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Indulge Your Passion for Embellishing Fabric

Start or complete your collection of these beautiful and inspiring books by United Kingdom tutors, Jan Beaney and Jean Littlejohn. Each book is unique and filled with detail colorful photos of their work, with tips, techniques and design ideas.
Learn something new with each theme-based book. Both Jan and Jean share their insight into free-motion embroidery, water-soluble stabilizers, luscious textiles, transfer-dyeing, and incorporating mixed-media.


BOOK 1
Vanishing Act
Machine Embroidery on Soluble Fabrics

Learn the secrets and tips to working with soluble fabrics. There are tips for creating endless possibilities.

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$21.95 each

BOOK 2
Voluptuous Velvet

This book shares techniques for embellishing velvet by burning the pile, bonding and appliqué, stitching, dyeing to create a wonderful embellishing affect.

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$21.95 each

BOOK 3
Bonding and Beyond

This book goes beyond just gluing two pieces together. It shares techniques on trapping, layering, beading and building color.

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$21.95 each

BOOK 4
Transfer to Transform

In this book Jan and Jean explore strategies for developing surface qualities which may be enriched by transfer colouring in any of its many forms.

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$21.95 each

BOOK 5
Gardens & More

This book hopes to offer suggestions and ideas to possibly revise your thoughts about creating unique stitched pieces inspired by a much-love subject; gardens that are gloriously colorful patterns that can be translated into textile art and embroidery projects.

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$21.95 each

BOOK 6
Conversations with Constance

Few people in the field of the visual arts could be unaware of Constance Howard’s deserved reputation as the foremost pioneer of creative embroidery in Great Britain in the twentieth century.

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$21.95 each

BOOK 7
Trees as a Theme

This book offers inspiration on studying the texture of trees to create beautiful textured, color, shapes and patterns for your next embellishment design. These can be applied to doll costuming, wearable art and quilting projects.

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$21.95 each

BOOK 8
Giving Pleasure

This book offers ideas for gifts, cards and wrappings. The examples are designed to whet the appetite and act as a springboard for your idea. The projects are based on their techniques of surface embellishment and embroidery.

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$21.95 each




Elegant Ribbonwork
By Helen Gibb

In Elegant Ribbonwork, ribbon expert Helen Gibb teaches you how to make roses, blossoms, rosettes, leaves and more using the detailed step-by-step instructions, diagrams and photos.

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$20.99 each

Zentangle
Fabric Arts Quilting Embroider
By Suzanne McNeill

With Zentangle ®, design possibilities expand beyond our wildest dreams. Tangles add valuable variations for embellishing all types of fabric arts ... costuming, embroidery, mixed media and quilting.

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$12.50 each

Ribbonwork
The Complete Guide
By Helen Gibb

Learn the techniques for ribbon flowers and leaves, and be inspired to make the incredibly beautiful projects. Using the detailed step-by-step instructions, you’ll soon be on your way to making ribbon flower compositions for use on your doll costumes, hats, pillows, wearable art and quilting projects.

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$25.99 each




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