Vintage Flowers Rag Quilt & Pillow - Paperback

by Vicki Becker (Author)

Color your world! Coloring allows you to explore your creativity and is very relaxing, but you can do so much more than just color on paper! The Coloring Book Craft series will take your love of coloring to a whole new level! You can create beautiful handmade coloring book crafts for yourself or for gift giving. Vintage Flowers Rag Quilt & Pillow is the first book in this exciting series. This book has 56 floral designs and instructions on how to make a throw size rag quilt and envelope pillow cover. There are also instructions for transferring the designs to fabric, coloring, and embroidery. Crayon tinted and embroidered designs were very popular in America from the 1920's until the mid-1940's. Iron-on transfers were used, colored with crayons, heat set, and then hand embroidered. Homemakers made household items such as table linens, pillows, dish towels, and quilts. This coloring activity book will explain how to transfer the coloring book designs onto fabric, color, heat set, and then embroider or highlight the designs with ink. Embroidery is a great way to add a special touch to your coloring projects requiring only a few basic inexpensive tools and materials that you can find in any craft store. All you really need to get started is a needle, floss, embroidery hoop, and fabric. Crafters of all skill levels find embroidery one of the easiest and most addictive ways to personalize everyday objects. Using this book for craft projects is easy! Trace or scan and print the designs as many times as you wish to use for crafting or just to color. Enlarging or reducing the designs to fit your projects as needed. Use them for sewing, quilting, and embroidery projects or embellish ready-made items such as t-shirts, tote bags, and aprons. This beautiful book is also perfect for coloring with your choice of pencils, markers, gel pens or crayons. When coloring in the book place a piece of paper behind the page you are coloring to absorb markers or gel pens that may bleed through. Scan and print the designs to use with card stock, note cards, or specialty papers. The floral designs create a relaxing artistic experience that anyone can enjoy and once completed are ideal for card making, framing, and gift-giving. I hope you will enjoy using the designs in this unique coloring crafts book.

Author Biography

Vicki Becker has been knitting and crocheting for over 48 years. She learned to crochet from her grandmother in the beautiful Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York where she grew up. Vicki and her mother were very active in the local 4-H club throughout her childhood. Her mother taught her to sew as she was left-handed and Vicki was not. In addition to sewing, cooking, public speaking, and dog training, the 4-H Club taught Vicki many needlework skills which included hand embroidery, and knitting. Today Mrs. Becker is an avid needlework enthusiast who loves to share her knowledge and experience through her books. She saw a need for instructional books which were clearly illustrated and easy to understand. Vicki designs patterns for crochet, knitting, hand embroidery, and quilting. All her needlework books have clearly written instructions with photographs.