Fabric Art Workshop: Exploring Techniques & Materials for Fabric Artists and Quilters

by Susan Stein

A comprehensive source of all the newest and most popular fiber art techniques! This technique-driven book explores a wide range of new possibilities and materials available to fabric and journal artists. Each unique technique is presented with an inspirational, full-page photo of a fabric journal page. How-to steps with photos explore all the possible results from applying the technique. The reader can create journal pages and/or quilt blocks, which can be sewn together to make one large journal quilt, matted and framed individually, displayed on a meditation screen, or used as book pages sewn into a traditional journal format. Full-page fabric journal block to introduce each technique Step-by-step photos for exploring and executing the technique Gallery showing ways to display and use the fabric journal blocks Great value. Like two years of classes rolled into one book. Beautiful "journal page" opens each of 28 technique chapters All techniques are easily mastered by anyone. No complex dying involved. All products are readily available at craft, fabric, and quilt shops.

Genres: Quilting, Crafts, Nonfiction

128 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2007

Reviews

[Tammy V · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm on a buying spree (virus cabin fever) of books that can inspire me in the arts and crafts that I enjoy doing. This book does not disappoint. It is comprehensive and covers territory that I haven't seen before (that's hard) as well as territory I need to remember and some that I use regularly. In other words, it pretty much fits the needs of anyone wanting to play with fabric: quilt, clothing, journals, whatever. The skills are transferable.

I've been noticing art quilts and want to be inspired to play with a small one. Last year I hand sewed several pieces of clothing, including painting and embroidery accents, upscaled old jeans, generally had a grand old time.

Quilting has come so far since I started playing with it in the 70s - much more akin to the way I like to play with things than the precise patterns of yore. This books will show you ways to enhance your material to make something very unique. Bonus: if you sew, you'll already have most of what you need.

It has a section on rust dying material. I also bought a whole book on rust dying for mixed media. I'm intrigued by it and plan to play with it first (after I'm done with the gelli plates I'm learning to use right now).

This is a keeper for my reference library

[Sheila · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a good refresher for me of many techniques I've learned in the past, and a nudge to renew my acquaintance with them. There's at least one I've never tried - shaving foam marbling! Maybe I'll give that a go.

[Eugenie · Rating 5 out of 5]

my review is at my blog:
http://lapis-lazuli-q.blogspot.com/20...