Variations in Chenille - Softcover

Holmberg, Nannette

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1564772063 ISBN 13: 9781564772060

Publisher: Martingale & Co Inc, 1997

Synopsis

Nannette Holmberg's techniques for creating faux chenille. Learn-how techniques for creating beautiful faux chenille garments. Instructions for 2 jackets, a vest and 2 wall hangings. Patterns included but need to be enlarged.

About this title

About the Author:

Hometown: Salt Lake City, Utah

Nannette Holmberg has been designing custom clothing and designer fashions for more than 25 years. In addition to teaching workshops throughout the country, Nannette is a designer for McCall’s Pattern Company. She is also the author of New Directions in Chenille, published by That Patchwork Place.

From Booklist:

Forget those one-color chenille bedspreads; here is a new multilayered, multicolored technique to produce a variety of vests, jackets, pillows, and wall-hangings. Known as "slashing," the process involves sewing five layers of fabric together and then cutting through to the bottom (foundation) layer. Tips for color combinations and layering and combining different fabrics (i.e., silks, linens, and cottons, but rarely polyesters), as well as patterns, finishing tips, and diagrams, are included. Washing the produce forces edges to fluff up and fray. This effect is called "blooming," or, as Holmberg names it, faux chenille. Anyone observing the results will call them gorgeous and innovative. For crafters and quilters hungry to create new and exciting wearables, this book will satisfy. Iva Freeman

About this edition

• Publisher: Martingale & Co Inc
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1564772063
• ISBN 13: 9781564772060
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 87