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Sarah Lawrence
Search Press
28 February 2012 (US 1 May 2012) / ISBN-13: 9781844486274
Hardback
How-To Books/Needlecraft
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Reviewed
by Rachel A Hyde
Have fun with needlecrafts and use a whole host of new and exciting
materials to make your mark! Stitch by hand or use your sewing machine
in conjunction with all the latest ways to paint, emboss, print,
stick, and gild.
This is not a book of projects to work through step by step. The
author suggests the reader thinks of it more in the way of a recipe
book where you use a bit of this idea and some of that to make your
own special creation. If you are up to using a recipe book in this
manner rather than plodding determinedly through point by point
then you can consider yourself a reasonably competent chef, and
this book is not aimed at the beginner stitcher. As there are a
vast number of books for beginners but fewer for advanced or even
intermediate crafters, this one is very welcome. Lushly illustrated
and in a large format with a hardcover, this is one for the shelf
to inspire and instruct the crafter on how to use many techniques
more aimed at the papercrafting market as a rule. Hand embossing
on metal, using solvent markers or inks, rubbing gilding waxes,
die cutting and rubber stamps are all methods used by cardmakers
and scrapbookers, but you can also use them on fabric. Not all of
these ideas are washable but will produce some wonderful pieces
to hang on your wall. Chapters show you how to use these methods
with a particular emphasis on cloth instead of paper, and there
are lots of lovely examples of what it all looks like. The last
few chapters explain how some finished pieces are made, and also
various methods familiar to jewellery makers are explored.. The
style is very abstract with lots of line and circles, which has
the effect of freeing up the crafter if drawing is a problem, and
it is all pretty timeless too, rather than the current fashion.
A lovely book to inspire and instruct.
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