20 to Craft: Fabric Buttons, Paperback

Trendy subject for sewing enthusiasts and crafters, making fabric buttons is fun and very creative. Fabric buttons are used by dressmakers, quilters, jewelry makers and mixed media artists. 20 fun and easy to make projects to inspire your crafting fun

20 crafty ideas to make a button or cover an existing button with fabric. Techniques include stitching, embroidery, beading, and multi layers of embellishment, and all the projects will require small quantities of materials and no specialist equipment.

All of the buttons in the book can be used for fastenings, as well as for embellishments and decorations for other projects, including quilting, jewellery and home decor. With 20 designs and variations, the book teaches all the basics and some special techniques plus inspiration you need to design and create fabric buttons of your own.

Gina Barrett is a partner of Gina-B Silkworks, a company that seeks to bring traditional textile crafts and techniques to a modern audience. She has appeared regularly on the Create & Craft TV channel (since 2011) where she demonstrates her kits, and teaches workshops. Gina has provided reconstructions of buttons, passementerie and costume accessories for theatre, film and television, museums and stately homes, costumiers and private individuals since 1999. She has also provided couture and modern bespoke trimmings using traditional techniques for designers and artists (both clothing and interior). These include varied commissions from buttons for film and TV, tassels for Buckingham Palace Mews, and woven fringes and girdles for historic reconstruction. Gina is a trained illustrator, with a background in historical and diagram illustration and graphic design. Her passion for textiles grew from studying historical costume for her illustrative work.