Sew Wild: Creating With Stitch and Mixed Media

Sew Wildliberates you! Enjoy unlimited freedom to color, pattern, and customize your own fabric with fun, spectacular results. Get wild with printing, painting, drawing, stenciling, and other surface design methods and unique materials such as plastic bags, photographs, and cardboard. Dive into 12 simple sewing projects to make colorful, wearable, and hip designs, including a stunning wall quilt, adorable hats for kids or adults, a pretty wreath, cuff bracelets, and a modern ruffled apron.

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Artist Alisa Burke demonstrates many of the techniques and essentials of surface design and sewing on an included DVD. In addition to the in-depth video instruction, you'll get a bonus project exclusively on the DVD.

Whether you're already a rule-breaker or you're looking to improvise, Sew Wildshows you how to create fabric and designs that explode with color, pattern, and soul.

Audience
adult
Length
short · 144 pages

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