Abby glassenberg biography
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I am sooooo excited today! 😀
Why?
Well, today I get to do something new … my very first book review. But I’m not reviewing just any old book. I have been waiting to get my hands on this book for about 12 months. No, it’s not hard to get or out of print, it’s brand new – hot off the presses – released for the very first time earlier this month.
So why have I been waiting 12 months for a book that has only just been published & why
am I so excited about it? Let me take you back to the early part of last year …
Early last year I found myself needing to find work. Not an easy thing for someone has been a stay-at-home mum with very little work experience or recognisable skill living in a regional area. Because hubby & I have been self-employed most of our married life to idea of self-employment was not a scary thought, but the question was WHAT!
I looked at what skill I have – mostly crafty type things like knitting & sewing, & so the idea of making toys & selling them online was born. Right from the beginning I knew I wanted to eventually make my own designs, but I had no idea of how to draft a pattern for a toy. I have studied dressmaking & understand to principles behind design
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My name is Abby Glassenberg and I'm a sewing pattern designer, craft book author, and sewing teacher. I live in Wellesley, MA and work out of my home studio. I'm also the mom to three daughters. I sew every single day! I design and make original soft toys and soft sculptures. For several years I worked exclusively on creating soft sculpture birds of every variety, from flamingos to penguins, from larks to peacocks. This work culminated in The Artful Bird: Feathered Friends to Make and Sew. Writing this book was an amazing experience and seeing other people create their own birds based on my patterns brings me so much joy! I'm so pleased that The Artful Bird was named a top 10 craft book of 2011 on the ALA Booklist! My second book, Stuffed Animals: From Concept to Construction, was published by Lark in the spring of 2013. My goal with this book is to help you design and create your own, original softie patterns by showing how soft toy construction works. Everything from creating a simple outline toy to an advanced jointed toy with gussets and darts is explained in detail. The book has 16 new projects accompanied by 52 lessons which break down the patterns and explain how they were constructed. This book is both a project book and a reference book and I hope you l