Contemporary Machine-Embroidered Fashions: Transform Everyday Garments Into Designer Originals [With CDROM]

by Eileen Roche

Book Overview

Discover the Secrets to Fabulous Fashion EmbroideryWomen of all shapes and sizes can wear embroidered garments - the trick is to create a slimming effect with the placement and size of designs. With... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896893030
• ISBN13: 9780896893030
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Krause Publications
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.3" x 10.8"

Customer Reviews

wonderful book

This is a great book and I am excited and anxious to try some of the projects.

A thoroughly 'user friendly' manual of projects and concepts

Eileen Roche is the founding editor of 'Designs in Machine Embroidery' and so brings a special expertise to "Contemporary Machine-Embroidered Fashions: Transform Everyday Garments Into Designer Originals". Enhanced with a profusion of colorful illustrations, as well as the inclusion of a bonus CD offering 30 original designs, "Contemporary Machine-Embroidered Fashions" focuses upon fashion embroidery using the sewing machine. Needlecraft enthusiasts are provided with twenty projects with their step-by-step instructions and coordinating outfit ideas; techniques and tips for selecting and using blanks, notions, designs, templates, stabilizers, hoops and machines; as well as invaluable information on embroidering tops and bottoms, necklines, collars, cuffs, pockets, and trim. A thoroughly 'user friendly' manual of projects and concepts, "Contemporary Machine-Embroidered Fashions" will prove a welcome and even inspiring addition to needlecraft reference collections.