Designer Machine Embroidery and Textile Decoration: Creating Accessories for Your Body and Sole [Paperback]

Elli Woodsford (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1, 2006

Anyone with a basic sewing machine and lots of enthusiasm can create the stunning clothing and accessories shown in this book. Readers will develop their fabric decoration skills as they learn to create embellished fabrics that can be used to make beautiful clothing and accessories.

Covering a wide range of machine embroidery and textile decoration techniques, this book will show machine embroiderers and those with an interest in fashion and accessories how to apply exciting and innovative techniques to their work.

From coloring, painting, dyeing, and printing fabrics to a wide range of decorative stitching techniques, talented fabric artist and instructor Elli Woodsford shows how the simplest methods can be combined to create astonishing fabric surfaces. Each topic includes step-by-step illustrated instructions, as well as project ideas for making jackets, bags, shoes, hats, corsets, jewelry and more.

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About the Author

Elli Woodsford is a textile designer/maker and teaches machine embroidery and textile decoration. Her recent work is featured in a traveling exhibition at the Hayloft Gallery in Christchurch and at Wheelwrights in Abbotsbury, Dorset. The author resides in New Milton. Hampshire, UK.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Quarry Books (April 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1592532152
• ISBN-13: 978-1592532155
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,038,518 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Read it twice, July 4, 2006

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Kathy S "rubyfan2" (Las Vegas, NV USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Designer Machine Embroidery and Textile Decoration: Creating Accessories for Your Body and Sole (Paperback)

When I first received this book order I skimmed through it and put it aside because it wasn't what I had expected. I recently picked it to file in my library and got distracted really studying it. Its now on my work table.
When I originally ordered it I think I was distracted by the cover - was thinking of purses and purse patterns versus fabric manipulation techinques. I now have made a list of the techniques in the book and hope to do one a week for about half a year (I don't plan on doing the knitting items...there were several I believe). Elli covers different ways to dye/color fabrics, decorate fabrics, resew a different way, etc. And there are about a dozen PROJECTS also where the reader can implement several of the techniques being taught in the book.
The reason I don't give it a 5 is that I wish that there were a few more projects for items pictured in the book...there were several great vests (basic pattern was included) but not always a detailed explanation on the techniques used in all of them. (But then again, I might not have read deep enough so they might be there.)