It’s book month at Whipup.net
Sew Wild: Creating With Stitch and Mixed Media
Alissa Burke has done an outstanding job with this book. I am in love! Sewing, printing, painting, glueing – to create different effects and gorgeous accessories. The main part of the book is the techniques – detailed instructions on various surface design techniques, along with using and understanding colour and pattern make this book very different from your usual project based books. Along with the techniques are examples – yes! fabulous gorgeous samples of colour, pattern, materials and design.
There are projects too – simple and fun – and made to put your new found skills to work – love the obi belt and graffiti pencil case – pictured above.
Plus a bonus project - make a fish mobile – super cute!
Giveaway now closed
Now because I know you want one of these books – Interweave is generously giving TWO whipup readers a chance to win a book – you also will get an eBook to go along with the print addition. So leave a comment here – letting us know your fave mixed media format – you have 48 hours to enter and winners will be chosen at random and contacted via email. Thanks so much! Winners have been chosen via random number generator – they are: #84 Gravy, and #18 Jinty – you have been contacted via email.
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What a great looking book… My Christmas wish list has expanded (again!). As for my favourite mixed media format… I hate to admit this, but I am a boring/safe crafter and never mix things up! I look at books such as this and realise that I really need help, I need to get out of my comfort zone in order to experiment/take risks with my work!
I love anything with printing on it–love art with text, love fabric with text. I’ve never added text to any of my quilts, but I’m considering doing that. This book looks like it might give me the push I need.
Wow! Cool book :)
My mother in law has a small commercial printer and does t-shirts and lots of other things and I literally have to stop myself from involving her in my craft projects!
The last thing I made was a rainbow coloured combi van mobile for a new baby’s room :)
I’ve never really done anything with mixed media either, but I think something with photographs, fabric and stitching would be interesting – this book certainly looks like it could inspire me.
Looks like a great book for trying some new creative projects. The speaker at my quilt guild las night recommended it also.
I love combining print/writing with paint and paper…be it a painting, a collage or a print, doesn’t matter…I just like the looks and I enjoy words and quotes….One favorite combo is to write large in charcoal/black acrylic over painting and then work around and over the letters or words.
I think this book would help be to learn to have more “fun” sewing …
C
what a fabulous offer! thanks whipup – you never fail to inspire us.
i love mixing fabric with paper – and sewing over the lot
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My kids would really dig this style of art/crafting – it’s so much easier for kids who don’t have as many limitations! Fun stuff!
I love print mixed with sewing and painting is great as well. This book is on my wish list. What a lovely giveaway, thank you. : )
i love the look of this book.
my fav mixed media is …. pencil crayons and ink on a variety of textures
thanks
Betty b
This book is really great and I SO would like to have one. I like to mix lace and felt or lace and heavy fabric like jeans.
This looks like such a fun book! I like to put embroidery everywhere, and I like printing on fabric, and I’m sure I will combine the two (and more) when I’m out from under the kids a bit more. :)
So interesting and inspiring! I love sewing, drawing and painting…but never thought of putting them together to make something. Definitely a must read for me!
Thank you for the giveaway opportunity.
I love anything with text like a word or name added. This book looks wonderful, I have her other book and it’s great too. Thanks so much for the chance!
I LOVE this book! I like to incorporate mixed media into my scrapbooking. Paper, fabric, wire, staples, stitches, whatever I can find.
I don’t know if it is considered mixed media but I like using fabric paints, embroidery, and fabric. This book looks fantastic.
This promises to be an exciting new book of mixed media techniques for adding layers and textural interest to any art quilt. I like using thermofax and Photo EZ screens for printing, and am experimenting with various forms of image transfer.
If you combine me and paint it gets very, very messy… but occasionally it turns out pretty cool, I’m always using buttons in unconventional ways, and I have been known to embroider some of my doodles onto clothing.
I would love to learn how to use a sewing machine to ‘draw’ on fabric. the results are so cool! Nothing better than an inspirational book filled with lots of glossy pictures to get me feeling creative.
I’m planning a small quilt with photographs…maybe I’ll add a little embroidery or painting to mix the media even further. I don’t have any eperience with this, but I’ll call it my favorite form of mixed media anyway!
I love her blog and how amazingly creative she is. Redefine Creativity and that she does! Perfect for a summer of crafting
I love her blog and how amazingly creative she is. Redefine Creativity – and that she does! I do it all – fabric and paint and food dye and clay and plaster and pva glue and pen and water colour – not yet have I painted my hall way floor but she is so inspiring I might just do it! Congratulations on your bubba Alissa xx
I love mixed with sewing and painting is great as well,
but never thought of putting them together to make something
This book is on my wish list.
