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    Stupendous Stitching:: How to Make Fun and Fabulous Fabric Art
    Stupendous Stitching:: How to Make Fun and Fabulous Fabric Art
    Stupendous Stitching:: How to Make Fun and Fabulous Fabric Art
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    Stupendous Stitching:: How to Make Fun and Fabulous Fabric Art

    By Carol Ann Waugh

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    With Stupendous Stitching, you create stunning textured fabric art to display on your walls, use in home décor and make into fabulous accessories. Combining hand embroidery, decorative machine stitching and couching, this technique is fun and addicting. You can't make just one!

    Try Stupendous Stitching and discover simple techniques with sophisticated results.
    • Create one-of-a-kind art in a few easy-and fun-steps.
    • Fall in love with your sewing machine all over again.
    • Hone your use of color and line.
    • Go from plain fabric to ready-to-hang artwork that expresses your unique vision.

    Inside, you'll find:
    • Comprehensive instructions for stitching, finishing and mounting your art.
    • Link to video tutorials.
    • A gallery of inspirational photos.
    • Project ideas for pillows, accessories and more.

    Carol Ann Waugh teaches thousands of students online and in traditional workshops. An acclaimed fiber artist, Carol's passion for color and texture inspires students to take their art to the next level.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateJul 6, 2012
    ISBN9780972892643
    Stupendous Stitching:: How to Make Fun and Fabulous Fabric Art

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      Book preview

      Stupendous Stitching: - Carol Ann Waugh

      Reflections

      48h x 36w

      Table of Contents

      From Simple to Stupendous

      Step 1: Preparing Your Background Fabric

      Step 2: Couching

      Step 3: Decorative Machine Stitching

      Step 4: Hand Embroidery

      Step 5: Sandwiching and Stitching

      Step 6: Trimming and Rattail Binding

      Step 7: Mounting Your Work

      Creative Idea Gallery

      Supplies and Resources

      About the Author

      Online Classes

      Acknowledgements

      Copyright

      Buy the Book

      Celebrating Our Diversity

      28h x 26w

      From Simple to Stupendous

      I made my first quilt in 1976. It was really ugly. Not only that, but I never finished it because I ran out of fabric. Those were the days when you had to make templates out of cardboard, trace around them with a pencil and cut them out—one by one—with scissors. I thought the process was very tedious and not much fun. I didn’t make another quilt until 2005.

      That was when I discovered all the new tools and equipment we have today as well as all the wonderful fabrics we now have to choose from. Once I was re-introduced to the joy of making quilts, I spent the next two years making lots of them and trying to learn every technique possible since I was having so much fun. I learned strip piecing and curved, prairie points, appliqué, painting and dyeing, marbling, discharging, rusting, screen printing, fusing, machine quilting: You name it, I tried it. Soon, I had a pile of colorful quilts and was ready to start designing my own.

      I quickly decided that I wanted to make art quilts, not traditional bed quilts. I started creating my first fiber art pieces using a freehand cutting technique to create the background or design and discovered that I loved the process of creating as you go—rather than planning everything beforehand and then executing the design. This discovery was the first step in understanding my own creative process.

      My traditional quilting friends shudder when I talk about the process of letting the fabric, color, line or mood define the decisions I make in creating a piece of fiber art. So many of our traditional quilting patterns rely on choosing exactly the right values for each part of the pattern so that when it is completed, the total pattern emerges. In traditional quilt-making, you always know what the finished piece will look like, but in improvisational fiber art, you never know what the outcome is until it’s finished.

      Quite a different mindset!

      I made many improvisational fiber art pieces during the next several years, constantly learning and refining my process and techniques. Each piece looked different from the others and while I was still having a good time, I knew I needed to begin working toward creating a body of work that was unique, different and totally mine. I decided to change my artistic focus from pieced work to whole cloth and concentrate on creating lines and texture rather than pattern.

      Thus I began my journey of exploring how to create fabric art with a rich mixture of machine- and hand-stitching, couching and bead work that grew into a process I named Stupendous Stitching.

      I am excited about sharing this process with you and hope you find it as fun and addictive as I do!

      Quick Overview of the Stupendous Stitching Process

      Determine the background fabric to be used as a base

      Couch yarns and cords to the surface

      Add decorative machine stitching next to the couched lines

      Fill in the spaces with hand

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