Reach a new level of decorating sophistication with the beautiful flowers and techniques in this valuable 4 lesson Course. Begin with intricate accents such as embroidery and lace, stringwork, garland and ruffle borders. Discover the beauty of decorating with rolled fondant for covering cakes with an immaculate smooth surface and shaping fun figures and elegant flowers. Add several new icing flowers to your repertoire, including lovely holiday blooms like poinsettias and Easter lilies and other advanced flowers like petunia and morning glory. Complete your course by assembling and decorating a towering tiered cake with beautiful stringwork, flowers and borders.
Skinny Quilts and Table Runners II: 15 Designs from Celebrated Quilters
This title features 15 originals, eye-catching designs from some of today's most popular designers. Make a statement with skinny quilts! This superb new volume showcases the talents of top designers - including Karla Alexander, Sue Spargo, Lonni Rossi, and more. Choose from 15 original designs - in a terrific assortment of styles - that are sure to add a touch of colour and style to any room.
Corrective Lighting, Posing & Retouching for Digital Portrait Photographers
With techniques for achieving a flawless portrait, this manual shows how to create stunning, professional images in any setting. Tips on how to delicately discuss and evaluate a subject's appearance and his or her specific concerns combine with examples on how subtle changes in lighting and posing can flatter subjectsby slimming the waist and hips, enhancing the bust, narrowing the nose, reducing a double chin, and concealing baldnesshelping portrait photographers sensitively downplay perceived flaws.
Presenting the basic principles and techniques of doll making, this book provides patterns for different shapes of dolls—from the simple stump doll to the more complicated joint doll—as well as practical instruction on needle-sculpting expressive faces using needle and thread embroidery. A wide range of textile techniques fill these pages, as step-by-step instructions take artists through methods of beading, hand and machine embroidering, stamping, dyeing, felting, and quilting. An exciting alternative, the cloth doll represents the perfect medium for textile artists to express their skill and creativity.
