painting flower petals of all kinds, you'll learn how to create unique floral designs that can be used on furniture, walls, picture frames and more, with fabulous results every time.

    The friendly, easy-to-understand instruction starts with the basics and continuities through the process until you can easily sew all of the projects included. Clear step-by-step directions with lots of illustrations ensure your success.You'll find information on:Tools--Cutting, Measuring, Marking, PressingSewing Machines and SergersFabrics and InterfacingsPatterns and AlternationsLayout, Cutting, Marking, StitchingWaistlines, Gathering, Darts, Pleats, SleevesZippers, Hems, Closures, PocketsStep-by-step Directions for curtains, pillows, pants, totes/gift bags

    Covers new techniques to help quilters achieve better results in less time than was possible before.Guides quilters in color use, fabric choice, piecing, embellishing, and finishing.Includes special tips, hints, and suggestions from Jo-Annas veteran employees.Features 10 notable quilts from the past to demonstrate how patchwork quilts reflects the lives and times of their makers.

    Fetish-strapped-and-bound models are posed out of doors against splendid backdrops of stately gardens, castles, and columned mansions. Inside these aristocratic locales, models are draped provocatively over ornate four-poster beds, lounding against ancient wooden panelling or slipping, scantily clad, into a shadowy wine cellar with nothing but a candle for comfort. From delicate hand-tinted black and white images to sultry, glamorous, atmospheric color, these are art photos that excite.

    Nearly 300 pages of decorative machine art techniques will take your sewing projects to the next level!

    A manual for researching and sewing authentic reproduction clothing of the mid-nineteenth century for young women.

    A manual for researching and sewing authentic reproduction skirts and petticoats of the mid-nineteenth century, designed to accompany the first edition of Clark's "The Dressmaker's Guide." Material from this book is incorporated into the second edition of "The Dressmaker's Guide."

    These extraordinary pillows feature the kinds of details that people really want to make, the details that show up in the best home decorating magazines and coffee-table books, the details that professional designers use. Stitch-ruffled, pipe-edged, tasseled, pleated, flanged, buttoned, and tied pillows, and even more: all the instructions you need to get creative are here. The author lives in Topeka, KS.

    Once you learn this system, your technical difficulties are over. Just imagine cutting your sewing time in half and producing truly professional results. With the information contained in this book you can accomplish a sewing project with greater precision and still save time. Now that's exciting!

    Inside, you'll learn all the sewing techniques and trade secrets to create gorgeous accessories for every room in your home.

    You will also find detailed instructions based on Clotilde's years of experience and sewing expertise. It's like having Clotilde in your sewing room to answer your questions as you plan and create each new clothing project.

    Fortunately, author Carolyn Dahl openly shares the secrets of dyeing, painting, and patterning beautiful cloth she has gleaned in art schools.