
Book Wraps are great projects to make either for yourself or to give as gifts. They are easy to make and offer the perfect opportunity to express your creative self through your use of embellishment.
This project demonstrates a technique for making fabric using Decorative Stitch “Art Lace”, and then using the resulting fabric to make a Book Wrap.
Decorative Stitch “Art Lace” is made by sewing overlapping rows of decorative stitches onto a piece of water soluble stabilizer. The soft lace pieces are intended to appear haphazardly sewn with stitches gently falling away to reveal irregular shaped holes and stitch clusters, adding a very contemporary appearance to your projects.
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I love to use water soluble stabilizer for making embellishments, and fabric pieces, and other unusual textural elements for my quilts.
Making fabric pieces is very easy; all you need to get started is some thick water soluble stabilizer, and some yarn or decorative threads.
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In an earlier tutorial I showed you how to make “Decorative Stitch Art Lace” using the decorative stitches on your sewing machine and water soluble stabilizer. “Decorative Stitch Art Lace” has an irregular shape and a contemporary appearance and can be used in art quilts as focus or background pieces.
This tutorial explains how to make this lace using the circular sewing attachment.
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Introduction

Water soluble stabilizer offers great opportunities for art quilters to get very creative. Decorative lacework, needle-lace, lace inserts, embellishments—the possibilities are endless!
Combining water soluble stabilizer and the decorative stitches on your sewing machine is a creative way to make “art lace” which is lace with irregular shape and a contemporary appearance. This type of “art lace” can be used in art quilts as focus or background pieces.
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Learn how easy it is to make “see-through” designs for your art quilts with this free pattern and design.
Stitch one or two rows of straight stitch to stabilize the design.

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