Elevate Your Zigzag Rope Sewing: 18 Projects and a Dozen Techniques for Making Bowls, Totes, and More (Landauer) Create Sustainable Handmade Gifts from Scraps

Take your rope sewing skills to the next level!

• 16 unique rope sewing projects including bowls, baskets, a handbag, and a wine caddy
• For all skill levels, projects vary in difficulty appealing to confident beginners, intermediate sewists, and experienced sewists
• Use scrap or repurposed fabrics to create sustainable crafts that make great handmade gifts
• Author Denise Haar is a lifelong sewist, quilter, and embroiderer, specializing in rope sewing

Ever wanted to turn your sewing habit into something even more substantial? Creative Zigzag Rope Sewing Projects is the perfect companion!

Inside this book, author Denise Haar shares the lessons that have filled her rope sewing classes with eager students, putting together 16 distinct projects — unique bowls, a lidded basket, a wine caddy, and even a fabulous satchel purse — to bring your sewing to the next level.

Projects include:

• Beginning Rope Bowl
• Floral Medallion Bowl
• Coffee Pod Basket with Fitted Lid
• Oval Kaffe Fassett Fabric Basket with Agate Stone
• Beaded Scalloped-Edge Bowl
• Poly Rope Plant Basket with Beach Shell
• Oval Bread Basket with Napkin
• Beginning Two-Rope Bowl with Twisted Top Edge
• Tri-Toned Quilted Square Bowl
• Two-Rope Tiered Basket with Driftwood Handle
• Wave-Edge Bowl
• Wine Caddy
• Floral Appliqué Basket
• Heart-Shaped Basket and Bowl
• Satchel Purse
• Connected Circles Bowl

Rope sewing does not require advanced sewing experience: There are great sewing ideas for confident beginners, including rope sewing basics and stitch techniques to kick off your new hobby. But Haar doesn't stop there, teaching advanced shaping techniques to help you craft baskets and bowls for use around the home.

Haar is a lifelong sewist, quilter, and embroiderer, specializing in rope sewing. Her use of decorative stitching, sculptural detailing, and mix-media embellishments have made her a highly sought instructor. She also serves as a Bernina ambassador.

We all know that sewing is one of the most meditative, relaxing hobbies there is, but with Creative Zigzag Rope Sewing Projects, you can turn that hobby into something more. You can craft gifts for friends, change the look of your home décor, and develop an artistry with sewing you've never experienced before!

Whether you need home craft gift ideas or more cute sewing ideas for rainy Saturday afternoons, turn every project into something completely original, with Creative Zigzag Rope Sewing Projects!

Denise Haar learned to sew, quilt, and embroider at a young age — giving her more than 20 years of experience in home crafts. In Elevate Your Rope Sewing, she teaches readers how to weave in fabric to coiled rope designs, creating zigzag stitch patterns that will delight enthusiasts and beginners alike. Once she discovered how to turn rope into bowls, she was hooked: soon, she was crafting decorative stitches into beautifully realized gifts she could share with others. These days, she teaches students how to do the same, with rope sewing classes that consistently fill up with eager sewing enthusiasts.