New Books to Buy!
Table Toppers: Celebrating the Great Outdoors by Debbie Field
Table Toppers: Celebrating the Great Outdoors by Debbie Field of Granola Girls® Designs is a new book that features 18 easy, home décor projects. Inspired by the beauty of nature, Field brings her love of the outdoors inside with this new original collection of table toppers, candle mats, and table runners designed to celebrate the seasons. The 128-page book features 150 appliqué patterns and easy-to-use appliqué templates. Step-by-step instructions combined with more than 100 full-color photographs, diagrams, and illustrations make it easy to create the projects. Filled with creative ideas that capture the spirit of each season, the book showcases everything from a radiant iris table runner and fanciful sunflower and crow candle mat to acorns and oak leaves candle mat and silent night table topper.
A brief primer on appliqué and binding techniques provides all the basic skills needed to successfully complete the projects. And a handy guide to quilting techniques shows how to use individual motifs, stitching-in-the-ditch, outline quilting, and stipple quilting to add a dash of panache to the final product.
To carry this book in your store, contact Landauer Corporation at 1-800-557-2144, or visit online at www.landauercorp.com.
Fast, Fun & Easy Fabric Ficklesticks by Diana Taylor
Now your customers can turn fabric strips into fun and funky adornments that they can bend, wrap, weave and wear when they follow the instructions of Diana Taylor, author of Fast, Fun & Easy Fabric Ficklesticks. The new book, available through C&T Publishing, features nine quick and engaging jewelry projects plus an inspiring gallery of stick figures, baubles, bouquets, belts and bows. Readers will learn how to stitch a Ficklestick in just minutes from an assortment of fabrics, pieced and unpieced, and they will finish with easy-to-find supplies.
Ficklesticks can be created in any length, from tiny one-inch posies to 36-inch wallhangings.
To offer this book in your store, contact C&T Publishing at 1-800-284-1114, or visit www.ctpub.com.
Not Your Grandmother’s Log Cabin by Sara Nephew with Marci Baker
This new book by Sara Nephew with Marci Baker features new designs, new techniques and new color-coded layouts! Not Your Grandmother’s Log Cabin is 116 pages and it showcases over 30 different projects. These simply amazing quilts are amazingly simple. The 60-degree log cabin blocks are easily created using the 10” Clearview Triangle ruler. Some of the unique features of the book are the actual size shapes provided for comparison, trouble-shooting for seams, color-coded layouts, and pressing directions through the project, and binding for other angles. This book is for all levels of quilters.
To offer this book in your store, contact Alicia’s Attic at 1-888-348-6653, or visit www.aliciasattic.com.
Safari Through African Folklore Embroidery with Leora Raikin
Safari Through African Folklore Embroidery with Leora Raikin is the perfect book for all those who love beads, fiber art, colors and fabric. This new book includes step-by-step instructions for basic embroidery stitches, crazy quilting, beading, embellishing, fabric and fiber fusing, needle felting and more. African Folklore Embroidery is a multi cultural needlecraft, a wearable art that appeals to all ages. The extreme contrasts of brightly colored threads against the black fabric make any completed design both striking and beautiful. African Folklore Embroidery is a treasured hobby and passion for Raikin. She loves stitching and takes great pride in each design completed by her students. Your customers will love Raikin’s book which is an outstanding visual safari of colorful examples and embroidery techniques.
To offer this book in your store, call 1-818-999-6094, or visit www.aflembroidery.com.
Reprinted from SQE Professional, November 2008 |
