For a dream wedding that doesn't create a nightmare budget, simply gather up things from your home, your garden, and nature...then work a little magic transformation! An acclaimed author and designer--who has written for such magazines as Good Housekeeping, Women's Day, and more--presents a host of elegant ideas for celebrating your special day in an inexpensive yet rich manner. You won't believe how easily ordinary plastic dishes and stemware can become part of a sophisticated and stylishly original arrangement for serving food to your guests. Or how simple it is to fashion memorable decorations that also become much appreciated thank-yous or home decorations after the festivities. And, with a touch of creativity, fabrics from the bargain store make bright backgrounds for the reception tables and establish a color scheme for the entire reception. You'll feel like a wonderful wizard, turning what was simple into beautiful...and within your budget!

Wedding Decorations on a Budget

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Gourley, Miriam

Crafts & Hobbies

Sterling/Chapelle

“A simple, old-fashioned concept...Mother-daughter team Stone and Lowe have obviously perfected the how-tos... theirs begins by telling all—materials, tools, and the basic shaping and attachment instructions. There are more than 35 projects with dolls fashioned on zoo and farm creatures as well as anthropomorphic beings....Color photographs are plentiful.”—Booklist.

Beautiful Animal Dolls: Handcrafts to Treasure

A host of elegant ideas for celebrating your special day in an inexpensive yet elegant manner. With a touch of creativity, bargain store fabrics make bright backgrounds for the reception tables. You’ll feel like a wizard, turning simple into beautiful. “Heartwarming....Dozens of romantic ideas.”—Crafts. “These ideas are excellent for any kind of celebration, including birthdays, anniversaries, and baby and wedding showers. It’s chock-full.”—CreativeCrafter.com.

These creatively designed lion, elephant, “frogette,” barnyard fowl, bunny, and bear dolls all have imaginative costumes and expressions that will melt your heart. With easy to follow patterns, a gallery, and clever commentary throughout. “A delight.”—Doll Castle News.

Making Adorable Animal Dolls: Handcrafts to Treasure

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Crafting Cloth Dolls features complete, step-by-step instructions for 10 exquisite fabric dolls. Patterns spotlight designs by top artists, including Barbara Chapman, Elise Peeples, and Brenda Gehl, and talented newcomers such as Annie Moon. Everything you need to know to create original dolls is here--how to form the body, paint the face, make and style hair, and costume the doll. With glorious full-color photographs of 100 dolls and detailed color drawings throughout, these pages are bursting with creative inspiration for both beginning and experienced dollmakers. Lesson planning and resource lists are included.

Crafting Cloth Dolls

McGraw=Hill

Provides patterns and instructions for making Christmas quilts, wall hangings, ornaments, and decorations, and includes several holiday recipes

Simply Christmas: Craft Projects for the Season of Giving

Quilt Digest

Makes the fine art of making cloth dolls accessible to anyone, while still challenging the talents of experienced dollmakers. Features a collection of exquisite dolls by 10 noted dollmakers, including Elinor Peace Bailey, Becky Shuttle, and Christine Shively. Each doll comes with complete patterns and instructions, plus tips on faces, hair, and embellishments.

Cloth Dolls : How to Make Them

Quilters looking for a faster, easier way to use appliqu? and add
 texture to their projects will love this book! Author Miriam 
Gourley has compiled tips and techniques from her years of 
quilting and appliqu? experience in Quilt and Sew Fanciful Folk
 Art. 
Readers will create whimsical folk art quilts with Gourley?s 
surefire appliqu? techniques, and add texture with threads, 
layers of fabric, felt, buttons, trapunto and more. Streamlined 
techniques for perfect sharp points, rounded sides and straight 
edges guarantee success in stitching a variety of pieces, which 
are then appliqu?d onto the quilt top. The book includes a 
chapter containing templates and patterns, and encourages 
readers to design their own projects using the methods from 
the book once they?ve mastered the techniques. Step-by-step 
instructions and illustrations guide quilters through 20 gorgeous
 folk art projects.

Quilt And Sew Fanciful Folk Art

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Krause Pubns Inc

Provides patterns and instructions for making a variety of animal dolls, as well as toy furniture

Whimsical Animals: Dolls to Make from Fabric

UNKNO

Dollmaking for the first time

Cloth dolls and wooden dolls; life-size figures and those as small as clothespins; dolls as ornaments and a complete set of dolls—like a miniature family: oh, what a beautiful doll you can make with this well-illustrated guide at your side. As with all the acclaimed For the First Time books, it teaches the basics, from preparing the patterns to painting the face and styling the hair. The techniques unspool in an easy-to-follow question and answer form—How do I make a simple cloth doll? How do I make a doll with button-on joints?—accompanied by a project. Above all, every page encourages crafters to break the rules, use their imagination, and find ways of making each doll special and personal.

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Books by Gourley, Miriam

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Wedding Decorations on a Budget

Beautiful Animal Dolls: Handcrafts to Treasure

Wedding Decorations on a Budget

Making Adorable Animal Dolls: Handcrafts to Treasure

Crafting Cloth Dolls

Simply Christmas: Craft Projects for the Season of Giving

Cloth Dolls : How to Make Them

Quilt And Sew Fanciful Folk Art

Whimsical Animals: Dolls to Make from Fabric

Dollmaking for the first time