What a lovely giveaway, thank you. : )
I like stamping on fabric and sewing. Love the book, it looks great!
I’ve never really done anything with mixed media, but am very interested in starting some projects!
I would really like to try block printing with hand embroidery. Currently this seems to be my favorite
I love paint on fabric! And stitches on paper. Can’t wait to see this book.
This book looks so inspiring! I love the combination of stitching over printed or painted patterns.
this book looks very interesting. i love the idea of painting fabric, it’s something i would love to look at in this book.
This book looks fantastic !! Gotta tell Santa Claus I need it :)
I love to paint fabric, and I usually use stencils. I’d love to get into block printing.
I have not explored with mixed media — other than doing some fabric printing/embordery on some sewing projects….but it something that I would like to explore more (after the christmas crafting crazyiness is over! Thanks for the chance to win!
I love collage and assemblage with found objects. I’ve got a fish hanging in my living room made from grapevine, a beach badge, the metal part of a clipboard and the top of a hanger. I love to mix it up, and I love Alissa’s work – it’s so inspirational.
Wow, looks like a great book which I’d love a copy of. I’ve recently been trying out printing with stencils and various mark making tools which I’ve found fun and yet so different from stitching.
My favorite has to be art journaling–with pens, doodles, collage, etc. I just wish I had more time!
What a nice giveaway! Looks like a fabulous book! I’m really a fan of digitally altered photos printed on fabric and incorporated into pieced quilts, but am always looking for fun new techniques!
This book looks great! I love art Journalling- mixing in old ledger papers, vintage wallpaper, photos I’ve taken and sewing them into the pages. Having a personalized page to start with makes the writing come so much easier. I would love to se some of these techniques on my pages.
I love mixing fabric with paper, especially in art journals.
Love the book. If I don’t win this will go on my wish list as it’s got some great projects. I love making miniature postcards which involve sewing, glueing, painting and anything I can lay my hands on.
I’m a “vanilla” crafter. I’ve yet to try mixed media, but it sounds like fun!
I like combining paper and fabric! Thanks for sharing, would love to win!
I have always loved Alisa Burke and her crafts. Her blog is so full of colour and inspiration.. would love to win this book.. Thanks for the giveaway!
i love stitching on paper!
This looks a great book! I like adding words to things – everything really!
I love paper collage, but I am interested in fabrics too. Thanks for the giveaway!
What a cool book! So far I haven’t ventured into mixed media, but I really want to try!
I really enjoyed making altered books and will go back to it again when my kids are not so little and I have more “chunks” of time. One of my favorite pieces involved ironing freezer paper onto muslin and running it through my inkjet printer, and using gel medium and packing tape for transfers. Very fun, and there is no “right answer.”
Crossing my fingers and hoping to win a copy of the book!
I like to add paint to fabric, as well as metals, feathers and angelina fibers.
Thanks for this opportunity.
Wanna wanna wanna have!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wild heart needs wild ideas – to make new wild Hearts! Would love to have this book, definitely…
I like to collage all kinds of things and embellish my quilts with beads and other found objects.
eeeeee! want!
my favorite would have to be anything i make with materials from my craft box. buttons, yarn, ribbon, cut outs from magazine, etc, i love just making random things.
Oh, wow! This is right up my alley. Looks like a great book!
Recently I tried my first mixed media project by painting a canvas and then embellishing it with embroidery, it was a lot of fun since I rarely get to paint.
I sew all the time but don’t do much mixed media. Perhaps having this book would give me incentive to branch out into new skills!
Wow, this book looks fabulous! I’m just starting to use the sewing machine using quilting stitch. My favourite mixed media is probably paint, paper and fabric
I like printing on fabric sheets and completed a sewing room embroidery sampler where printed the motif on poplin in a matching color. Worked well. Thanks for the giveaway.
What an amazing looking book. At the moment I am loving to applique and or embroidery and or draw with my fabric markers on every project I am making from aprons to clutch purses to little dresses and tops to give as Christmas presents.
I love using fabric in jewerly. And embroidery. And…everything. I love everything. I would LOVE this book!
I LOVE all Mixed Media – so can’t say one favourite!
I put this book on my Want List when Alisa announced she was writing it. It looks AWESOME!!!
Wow what a great Chrissy present this would make! To myself of course ;)
Well we all need a little spoiling!
What a book. some great ideas!!
I love Alisa Burke and I would love to have this book! Looks awesome! I have 2 favorite mixed media formats: altered books and found object dolls! I love adding fabric, paint, small objects, pictures, etc. to old books to give them new life. I also love making dolls out of unexpected objects like a tea strainer or candlestick to name a couple! Thanks for the chance to win!!!
