Shirley Botsford's Decorating With Fabric Crafts: Create Elegant Home Accessories Inspired by Architecture - Softcover

Botsford, Shirley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0873416775 ISBN 13: 9780873416771

Publisher: Krause Pubns Inc, 1999

Synopsis

Step-by-step instructions demonstrate procedures for creating quilting, patchwork, and applique projects, including an apron, a duffel bag, and a backpack, using fourteen interchangeable squares

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Review:

Shirley Botsford is renowned to many crafters as the author of the delightful Shirley Botsford's Daddy's Ties: A Project & Keepsake Book, in which she creates one-of-a-kind decorative items with recycled neckties. In Decorating with Fabric Crafts, she has chosen another unique approach. Each of the 10 groupings of projects is inspired by a different architectural element in her immense Victorian home. It all began when she realized that one of the tiled hearths reminded her of a patchwork quilt, giving rise to a very pretty ribbon-piecework hatbox, memory album cover, and keepsake stuffed bear. The leafy design of a staircase's twin newel posts sprout from an appliquéd panel screen and a lacy table cover. A lampshade and a desk blotter take their motifs from ornamental brackets.

This clever approach could easily have become tired or trite, but by and large Botsford manages to inject a great deal of variety into her 32 projects. The step-by-step directions are not tremendously detailed but should prove more than adequate for intermediate-level sewers, and the publisher has thoughtfully included a thick envelope of complete, full-size tissue-paper patterns for all designs. With Botsford as their guide, crafters can fully indulge a penchant for Victoriana and can stitch, quilt, embroider, and stencil their way to a houseful of lovely decorative accessories. --Amy Handy

About this edition

• Publisher: Krause Pubns Inc
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0873416775
• ISBN 13: 9780873416771
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 125