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Creative Fabric Techniques
Creative Fabric Techniques
for quilters, embroiderers and textile artists
By Annette Morgan
Rainbow Disks CD Book
ISBN: 978-1-906314-16-3
Price: £12.00
Reviewed by Carole Kokinis 21 January 2010

Presented in an A5 plastic wallet with attractive insert, comes the latest innovation, a book on CD for textile enthusiasts. The 76 pages are in the form of a PDF file, which is easily opened, by putting the disc in the CD drive and following instructions. My OS is Windows XP home and my Adobe reader is version 9.3 - I had no problems. Anyone unfamiliar with reading this type of file, will find well written instructions on how to proceed.

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Get Plastered, Plaster, Print and Stitch
Get Plastered, Plaster, Print and Stitch
By Maggie Smith
Published by: Roundtuit Publishing
ISBN:978-1-904499-29-9
Price: £8.00
Reviewed by Kerry Miller
 
This is a book that shows you how to step away from the 'perfect image' and create fantastic art work, the likes of which I would normally associate with a design students' portfolio. I would never have imagined that you could combine plaster of paris with a sewing machine/hand stitching to come up with the strikingly unique examples the author has produced.

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Jelly Roll Inspirations
Jelly Roll Inspirations
By Pam and Nicky Lintott
Published by David & Charles
Price: £14.99
Reviewed by Bron Ellis

This book follows on from two previous books by the same author, Jelly Roll Quilts and Layer Cake, Jelly Roll and Charm Quilts. For those who are not familiar with Jelly Rolls, they are bundles of forty strips of pre-assorted fabrics 2-½ inches wide by 42 inches long supplied by Moda. They are available in many colour and design ways and make piecing of simple quilt designs quicker as the work of cutting the strips and fabric selection has already been done by Moda. This has its limitations as the standard width of the strips dictates mainly simple geometric designs but they are very popular and this book provides lots of good suggestions.

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