fancy work

Presents thirty-eight stitch illustrations to twenty contemporary hand-embroidery projects, and includes instructions to creating hair ties, crewel mittens, baby bib, and more.

Shows how to create unique T-shirts and craft unique tops from T-shirts, presenting photo-illustrated, step-by-step instructions for thirty-one projects and providing thirty-one style variations.

A guide to using embellishments to customize jeans, featuring instructions for thirty-four projects that use beading, painting, stamping, embroidering, and sewing techniques, and including photographs, diagrams, and patterns.

Compilation of 5 books previously published separately under the titles: Knitting, Crocheting, Simply sewing, Embroidery and Quilting.

Provides step-by-step directions for creating forty original handbags. Begins with the patterns for seven basic design styles then shows various unique ways to embellish and customize each one. Includes a photo gallery of ideas at the end.

Provides step-by-step directions for standard, practical knots and splices and for decorative variations, and presents directions for belts, trays, mats, lanyards, and other projects.

A collection of photographs and illustrations that showcase the fabrics and decorative details of garments from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Contains instructions for thirty Japanese-style fabric crafts, including totes, fashion pins, purses and pouches, sewing accessories, and other small items.