Creative Embellishments

Creative Embellishments
Author: Sherrill Kahn
Publisher: Martingale & Company Incorporated
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2007
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781564776167

Demonstrates how to add stylish, sophisticated, personalized touches to craft projects made of fabric, plastic, clay, and paper, including quilts, garments, and many other items, through the use of a variety of embellishments, in a guide that comes complete with detailed instructions and more than 150 full-color photographs. Original.

Creating Couture Embellishment

Creating Couture Embellishment
Author: Ellen W. Miller
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Dressmaking
ISBN: 9781780679488

Creating Couture Embellishment offers a step-by-step guide to manipulating fabric and making and applying a rich variety of embellishments. Chapters cover fabric-manipulation techniques of pleating, quilting, tucking, ruffling, shirring and smocking, as well as the fabrication and application of feathers, beading, embroidery, flowers, decorative ribbons and bows, bias bindings and piping, fringe, braids and passementerie. The heirloom quality created by the insertion or application of lace is also explored. A comprehensive sourcebook of ideas for the student, professional and home sewer alike.

Embellishments for Adventurous Sewing

Embellishments for Adventurous Sewing
Author: Carol Zentgraf
Publisher: Creative Publishing International
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2013
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1589237315

With Embellishments for Adventurous Sewing, you'll delve into various methods of applique, learn the nuances of free-motion embroidery and thread sketching, and learn to maximize the decorative stitches and embroidery capabilities of your sewing machine.

Creative Cloth Doll Beading

Creative Cloth Doll Beading
Author: Patti Medaris Culea
Publisher: Quarry
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2007
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781592533114

An illustrated guide to embellishing dolls with beads Beading, one of the oldest forms of craft, is also a hot new trend and being used in new applications. Beadwork, which has typically been used in fashion, home decoration, and jewelry, is reaching for new horizons and showing up on quilts, journals, knits, crochet, and fiber arts of all kinds. In this book, author Patti Medaris Culea and beading experts Anne Hesse and Laura McCabe illustrate new ways of using various bead techniques to embellish the cloth doll. Sections include the basics of beadwork, beaded flowers for her hair, bead embroidered faces, starbursts (using crystals to enhance the figure), and wings and things (creating wings, crowns, and shoes with beads). Each chapter presents a different type of beading application in detail, with full instructions. Techniques are highlighted with step-by-step photos. A gallery of interpretations of the same pattern by leading artists is included for further inspiration.

Fabric Collage Quilts

Fabric Collage Quilts
Author: Joanne Goldstein
Publisher: That Patchwork Place
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999
Genre: Appliqué
ISBN: 9781564772633

Provides ideas for creating pictorial quilts, including choosing fabrics, borders, and embroidery stitches, and offers advice on how to sharpen one's creative skills.

Creative Mixed Media

Creative Mixed Media
Author: Sherrill Kahn
Publisher: Martingale
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2010-02-02
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1604680954

The popular author of Creative Embellishments is back with even more exciting ideas to explore! Packed with inspiration, this book offers 16 creative techniques to try with paper and fabric. Discover out-of-the-ordinary uses for everyday items such as facial wipes, hair gel, and shower mats! Play with new techniques and materials; then follow Sherrill's guidelines on design and composition to create a stunning work of art. Master techniques that range from stamping and paper embossing to working with stencils, digital images, glue batik, and much more Browse the stunning galleries--there's one for each technique Learn to ask "What if?" and produce your own symphony of line, color, texture, and value

How to Make 100 Ribbon Embellishments

How to Make 100 Ribbon Embellishments
Author: Elaine Schmidt
Publisher: Creative Publishing International
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2014-03-01
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 162788002X

Classic and contemporary crafters unite! Create amazing trims, butterflies, flowers and more withHow to Make 100 Ribbon Embellishments.With clever techniques and a huge selection of ribbon styles to choose from, the timeless art of making ribbon embellishments is better than ever. Let author Elaine Schmidt take you through 100 ribbon designs, offering helpful hints and tips to help you make beautiful accessories to place anywhere. DIVInexpensive, and with so many patterns and colors, ribbon is the perfect medium to create adornments that will make any gift, card, or decoration unique and special. Enjoy beautiful photos and simple step-by-step instructions that allow you to create amazing ribbon crafts with ease./divDIVSo grab some ribbon and get crafting!/div

Embellishments A to Z

Embellishments A to Z
Author: Stephanie Valley
Publisher: Taunton
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999
Genre: Fancy work
ISBN: 9781561583072

When sewers and crafters are looking for creative embellishment ideas, Embellishments A to Z will be the first book they turn to. Whether they sew garments, quilts, or pillows, they'll find exactly the right technique here. More than 17 major embellishment techniques are covered in this quick reference, including applique, couching, devore, laminating, piping, stenciling, stitch and slash, and much more. Many techniques include new variations for even more looks. In convenient alphabetical order, each technique is easy to find. Illustrated with full-color photos and drawings, the step-by-step instructions for each technique make the information accessible to readers of all skill levels. Even the advanced sewer will find plenty of inspirational ideas.

Jazz Improvisation Using Simple Melodic Embellishment

Jazz Improvisation Using Simple Melodic Embellishment
Author: Michael Titlebaum
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2021
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780367854751

Jazz Improvisation Using Simple Melodic Embellishment teaches fundamental concepts of jazz improvisation, highlighting the development of performance skills through embellishment techniques. Written with the college-level course in mind, this introductory textbook is both practical and comprehensive, ideal for the aspiring improviser, focused not on scales and chords but melodic embellishment. It assumes some basic theoretical knowledge and level of musicianship while introducing multiple techniques, mindful that improvisation is a learned skill as dependent on hard work and organized practice as it is on innate talent. This jargon-free textbook can be used in both self-guided study and as a course book, fortified by an array of interactive exercises and activities: musical examples performance exercises written assignments practice grids resources for advanced study and more! Nearly all musical exercises--presented throughout the text in concert pitch and transposed in the appendices for E-flat, B-flat, and bass clef instruments--are accompanied by backing audio tracks, available for download via the Routledge catalog page along with supplemental instructor resources such as a sample syllabus, PDFs of common transpositions, and tutorials for gear set-ups. With music-making at its core, Jazz Improvisation Using Simple Melodic Embellishment implores readers to grab their instruments and play, providing musicians with the simple melodic tools they need to "jazz it up."