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Crazy Textile Jewellery and Other Accessories
Using Water-Soluble Stabiliser

by Hannelore Koch

     

How about making some of your own jewelry and accessories from nothing much more than ordinary threads, scraps of fabric and the odd bead or two? If this sounds impossible then you haven’t tried using water-soluble fabrics yet.

If I hadn’t been sent this book for review, I would have bought it! The items in here are truly beautiful and transform any outfit into something truly special. Choose from jewelry, bags, belts and even simple garments many of which are in sets instead of just individual pieces, something I always like to see in a craft book. The process is simple, and very green as well as being credit-crunch friendly. All you really need is a simple swing needle sewing machine and the sort of odds and ends left over from other projects. There are no staged diagrams in here however, and each project tends to be explained only in words with just the basics shown at the front in four photographs. The text is translated from the German, and at times this shows, although a few readings and a bit of common sense (as well as reading the instructions that come with the water soluble fabric) work wonders as does rolling up your sleeves and just having a go. If you are a total tyro with a sewing machine and have never made a garment of any kind before, this might well be a bit advanced, but anybody else ought to be able to make something to be proud of. One for the keeper shelf.

The Book

Search Press
June 2009
Paperback
1844484335 / 9781844484331
How-To Books / Wearable Art
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The Reviewer

Rachel A Hyde
Reviewed 2009
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