“Fabulous fabric effects are at your fingertips....Learn to use quilling, couching, embroidery, padding and pleating to create masterworks of fabric art, then try your hand at slashing, dyeing, and beadwork. There’s enough inspiration packed on the pages of this slim volume to keep you in stitches for years to come.”—Butterick Home Catalog.
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33 of 33 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Art of Fabric Manipulation and Embellishment,
This review is from: The Machine Embroidery Handbook: Designing with Stitching, Manipulation & Color (Paperback)
The title of this book is misleading; a more apt title would have been - "The Art of Fabric Manipulation: using Machine Embroidery as Embellishment"What this book offers is a wonderful view into the techniques of fine artists specializing in fiber/textile arts. Each page is richly illustrated with the artists' craft incorporating fine art techniques such as encaustics (paint, crayon), plastics, polymer clay on to fabric and lace. Most or all of the creations featured are one-of-a-kind pieces or benefit as exhibition pieces. If you consider yourself a fine artist with fabric, you will appreciate what this book has to offer in the way of fabric manipulation through sewing machine embroidery and fine art medium. The specific aspects of this book leads me to view this textbook as a professional monograph. If you are looking for machine embroidery techniques to use with your computerized embroidery machine (Bernina, Pffaff, Brother etc), then I suggest you look into Embroidery Machine Essentials by Twigg and Goodall.
30 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Not what I expected!,
By Ms. Jody M. Beitzel (Boothwyn, PA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Machine Embroidery Handbook: Designing Fabrics With Stitching, Manipulation, & Color (Hardcover)
I was dissapointed in the contents and projects in this book. Although beautiful, I think most were impractical. I also felt the book would be giving help and ideas for embroidery machines, not just embroidering on a standard sewing machine. While I would like to embellish cloth with embroidery, this book seemed beyond a beginner in scope and terminology.
23 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent for both Beginners & Experts!,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Machine Embroidery Handbook: Designing Fabrics With Stitching, Manipulation, & Color (Hardcover)
This is well planned and laid out book. It takes you through the basics and onwards to more advanced and interesting projects which will suit more adventurous stitchers, especially those involved in City & Guilds. The author is concise and to the point in her instructions and the book is also well illustrated.
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