That book looks AMAZING! I will definitely check it out! I really need to learn free-hand sewing/quilting – it looks so awesome!
I like to make small projects with fabric & ric rac. It’s a new love, but I LOVE ric-rac!!!
:)
I enjoy making cards that combine different materials/techniques – photos, text, paper, ribbon, etc. I also embroider felt balls with seed beads to be used in jewelry. The more texture I can combine into one piece, the better.
I love painting on fabric and sewing projects from that. While in college, I became inspired by the work of Faith Ringgold. Her quilt paintings are amazing. I’ve always drawn and painted and couldn’t wait to incorporate that into fabric projects once I began learning to sew.
That book looks fabulous! My fave mixed media format would be wonderful curly willow branches, little rusty metal pieces and bits and pieces of anything I find intriguing that I find out in nature. These items are woven or stitched onto fabric that has been dyed or painted. Thank you for such a wonderful give-a-way!
I have not tried any mixed media projects yet. I just started getting into sewing and quilting this fall. I’d love the chance to try something new. Thanks for the giveaway.
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Ooh – impossible to pick a favorite but I love printing & painting fabric then stitching & quilting & embroidering. Texture!
I love making collages and using paint, fabrics, and natural materials in them.
I love paints with beads on glass. Also screen printing and embroidery on fabric.
melodyj(at)gmail(dot)com
I love to use tissue paper, mod podge, and colored wire!! I make a “drawing” with a piece of wire, then use colored tissue paper to encase the wire. I use mod podge to make the paper stiff and shiny. Trim paper around the wire, and viola!!
I’ve never tried mixed media; but i want to because it looks so eye-catching!!! :)
I like to mix painting and collage. I’d love to learn to do more with fabric painting and sewing collage.
I love combining sewing, embroidery and quliting to create special collages, This book looks like it would give me so many more ideas.
I’ve not done any mixed media, but if I ever should it would be words and bright colors together.
I love to print on everything, fabric, paper, wood…
The book looks fantastic!
This book looks awesome – I love all the diagrams and suggestions for making contrast with stitch.
I hope I’m not too late to get in on this giveaway. The book looks great (as does your own recent effort!).
I would love, love, love to win this one! Her work really speaks to me. Thanks!!
I’m such a craft-loving geek at heart and just don’t get the opportunity to do it as often as I would like. This book looks AMAZING! Maybe this would be enough motivation to start doing more!
Sorry… forgot to mention my fav media… I love, love, love the free-motion stitching!
oh boy, I borrowed this book from the library and it’s on my wishlist. I love Alisa’s works! Most of my mixed media projects are made using paper, fabric scraps, modelling paste and paints. Next, I’d like to make more art with larger pieces of fabric – including dyed fabric.
I love watercolor and ink with paper sculpture!
I really like to stretch for unexpected combinations, creating things that are both tactile and visually exciting. My favorite outcomes usually involve things like wood or metal and textiles, with some form of printing and/or needlework. I love learning and incorporating new techniques, which is why this book just draws me in!
Thanks!!!
I love fabric & crayons for kids’ quilts!
This looks like a great book! Wow! So much to look at. I’d love to be able to try some of these techniques, jump out of “my box” hehe. I have not tried any mix media art, yet. I’ve made picture art quilt wallhangings but I followed a pattern. I’d love to try something “free form”.
Thanks for the giveaway and a chance to win.
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Well, I’ve managed to print on fabric and include in a small quilt – bet this book would help get me out of my tiny comfort zone!
I love repurposing stuff, so I combine all sorts of things from wood, metal, old magazines, cereal boxes etc. I also love learning new techniques!
Rad book! I just tried free-form sewing for the first time the other day and loved it! My fave mixed media is embroidery/fabric/paint/found objects.
Thanks!
I love Alisa Burke’s work. I recently did her online course, “Beneath the Surface” and loved it – would love to win the book!
I just love Alisa Burke! I love to incorporate fabric and sewing onto my canvas paintings! Keeping an art journal has inspired me to try mixing materials. Thanks for the awesome give-away!
Great giveaway! I love a hard book rather than ebook
Where does one begin when one feels they must compromise their love of other mediums, whether in fiber, texture, paint, and stitch, in order to create? With the possibility of winning a copy of this book, my quest appears to be solved. Thanks for introducing me to Alisa Burke!
I love the idea of being able to incorporate my own photos into a fabric project – it can really personalise things and gives you so much scope to express yourself.