Creative Machine Stitching

Creative Machine Stitching
Author: Patricia Nelson
Publisher: That Patchwork Place
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003
Genre: Embroidery, Machine
ISBN: 9781564774620

Create shimmering waves with silver thread. Make flowers out of fluffy yarns. Stitch delicate leaves, stars, vines, and more -- no fancy sewing machine required! A world of ideas for easy machine embroidery is packed into this authoritative guide. Book jacket.

Creative Machine Embroidery

Creative Machine Embroidery
Author: Gail Harker
Publisher: Potomac Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2000-06
Genre: Embroidery, Machine
ISBN: 9781574882711

An excellent introduction for anyone wanting to learn a portfolio of original, creative machine embroidery techniques. Included are steps to finding and developing designs and themes to be used by the reader in the creation of their own original designs. Step-by-step, the book then leads to the selection and preparation of appropriate fabric and threads, the application of design to fabric, and the working of machine stitches to depict and enhance the selected design.

Creative Machine Embroidery

Creative Machine Embroidery
Author: Linda Miller
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010-09-15
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781408103982

Filled with exciting projects, this book is a how-to guide for textile artists looking to learn all the methods and techniques they need to begin "painting with threads" using their own home sewing machine. This is destined to become a classic handbook, with chapters covering all the basics, including tools and materials; methods and techniques; using your sewing machine; experimenting with threads, fabrics, and colors; and creating your own designs and presenting your work. It will inspire enthusiastic beginners with limited textiles skills, as well as engage more experienced textile artists who wish to understand and adopt new techniques. The book is like taking a series of technique-based master classes, with step-by-step photographs to illustrate each stage of the process.

Creative Stitches for Contemporary Embroidery

Creative Stitches for Contemporary Embroidery
Author: Sharon Boggon
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2020-11-25
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1617458783

Find endless inspiration with this photo guide to embroidery stitches. Discover the 120 hand-embroidery stitches that every embroiderer should have in their stitching arsenal, with clear, step-by-step photos you can come back to time and again! Contemporary needlework teacher Sharon Boggon’s forward-thinking ideas will help you view hand embroidery through a vibrant new lens. Beginners and seasoned embroiderers will gain the confidence to create new patterns by playing with the stitches—manipulating the height and width, making asymmetrical loops, stacking up designs, or filling multiple rows with the same stitch. With so many creative variations and the author’s gorgeous samplers, you’ll be inspired to incorporate new techniques in your own crazy quilts and modern projects. Essential guide to surface embroidery! 120 contemporary stitches, including left-hand stitches, with step-by-step photos See how tiny tweaks to each stitch can take your needlework to unexpected places Play up the possibilities with modern fill patterns, asymmetry, luscious texture, and crazy quilting

Creative Uses for Decorative Stitches

Creative Uses for Decorative Stitches
Author: Karen Linduska
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Embroidery, Machine
ISBN: 9781604600278

"Take your quilts to the next level of creativity by using the decorative stitches built into your sewing machine. Karen shows how to find multiple uses for a single stitch, how to combine stitches, and how to best use threads and stabilizers. Eleven projects serve as practice for getting to know your machine"--Provided by publisher.

Decorative Machine Stitching

Decorative Machine Stitching
Author: Cy DeCosse Incorporated
Publisher: Creative Publishing International
Total Pages: 128
Release: 1990
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780865732568

Provides ideas for decorative stitching along with step-by-step instructions.

Creative Thread Sketching

Creative Thread Sketching
Author: Deborah Wirsu
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-03-21
Genre:
ISBN: 9780645449495

Begin an exhilarating journey into the world of drawing and painting with thread and your sewing machine. Thread sketching is a fascinating craft - but where do you begin? This fully revised and illustrated Second Edition of 'Creative Thread Sketching' guides you through everything you need to know. From equipment and tools, fabric selection and setting up your sewing machine, to free motion stitching techniques and problem-solving, this friendly guide shows you how to put all the pieces together. Learn how to create a wide variety of stunning stitched textile art for your home or friends. Popular textile artist, author and blogger Deborah Wirsu includes six free, illustrated projects to help get you started with this comprehensive introduction to creating stunning textile art using fabric, thread, and a domestic sewing machine.

Translating Between Hand and Machine Knitting

Translating Between Hand and Machine Knitting
Author: Vikki Haffenden
Publisher: The Crowood Press
Total Pages: 776
Release: 2018-08-17
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1785004328

Knitting is an enduringly popular and creative craft, but many associate the techniques primarily with hand knitting, believing machine knitting to require arcane knowledge. However, machine knitting is formed from the same stitch structures and is equally versatile. Translating between Hand and Machine Knitting rediscovers the potential of domestic machine knitting to open up new possibilities for dedicated knitters, offering an equally creative yet timesaving method of crafting new designs. With over 500 images, this comprehensive guide offers detailed step-by-step explanations of techniques in both hand and machine knitting, whilst also offering inspiration and design advice. Dr Vikki Haffenden, a highly experienced knit designer, technical knitter and educator, shares the knowledge and understanding she has accumulated over a career designing for the knitted textile and knitwear industry and as a lecturer in knitted textile design. Topics covered include: Illustrated step-by-step instructions of hand and machine knitting techniques; Qualities and behaviours of fibres and yarns and their suitability for knitting; Equipment requirements and advice; Basic stitches and stitch constructions of hand and machine knitting; Combining stitches to make surface texture and colour patterns; Shaping and knitting 3D shapes; Calculating garment shape and size from tension swatches. Superbly illsutrated with 397 colour photographs and 130 line artworks.

How to Be Creative in Textile Art

How to Be Creative in Textile Art
Author: Julia Triston
Publisher: Batsford Books
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2013-10-18
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1849941459

It's a question asked by many budding textile artists: how can I be more creative? You've got a few ideas and know some techniques, but you're not sure how to get started or make your work hang together. This book shows you how. It explains the creative process from the very beginning: where to find inspiration and how to harness those ideas; how to gather source material; how to pull together what you have. The authors then take you on a journey to develop a design. Learn how to put elements together to make a cohesive whole and develop a theme, learning established design rules along the way. Part Three, Moving into Stitch, gives you a range of techniques and easy experiments with which to turn your design into stitched-textile work. From choosing what fabrics to use, to layering, creating texture and adding embellishment, it covers the key techniques to try. This is a terrific book for those starting out in textiles who really do want to be as creative as they can possibly be.