Books about fiber arts and beading

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Welcome Home by Kaffe Fassett Welcome Home: Kaffe Fassett
  • Inspiring use of warm, vivid colors for joyous effects
  • Covers a wide range of media including fiber and painting
  • Makes interior decorating less intimidating for beginners


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The Art of the Needle bookcover The Art of the Needle
by Jan Beaney [out of print in early 2007]
  • Techniques include applique, image transfer, paint & embroidery
  • Imagery from unusual graphic and environmental sources
  • Unusual ideas for wall hangings and other decorative projects


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Annie Sloan's Color Schemes Annie Sloan's Color Schemes: For Every Room
  • Interior decorating book, not about creating arts & crafts, per se
  • Innovative and exciting color combinations to apply to any project
  • Every page is rich with color schemes and variations


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Quilting

Strip pieced watercolor magic Strip-Pieced Watercolor Magic: A Faster, New Approach to Creating 30 Watercolor Quilts
  • Lovely heirloom designs and patterns in many sizes
  • Clear, illustrated instructions are helpful for first-time projects
  • Baby-sized quilts can be completed in one (long) day


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Wearable Art book cover Wearable art: Innovative designs for clothing and fibers
by Maria DaConceicao [out of print in early 2007]
  • Amazing crazy quilt techniques including vintage and unusual fabrics
  • Innovative uses of textures
  • Elegant and sometimes hauntingly beautiful fabric art


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Wearable Art...
Image coming soon Colourwash Quilts: A Personal Approach to Design & Technique [out of print in early 2007]


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Quilt in a Day bookcover Make a Quilt in a Day : Log Cabin Pattern
  • One of the earliest and most respected quilt in a day books
  • Ideal for beginners
  • I used this technique successfully to make quilts to sell in stores


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Emboidery

Embroidery from Sketch to Stitch Embroidery from Sketch to Stitch
by Pat Langford [out of print in early 2007]
  • Ideal for hand or machine embroidery projects
  • Adapts sketches & paintings to embroidered work
  • Includes ideas for dimensional and mixed-media art


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Embroidery...
Stitch Magic Stitch Magic
with Jan Beaney and Jean Littlejohn [out of print in early 2007]
  • Thick, dimensional techniques with yarn and other fibers
  • Mostly hand embroidery, some adaptable to machine work
  • Good for ethnic projects, pillows, purses, wall hangings


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