Fast, Fun, and Easy Incredible Thread-A-Bowls

You won't believe what ordinary thread and crafting scraps can be transformed into. You can make a large selection of gifts and home decor items using scraps of fabric, yarn, ribbon, artificial flowers and leaves, and pretty much anything else a sewing machine needle can sew through.

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While this book shares 2 different techniques for making thread bowls along with 5 specific projects, the creative possibilities are endless. Everyone will be amazed at the intricate and delicate projects you can create, and you will be amazed at how fun and easy they are to create.<p> In a nutshell, you gather together sewable scraps, sandwich them between two pieces of water soluble stabilizer, sew them together, rinse, form, dry, and seal. Of course, this book has easy-to-follow, step-by-step directions and great colored photos to help you create a large variety of fabulous bowls. The author gives directions to make 5 different shaped bowls and vases plus suggestions for a several variations of each one. <p> You can use almost anything a sewing machine needle can pierce through to create stunning decorations and awe inspiring gifts. Your home-made bowls and vases can be styled into many shapes and styles using colors that suit everyone's tastes. Once you get started making these thread bowls, you will have a hard time stopping. You will also start looking at your thread, fabric, yarn, and ribbon scraps in a different light. You will start seeing the crafting potential in the raveled edges of frayed fabric and limp petals of old, silk flowers.<p> As soon as I got this book I started collecting fabric and thread scraps. As a quilter, I am sure I will have enough scraps for a dozen bowls in no time! I can hardly wait, what about you!?<p>