Create the enormously popular look and luxurious feel of chenille in just five fun steps. Expanding on her first book, the best-selling Variations in Chenille, Nannette Holmberg introduces several new "Faux Chenille" techniques, such as incorporating ribbons, trims, and appliques to create one-of-a-kind chenille fabrics. Learn to make raw fabric edges "bloom" into soft, beautiful fabric. Discover a magical world of color and texture. --
A rich visual tour of vintage chenille, displaying hundreds of beautiful bedspreads and a few novelty items along with details that highlight manufacturing techniques and styles. A price guide is included in the captions.
Combine faux chenille and raw-edge patchwork and what do you get? The cuddly quilts. Pair two trouble-free techniques for a twist in these reversible quilts.
Kids will discover some of the many ways they can get creative with 3 primary materials, chenille stems, bottles, and tissue paper. They will be inspired by example projects featuring these materials then construct their own toys, gifts, and more. In doing so, young makers will develop their essential makerspace tools of imagination, inspiration, collaboration, and problem-solving. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Super Sandcastle is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Two books in one! In 'Branch and the Party Rescue', Branch is hosting his very first party, but will his safety first approach turn everyone away? In the second story, 'Satin and Chenille and the Fashion Show Disaster', the twins think Branch looks fabulous in their designs, but what if Branch doesn't feel the same way?
Learn quilting basics from a YouTube sensation and practice your skills with 12 fun projects suitable for all skill levels. Her instructional videos have inspired thousands to start sewing. Now for the first time, sew-lebrity Laura Coia shares written patterns for the most loved video tutorials on her “Sew Very Easy” YouTube channel! Learn the basics of quilt making, from cutting and pressing to borders and finishing. Then practice your skills with a dozen beautiful projects—quilts you’ll come back to time and time again—all suitable for beginners and beyond.
Southern Tufts is the first book to highlight the garments produced by northwestern Georgia’s tufted textile industry. Though best known now for its production of carpet, in the early twentieth century the region was revered for its handtufted candlewick bedspreads, products that grew out of the Southern Appalachian Craft Revival and appealed to the vogue for Colonial Revival–style household goods. Soon after the bedspreads became popular, enterprising women began creating hand-tufted garments, including candlewick kimonos in the 1920s and candlewick dresses in the early 1930s. By the late 1930s, large companies offered machine-produced chenille beach capes, jackets, and robes. In the 1940s and 1950s, chenille robes became an American fashion staple. At the end of the century, interest in chenille fashion revived, fueled by nostalgia and an interest in recycling vintage materials. Chenille bedspreads, bathrobes, and accessories hung for sale both in roadside souvenir shops, especially along the Dixie Highway, and in department stores all over the nation. Callahan tells the story of chenille fashion and its connections to stylistic trends, automobile tourism, industrial developments, and U.S. history. The well-researched and heavily illustrated text presents a broad history of tufted textiles, as well as sections highlighting individual craftspeople and manufacturers involved with the production of chenille fashion.
