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Using Glamour Fabrics How to use your handmade glamour fabrics. From "B. Original" episode DBOR-110

B. Original with your own handcrafted fabric!

Handmade glamour fabrics are one-of-a-kind works of art all on their own—but they're also the basis for some fabulous craft creations. Host Michele Beschen and fabric artist Julie McCullough show different ways you can B. Original with your own handcrafted textiles.

You wouldn't want to toss these swatches in the washer, but you can use them is a wide variety of projects. Scroll down for a few ideas.

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Glamour Clutch Purse

A cool clutch helps take any outfit from workday to out-on-the-town. And you won't need to worry about someone else showing up with the same bag when you make it from your own handmade glamour fabric.

	Figure A
	Figure B

• Lay your fabric out face up, and cover with a lining fabric face down. Pin together.

• Stitch a long rectangle in the fabric (figure A). The short end of this rectangle will be the width of your clutch bag; the length will be three times the finished bag's height. Julie McCullough stitches the top of her rectangle at an angle. Leave a gap for turning the bag right-side out.

• Trim away the excess fabric, turn the bag right-side out and stitch the opening closed. Fold the material in thirds lengthwise, and adjust until the clutch is the shape you want.

• Stitch the sides closed and add some decorative cord and a big button (figure B). Now you have a clutch worth hanging on to!

Figure C

Other Projects

• Dress dolls in style. Julie McCullough dresses her signature muse dolls in this type of fabric: It's beautiful in its own right and works well with the dolls' meditative, exotic nature (figure C).

• Upholster something small. Handmade glamour fabrics can make eye-catching throw pillows to add color and spice to décor. You also can use them to cover photo albums or thick picture frames.

• Hang it high. Sew a few fabric tabs to your fabric—possibly using the same velvet you used as its base—and hang them from a dowel bracketed to the wall. It's a modern tapestry you make yourself.

GUESTS :

Julie McCullough
Website: www. magicthreads.com
E-mail: julie@magicthreads.com