Soft Gardens: Make Flowers With Your Sewing Machine (Creative Machine Arts)

If you love flowers as much as you love to sew, you can now make flowers that never wilt or need watering! The author covers materials needed, and gives complete instructions for all the designs in the book. With simple materials such as lace, silk or ultrasuede, readers can create three-dimensional silk flowers, ribbon flowers, cabbage roses, cactus gardens, suede mini-flowers and English ivy. Using this book you can learn how to perfect satin stitch on any fabric, how to manipulate flower edges by scalloping or serging them - there are even instructions on how to make fabric vases.