Wild Women: Stitched Art Brooches (Twenty to Make)

Nov 08

Two delightful A5 books from a series of titles called Twenty to Make. Wild Women refers to the characters featured and depicted as stitched art brooches. They are all fun, wild and wacky, made from easily accessible materials and open to interpretation. Basic tools include felt, scissors, needles (including a beading needle), sewing and embroidery threads and brooch backs. Some experience of free machine embroidery may be required for some of the projects.

Beaded Felt Jewellery combines two of today's craft trends. Helen shows how to use the humble felt square to create sophisticated and fashionable jewellery without the need for specialist materials or wet, soapy hands. All designs are based around eight simple methods for binding and decorating felt beads.

Winter 08

A unique and intriguing book. The Wild Women designs are very original using many methods of creating these fascinating brooches. If you are looking for something different to make the ideas in this book will certainly arouse your curiosity. Lists of materials and full working instructions are clear and concise and will provide the stitches for these easily made, unusual jewellery items.

Barbara Hector, St Stephens-in-Brannel

Sarah Lawrence spent ten years teaching art and textiles in secondary schools in Yorkshire, before leaving to start her family. She gained distinctions in her City & Guilds in Creative Embroidery, and is now a freelance textile artist and tutor, continuing to develop her own work, exhibiting widely, giving talks, demonstrations and workshops and undertaking commissions. Recently she has done a postgraduate course to support all the work she has done over the last ten years with the elderly and disadvantaged young people. Sarah runs many courses on felting, embroidery, beading and surface construction for a diverse range of groups. Details can be found on her website www.sarah-lawrence.com. She also owns and runs craftynotions.com. She lives in Newark.