Our "Fabric Embellishing" Challenge

I want to share the contents of Best Selling "Fabric Embellishing - The Basics & Beyond"

Four artists have put together this extensive embellishment guide i.e. Ruth Chandler, Liz Kettle, Heather Thomas and Lauren Vlcek. Their collective belief is that embellishments are 'our unique handprint on our creations. They tell our personal story and reveal our personality and style.'

The book is laid out in three sections:

1.Foundations: Fabric Manipulation, Fabric Weaving, Crazy Quilts, Rubber Stamping, Fashion a Frame, Images on Fabric (including printable fabric), Discharge Dyeing, Rusting Fabric, Decore or Burn-out.

2. Soft Embellishments: Hand Embroidery, Machine Embroidery, Thread-Lace Applique, Needle-Felting, Wool Beads, Silk Petals, Angelina Fibres, Textiva and Crystalina, Fabric Foiling Tyvek Transformations, Dimensional Applique, Going for Glitter.

3. Hard Embellishments: Beading, Hot-Fix Crystals, Metal, Paper, Foam Fabrications, Plastic Packs, Cocoons & Rods, Fabric Beads, Edge Burning, Melting and Scoring.

Every technique has step by step photos, clear details and how to make your own technique workbook.

Seriously, this is the kind of book where you could set yourself a Julia Childs challenge: work your way through the book creating one workbook page using one technique per week (or day depending on your time availability).

So for all those budding textile artists out there, in the words of Ruth Chandler "Let the boundaries we have learned as adults melt away and be replaced with creativity and imagination."

For those who take the challenge, be sure to tell us about it. I might even do it myself!

Sandra.