Stupendous Stitching:: How to Make Fun and Fabulous Fabric Art
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Try Stupendous Stitching and discover simple techniques with sophisticated results.
• Create one-of-a-kind art in a few easy-and fun-steps.
• Fall in love with your sewing machine all over again.
• Hone your use of color and line.
• Go from plain fabric to ready-to-hang artwork that expresses your unique vision.
Inside, you'll find:
• Comprehensive instructions for stitching, finishing and mounting your art.
• Link to video tutorials.
• A gallery of inspirational photos.
• Project ideas for pillows, accessories and more.
Carol Ann Waugh teaches thousands of students online and in traditional workshops. An acclaimed fiber artist, Carol's passion for color and texture inspires students to take their art to the next level.
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Stupendous Stitching: - Carol Ann Waugh
Reflections
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Table of Contents
From Simple to Stupendous
Step 1: Preparing Your Background Fabric
Step 2: Couching
Step 3: Decorative Machine Stitching
Step 4: Hand Embroidery
Step 5: Sandwiching and Stitching
Step 6: Trimming and Rattail Binding
Step 7: Mounting Your Work
Creative Idea Gallery
Supplies and Resources
About the Author
Online Classes
Acknowledgements
Copyright
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Celebrating Our Diversity
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From Simple to Stupendous
I made my first quilt in 1976. It was really ugly. Not only that, but I never finished it because I ran out of fabric. Those were the days when you had to make templates out of cardboard, trace around them with a pencil and cut them out—one by one—with scissors. I thought the process was very tedious and not much fun. I didn’t make another quilt until 2005.
That was when I discovered all the new tools and equipment we have today as well as all the wonderful fabrics we now have to choose from. Once I was re-introduced to the joy of making quilts, I spent the next two years making lots of them and trying to learn every technique possible since I was having so much fun. I learned strip piecing and curved, prairie points, appliqué, painting and dyeing, marbling, discharging, rusting, screen printing, fusing, machine quilting: You name it, I tried it. Soon, I had a pile of colorful quilts and was ready to start designing my own.
I quickly decided that I wanted to make art quilts, not traditional bed quilts. I started creating my first fiber art pieces using a freehand cutting technique to create the background or design and discovered that I loved the process of creating as you go—rather than planning everything beforehand and then executing the design. This discovery was the first step in understanding my own creative process.
My traditional quilting friends shudder when I talk about the process of letting the fabric, color, line or mood define the decisions I make in creating a piece of fiber art. So many of our traditional quilting patterns rely on choosing exactly the right values for each part of the pattern so that when it is completed, the total pattern emerges. In traditional quilt-making, you always know what the finished piece will look like, but in improvisational fiber art, you never know what the outcome is until it’s finished.
Quite a different mindset!
I made many improvisational fiber art pieces during the next several years, constantly learning and refining my process and techniques. Each piece looked different from the others and while I was still having a good time, I knew I needed to begin working toward creating a body of work that was unique, different and totally mine. I decided to change my artistic focus from pieced work to whole cloth and concentrate on creating lines and texture rather than pattern.
Thus I began my journey of exploring how to create fabric art with a rich mixture of machine- and hand-stitching, couching and bead work that grew into a process I named Stupendous Stitching.
I am excited about sharing this process with you and hope you find it as fun and addictive as I do!