Foolproof Flower Embroidery

Foolproof Flower Embroidery
Author: Jennifer Clouston
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 99
Release: 2021-05-25
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1617459755

Stitch your very own garden Explore your stitching versatility with this comprehensive guide by learning to use any thread and embroidery stitch you desire! Jennifer Clouston shares how to make the most of the thread you already own by introducing hundreds of stitch and fiber combination options to create your own unique flower garden. From textured stems and leaves to colorful bunches of flowers- your end result will look and feel like a true artistic and organic garden.

Foolproof Crazy Quilting

Foolproof Crazy Quilting
Author: Jennifer Clouston
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2014-01-01
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1607057182

“[The author] presents her fabulous crazy quilt composed of colorful fabrics cut in hexagons [and] describes how to take each stitch.” —Publishers Weekly Nothing shows off beautiful stitching and embellishments like the blank canvas of a crazy quilt. Jenny Clouston’s gorgeously illustrated primer shows you how to make your own heirloom crazy quilts. Learn: which fabrics, threads, and needles to use how to piece crazy quilt blocks how to embroider with thread, ribbons, beads, and other embellishments how to assemble your blocks into a finished quilt, and more Included are complete instructions for over 100 embroidery, beading, and embellishment stitches; links to full-size patterns for nine hexagonal crazy quilt blocks; and 25 stitch keys showing proper stitch placement and thread and needle selection for 25 different blocks.

Free-Form Embroidery with Judith Baker Montano

Free-Form Embroidery with Judith Baker Montano
Author: Judith Baker Montano
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2012-10-01
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1607055732

The fiber artist and author of Crazy Quilting Odyssey shares her secrets for creating embroidered landscapes and seascapes in this illustrated guide. Beloved fiber artist and teacher Judith Baker Montano demonstrates how to beyond traditional embroidery in this new and comprehensive to free-form embroidery. In this book full of stunningly photographed examples and watercolor illustrations, she shows you how to apply the principles of fine art to various projects using fabrics, threads, and fibers. Judith explains how to use these materials with other embellishments to convey lifelike trees, flowers, ocean corals, and more with 60 stitches and 67 stitch combinations. She also demonstrates artistic embroidery techniques for building layers, creating dimension and perspective, and blending shapes. With techniques of free-form embroidery, you’ll be able to translate your favorite landscape or seascape photo into fiber art.

The Embroiderer's Garden

The Embroiderer's Garden
Author: Thomasina Beck
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1997
Genre: Cross-stitch
ISBN: 9780715306918

Irresistible sketches adapted from the world's most beautiful gardens--in 80 pages of glorious full color--bring the needleworker a host of great project ideas, all with easy-to-follow instructions and over 150 step-by-step photos. Especially helpful: tips on translating nature's subtle colors and shapes into stitchwork. 192 pages, 88 color illus., 250 b/w illus., 8 3/4 x 12 1/4.

Textured Embroidery

Textured Embroidery
Author: Jenny Bradford
Publisher: Sally Milner Pub
Total Pages: 93
Release: 1993
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781863510769

From the absolute beginner to the experienced embroiderer, this design book has applications across the many forms of textured embroidery. Clear instructions are given for all the relevant techniques and for all the projects detailed.

200 Embroidered Flowers

200 Embroidered Flowers
Author: Kristen Gula
Publisher: David and Charles
Total Pages: 728
Release: 2018-06-13
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1446376486

Learn how to stitch all your favorite flowers, leaves and foliage with this collection of two hundred embroidery patterns. Modern hand embroidery expert, Kristen Gula, explains how to create two hundred beautiful floral motifs using just eight embroidery stitches. Show off your stitching and make unique gifts for friends and family with ten on-trend projects, including accessories and home décor. 200 Embroidered Flowers includes: Complete list of supplies needed to start your hand embroidery journey Seven stitch tutorials including whipped back stitch & French knot Two embroidery pattern transfer methods Two hundred different floral/foliage/plant embroidery patterns including tropical and desert plants, wildflowers, fruits and vegetables and more Ten embroidery projects (to go further with what you learn with the book) including tutorials such as embroidered shirt collars, shoes, appliqués, iron-on patches and more

Plant Lady Embroidery

Plant Lady Embroidery
Author: Applemints
Publisher: Quarry Books
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2020-04-28
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1631598457

Brimming with over 300 botanical motifs, this wonderful resource will provide inspiration and instructions for embroidery artists and flower ladies everywhere. This collection features designs including flowers, ferns, succulents, leaves, bees and garden scenes. The books includes basic embroidery instruction for stitches and transferring designs onto fabric. Original designs and clear instructions make this book a must have for any embroidery enthusiast's library.

The Embroidered Garden

The Embroidered Garden
Author: Kazuko Aoki
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2015-09-01
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1611802660

Whimsical, beautiful embroidery motifs created by an avid gardener—stitch roses, bees, or whole garden scenes. Kazuko Aoki has a unique talent for translating the beauty of the garden with needle and thread. By offering forty motifs, Aoki invites us to explore her gardens through embroidery. The forty motifs explore the roses and wildflowers that appear season to season, as well as the bees and butterflies that enjoy their nectar. The designs here are exquisite, detailed, and artfullly rendered. Beyond the motifs themselves, Aoki also presents projects that feature the embroidery: brooches, notebook covers, pin cushions, and pouches. For those new to embroidery, detailed how-to illustrations are included.

Creative Stitches for Contemporary Embroidery

Creative Stitches for Contemporary Embroidery
Author: Sharon Boggon
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2020-11-25
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1617458783

Find endless inspiration with this photo guide to embroidery stitches. Discover the 120 hand-embroidery stitches that every embroiderer should have in their stitching arsenal, with clear, step-by-step photos you can come back to time and again! Contemporary needlework teacher Sharon Boggon’s forward-thinking ideas will help you view hand embroidery through a vibrant new lens. Beginners and seasoned embroiderers will gain the confidence to create new patterns by playing with the stitches—manipulating the height and width, making asymmetrical loops, stacking up designs, or filling multiple rows with the same stitch. With so many creative variations and the author’s gorgeous samplers, you’ll be inspired to incorporate new techniques in your own crazy quilts and modern projects. Essential guide to surface embroidery! 120 contemporary stitches, including left-hand stitches, with step-by-step photos See how tiny tweaks to each stitch can take your needlework to unexpected places Play up the possibilities with modern fill patterns, asymmetry, luscious texture, and crazy quilting