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| Introduction | |
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| Designing the Collage | |
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| But I Don't Know How to Sew! | |
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| Finding Inspiration | |
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| Translating Inspiration into Designs | |
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| Creating a Sample Collage | |
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| Design Principles: Assessing Your Work | |
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| Developing a Fabric Stash | |
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| Assessing Your Stash | |
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| Finding Your Inner Landscape of Color | |
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| Choosing Fabrics for Variety and Emphasis | |
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| Preparing and Storing Fabrics | |
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| Free-Motion Sewing | |
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| Machine-Quilting with an Attitude | |
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| This Old Machine Is Going to Do What? | |
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| Putting the Right Foot Forward | |
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| Getting Started on Free-Motion Stitching | |
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| Using Novelty Threads | |
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| Stitching Techniques to Embellish Your Collage | |
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| Basic Finishing Techniques | |
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| It All Comes Out in the Wash | |
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| Shaping Up the Collage | |
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| Finishing the Edges: A Nontraditional Approach | |
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| Final Laundering | |
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| Creativity Begets Creativity | |
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| Collaging a Vest | |
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| Designing a Vest Collage | |
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| Modifying a Vest Pattern for Collage | |
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| Identifying Your Size | |
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| Fitting the Vest Pattern | |
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| Making a Clean Copy of the Pattern | |
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| Making a Muslin Shell | |
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| Cutting Out the Muslin Underlining | |
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| Cutting Out the Lining | |
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| Collaging the Vest | |
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| Making the Lining | |
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| Free-Motion Stitching on a Garment | |
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| Using Your Pattern to Cut Out the Laundered Vest | |
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| Camouflaging the Shoulder Seams | |
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| Finishing the Edges | |
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| Collage for Outerwear | |
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| Choosing a Pattern | |
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| How Much Collage Is Too Much Collage? | |
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| Planning Placement of the Collage | |
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| Selecting Fabrics for Collaged Outerwear | |
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| Constructing a Coat | |
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| Constructing an Unlined Sleeveless Tunic | |
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| Camounflaging Seams | |
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| Linings Alive: Enhancing the Other Side of Artwear | |
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| To Line or Not to Line | |
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| Selecting a Lining Fabric | |
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| Flat Lining a Collaged Garment | |
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| Embellishing Linings | |
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| Bringing Closure to the Task | |
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| Which Is the Right Button? | |
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| Jazzy Closures | |
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| Care of Special Buttons | |
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| Snappy Closures | |
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| Manila-Envelope Closures | |
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| Brass-Hasp Closures | |
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| Little Extras Mean a Lot | |
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| Adding Prairie Points | |
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| Making Plied Cords | |
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| Adding Tassels | |
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| Applying Shisha Mirrors and Flat Disks by Machine | |
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| Resources | |
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| Index | |