Making Faces in Fabric: Workshop with Melissa Averinos

by Melissa Averinos

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

227 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 1, 2018

About the author

Author of Small Stash Sewing: 24 Projects Using Designer Fat Quarters. Fabric designer, shopgirl, painter, Cape Codder, good listener, lover of pie, fan of unicorns.

Reviews

[Donna · Rating 5 out of 5]

I absolutely adore this book on making faces in fabric. The book takes you through the basics of drawing a head and features, with tips on how to make a face unique. Melissa then goes on to explain how fabric pieces can be placed and applied on the base fabric to create the face. Colour, texture and embroidery is also touched upon as a means to turn faces into fabric works of art. I love the student section and highlights. It shows how we all see and conjure up faces so differently. I also love the projects. I cannot wait to make fabric faces!

[jimtown · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a fun and fantastic reference book to learn to stitch faces in fabric. It's very thorough and I'd like to keep a copy in the sewing room to look at in hopes of learning this technique. Once learned, there's no limit to how far you can go with this idea. Love it!

[NiYa Costley · Rating 4 out of 5]

clear concise easy directions. Am stuck a little on how to make multicultural hair and that is not really addressed in the book but I will play and see what I come up with

[Cyndi]

What a fun book!

[Betty Jaske · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is great..

[Jaime Lyerly · Rating 4 out of 5]

I wish there was more about hand sewing these for people who don't have sewing machines and/or quilting options. It does feel doable to try though. Excited to see what I can create with this.