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Fantastic Fabric Textures is a Dana Marie Design Co. project book for dimensional fabric embellishment. Indulge in fabric manipulation techniques like pleating, scrunching, and curved piecing to surface texture created by painting, stamping, and stitching. Produce your own truly incredible fabrics!

Soft Cover - Over 150 black and white photos and illustrations, Color Gallery and Step-By-Step instructions.

Order your autographed copy today!

$19.95 Fantastic Fabric Textures

Sheer Pleats Design Booklet
by Dana Marie Design Co.

Full Color Step-by-Step Instructions and Photo Gallery.

$8.95 Sheer Pleats Design Booklet

Beading on Fabric
by Larkin Jean Van Horn

Beading on Fabric is the ideal teaching tool and reference guide to get you started! Whether your medium is quilts, wearable arts, beaded jewelry, or woven or felted material, this must-have book will help you add sparkle, texture, and dimension to your work.

Whether your medium is quilts, wearable arts, beaded jewelry, or woven or felted material, this must-have book will help you add sparkle, texture, and dimension to your work.

Start with a comprehensive look at tools and materials that covers all types of fabrics, threads, needles, glues, and stablilizers. Then get the lowdown on beads commonly used in embroidery, and tips for wearability, washability, and caring for beaded fabrics. Move on to learning the basic stitches, incorporating beads into your stitches, creating edges and fringe, and how to bead around cabochons. The author carefully helps you choose how many beads to use in your work and select a color scheme, and a section on finishing techniques lets you wrap up your projects with style. You’ll even learn insider tricks for making your work easier!

llustrations, photographs of stitched samples, and examples of completed work scattered throughout the book will instruct and inspire. This practical approach to beading on fabric will give you all the tools you need to start bead embroidery—use the skills you’ve just learned, and let your imagination run wild! Whether you’re a doll maker seeking how to secure beads to your doll, a garment maker wanting to glitz up your latest creation, or a quilter venturing away from the traditional techniques, Beading on Fabric is your ultimate reference tool.

Hardback with concealed wire-o, 7 x 9¼, 120 pages, 70 Photographs and 75 illustrations, ISBN 10: 1-59668-004-0, ISBN 13: 978-1-59668-004-3

Well-known artist, lecturer and teacher Larkin Jean Van Horn shares many inspiring renditions of her beaded work.

$21.95 Beading of Fabric

Fleece wizardry from the award winning author of the Adventures With Polar Fleece series! Special guest chapter by Dana Bontrager, lead designer for Dana Marie Design Co.

Receive your copy autographed by Dana in her chapter "Embossing Stamping and Embellishing Fleece", plus a free "swirl" stamp to get you started with fleece embellishment!

$21.95 Polar Magic

Welcome to Rita Farro's world, where fashion and style have never been more accessible, more fun, or more important. Rita takes women through the steps of developing a personal style, choosing clothes that best suit their body type, and living each day as fully as they possibly can.

This is an inspirational and practical book that will make you think about weight and dressing in an entirely new way.

$14.95 Life is Not a Dress Size

The cover is black, with a red pair of lips that once was a button used by the NY designer Patrick Kelly. The closure is created by making a faced buttonhole in the shape of lips. This is just one of the closures that will pique your interest as you turn the pages of Opening & Closing.

There are more than 100 samples of fasteners with clear black & white photos and wonderful art work by Anne Charles. 24 pages of color to make the fabrics and closures come alive! This book is a great addition to every creative person's library!

$28.00 Opening & Closing

Lois started with many of the options from the Design & Sew Pattern collection and some of the ideas from her Good News Rag. The 7-1/2" x 9" format is different from the other 14 books she's written.

This one is wire bound so it will open flat, has a frosted looking plastic cover with red/white/black cover that shows through. The colored cover is a photo of a collage that repeats the colors that are the scheme carried throughout the 128 page book. Lois Ericson, 128 pages, illustrated, soft cover.

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