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.

You can read through the book on screen, zoom in or out for details, use the bookmarks to find certain pages or techniques, enlarge the type and generally adapt the pages to your own taste. No need to download the book to your computer, taking up memory, read from the disc. Plus, storing the CD takes up much less space than a printed book.

Annette Morgan, writes in a friendly but firm style – don't procrastinate, do it! She explores a lot of popular mixed media methods, but her interpretations are fresh and interesting. Her work is lovely and having the ability to zoom right in on the details is a real bonus. The images are of good quality and extremely clear. The strength of the book is in design and technique, not step by step projects, though a couple are included. I printed off a project and again had no problems.

On the suppliers page, the web addresses are clickable and take you straight to their websites. While a book on CD will never replace a printed book, they are ideal for this type of work, at a reasonable price.