Your guide to creating charming handmade gifts and keepsakes from fabric!
- 20 projects using three original bear designs to make gifts, postcards, gift tags, patchwork quilt blocks, ornaments, and more
- Detailed instructions for sewing and quilting techniques to complete projects, such as knitting, embroidery, applique, and more
- Step-by-step instructions, coordinating photography, helpful diagrams, and templates
- Try new techniques while creating handmade gifts that will be treasured by friends and family
- One-of-a-kind guide to making DIY fabric giftables using a variety of crafting techniques
Explore an inspiring way to try new sewing and quilting techniques while creating adorable 3D characters and original handmade gifts!
Created for any crafter who loves to stitch, quilt, and knit, Sewing Cozy Craft Projects features an array of adorable décor, accessories, and keepsakes for your home, family, and friends. Start with three cute bear designs that are on a winter adventure, then create more than 20 different projects, including 9 patchwork quilt blocks and 12 additional winter-themed ornaments, treat bags, gift tags, miniature boxes, and more.
Using various techniques—from embroidery, knitting, and sewing to appliqué, patchwork, and painting—and including a helpful opening section on tools, materials, and techniques, this must-have project guide is the perfect way to learn and build new crafting skills while making fabric postcards and gifts like you've never seen before!
Author Olesya Lebedenko is the founder of Olesya Lebedenko Design, author of Creating Scrap Blocks with Character, a designer, and a patchwork instructor. With Olesya's unique and exciting fabric projects—each fun to make and great for gifting—you'll get to try out new quilting and sewing techniques, then mail your loved ones what you've made!
Learn how to use your fabric stash and scraps to create homemade gifts and keepsakes, with Sewing Cozy Craft Projects!
"Olesya Lebedenko's adorable book, Sewing Cozy Craft Projects, is an inspiration. Once again, Olesya has captured creativity at its best."
—Mary Hertel, pattern designer, author of Sew Magical
"A cornucopia of fresh ideas that will help hone sewing, embroidery, and patchwork, appliqué, quilting skills, and more—all while providing inspiration to take off with your own special projects. Crafters will fall in love with these imaginative and charming projects!"
—Stephanie Soebbing, founder of Quilt Addicts Anonymous and author of Fat Quarter Patchwork Quilts
Author Olesya Lebedenko is an artist from Ukraine living in Canada, where she works and creates modern pattern designs. She is a teacher, designer, quilter, doll maker, author, magazine contributor, and entrepreneur as the founder and owner of Olesya Lebedenko Design. Her work has been featured in Canadian and Ukrainian publications, she has written countless tutorials and articles, and she has led hundreds of workshops all over Europe and Canada.
Olesya is a professional member of the International Quilt Association and the Canadian Quilters' Association. She is also a member of the York Heritage Quilters Guild based in Toronto, as well as the Global Doll Society. To learn more about Olesya Lebedenko and to view her work, visit her website, (olesya-l-design.com), her Instagram (@olesyalebedenkodesign), and her Etsy shop (etsy.com/shop/OlesyaLebedenkoDsgn).
