Making Faces in Fabric: Workshop with Melissa Averinos

by Melissa Averinos

Overview

Learn appliqué techniques to create a face and add it to any textile craft project.

Discover how to create freeform, raw-edge appliqué faces using Melissa Averinos’s fun, creative process. Melissa walks you through the process step by step, from a comprehensive lesson on drawing the face, to translating your sketch into fabric, to stabilizing the piece with stitching, to incorporating your stylized face into a finished project, whether it’s a pillow, tote, shirt, or stretched canvas! Learn how to make a variety of eyes, noses, lips, hair, and face shapes, as well as how to create facial features in just the right proportions. You’ll be amazed by how good the final portrait looks!

• Personalize your fabric collage! Learn several different ways of creating facial features

• Comprehensive lessons on fabric choices, color, and shading

• Includes inspirational galleries of work from Melissa and her students

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781617455452
Publisher:	C & T Publishing
Publication date:	07/30/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	243
File size:	45 MB
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About the Author

Melissa Averinos is a fabric designer, painter, and award-winning quilter. She is also a regular contributor to quilt and craft magazines. She lives on Cape Cod with her adorable husband and their two golden retrievers.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: Draw
Head Proportions and Markers of the Face
Features
---Eyes
---Nose
---Mouth
Hair
Chapter 2: Collage
Supplies
---Fabric
--------------Solids
--------------Prints
-------------------Best Prints to Use
-------------------Prints to Avoid
---Adhesives
--------------Glue Stick
--------------Liquid Glue
--------------Fusible Web
Tools
---Scissors
---Tweezers
Instructions
---Markers of the Face
---Eyes
---Nose
---Mouth
---Chin
---Hair
---Ears
---Additional Details
--------------Cheeks, Jawline, Wrinkles
Chapter 3: Stitch
Stabilizers
Thread
Stitching
---Freemotion Stitching
---‘Regular' Sewing
---Simple Stitching Patterns
--------------Parallel Lines
--------------Grid
--------------Around the Edges
---Basic Stitching Instructions
Chapter 4: Show
Simple Projects to Showcase Your Collage
---Pillow
---Restyled Denim Shirt
---Embellished Tote
---Wall Art
Gallery of Student Work
Gallery of Author's Work
About the Author