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Stitch, fabric & thread : an inspirational guide for creative stitchers / Elizabeth Healey.

by Healey, Elizabeth.

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Search Press, 2018, 2017.

Textile crafts.

9781782212850 (pbk.)

160 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Before the stitches -- Tools: Everything or nothing -- How a sewing machine works -- The importance of sketchbooks -- What is thread? -- What is fabric? -- colour -- Behind the stitches: The quilters of Gee's Bend -- Altered images -- Toning it down -- Straight ahead: Running stitches -- Exploring straight stitches -- Lovely jubbly -- Intentionally random -- Kantha fishes -- Behind the stitches: Boro textiles -- Visible mending -- A leaf out of my book -- Type matters -- Varsity letters -- African mask -- Colourful cords -- String theory -- In the loop: Chain and blanket stitches -- Exploring blanket and chain stitches -- Japanese bookbinding -- Behind the stitches: Saving your pennies -- Penny wall hanging -- Fluxus & mail art -- Silhouette-a-hula -- Stitching on knits -- Texture: Raised stitches -- Exploring raised stitches -- Mini quilt -- Drawing with stitch -- Dreamtime lizard -- Seamless repetition -- Talking knots -- Natural dyes -- Behind the stitches: The rise and fall of Buttony -- Making buttons -- More than stitches -- Shibori -- Pleats, folds and pinches -- Texture and illusion -- Worn and loved -- Behind the stitches: Mola reverse appliqué -- Mola: chicken or egg? -- Chunky rouleaux swirls -- Drawn thread -- Behind the stitches: Marriage quilts -- Trapunto graffiti -- Gathered circles of joy -- Behind the stitches: Not to be sniffed at -- A christening gift -- Mirror, mirror -- Mudlarking -- Fibonacci flower -- The poor sewer's embellisher -- Paisley Park -- The stitches -- Templates -- Glossary.

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