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Stitch your very own horticultural haven with What Delilah Did. Step into Miranda Merriweather’s magnificent secret garden, where lucky clovers grow in spades and the towering tulips reach six feet tall. This whimsical collection of botanical-inspired needlework projects will take you from budding novice to confident stitcher as you explore a variety of simple counted embroidery techniques. Bursting with colour and filled with designs to suit a range of abilities, you needn’t be green-fingered to recreate a slice of this magical rural retreat in your own home. Keep your eyes open for beautiful Lacewing Butterflies, Arbour Alphabet Flags, a super-sweet Milk and Honey Bee and a naughty little Early Bird called Gerald who is guaranteed to brighten up your summer. Projects are design-led, practical and colourful, and many can be completed within a weekend. The style is light and folksy but still retains What Delilah Did's signature pared-down and stylish aesthetic. Materials are high quality, with an emphasis on texture and sophisticated colours. Florals play a large part, but are beautiful and modern rather than flouncy, ranging from folky to botanical in style.
Stumpwork is a highly decorative and imaginative embroidery technique, which typically uses raised and padded stitches that are rich in texture. This practical book explains how to create your own piece of stumpwork embroidery. Beginning with an introduction to the appropriate materials, equipment and tools, it instructs on a wide range of stitches and techniques, and illustrates them with ten delightful projects. It then explains how to design your own piece of stumpwork before advising on finishing, presenting and caring for you work. Written by a leading embroiderer, this beautiful book will inspire and encourage you to try this exciting technique and create your own exquisite designs. Contents include: Practical advice on working with threads, as well as how to stretch and prepare fabrics; Over 900 photographs to guide the reader through a wide range of decorative and raised stitches; Detailed instructions on combining stumpwork with a range of other techniques to create unique designs; Ten projects show how to use the stitches in designs, including stumpwork human figures. This practical guide will be of great interest to embroiderers, designers, theatre designers, interior designers and historians, and is beautifully illustrated with 983 colour photographs.
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.
This book has over 100 floral and garden theme embroidery patterns. The patterns include: a floral garden cottage, an autumn cottage, bee gardens, bluebells, forget-me-nots, lily of the valley, autumn garland, winter garland, Christmas roses, strawberry flowers, bramble bee designs, cherry blossom flowers, birds, bees, butterflies, ladybirds, dragonflies, toadstools, acorns, floral arch, a flower well, beehives, flower baskets, pretty bouquets, a flower shop -- and lettering patterns for the words Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter, Daisy and Love. Most of the patterns use stranded cotton embroidery thread (floss), but crewelwork patterns (wool embroidery) are included. The crewel wool patterns can also be stitched with cotton embroidery thread if preferred. The stitches and thread colours are suggestions. You can of course use your own favourite stitches and threads to sew the patterns if you prefer. The patterns are ideal for hand stitching and hoop embroidery. The designs are based on De-ann Black''s original artwork. De-ann designed and stitched the patterns. The flowers are an artistic representation of real flowers. Many of the patterns have a seasonal theme including -- spring bouquet, summer lettering, floral summer bee garden, autumn floral cottage and winter garland. The Love lettering has a spring, summer, autumn & winter design. There are roses, cornflowers, sunflowers, orange blossom, apple blossom, thistles, poppies, foxgloves, iris, violet, aster, night scented stock, coral bells, jasmine, water lily, tulips, daffodils, pansies, delphiniums, grape hyacinth, Cupid''s dart, looking glass flowers, Queen Anne''s lace, million bells, trillium, chocolate cosmos, chocolate daisies, zinnia, lilac, heliotrope, hellebore, magnolia, gypsophila, a gardenia tree, gerbera, freesia, marigold, moonflower, anemone, autumn hawkbit, bellflowers and blue daisies. The book contains full-size patterns on single sided pages so you can trace the patterns on to fabric ready for embroidering. The pattern instructions are at the back of the book. Book website: The website shows detailed colour photographs of the main embroidery designs. It includes videos showing how De-ann traces her patterns on to fabric, and her methods for stitching some of the designs -- with links to her YouTube channel where you can see more of her embroidery stitching methods including: satin stitch, back stitch, whipped running stitch, whipped back stitch, stem stitch, outline stitch, French knots, Colonial knots, closed fly stitch, trailing stitch, couching, split stitch, seed stitch, chain stitch, ribbed spider web stitch, whitework, goldwork and crewelwork embroidery. A link to the book''s website is at the back of the book. Please note: This is a book of embroidery patterns. You will need to trace the patterns on to fabric. De-ann''s method is included in a video on the book''s website. Take a look at De-ann''s Amazon Author page to see her latest sewing theme romance books including: The Sewing Shop, The Sewing Bee, The Quilting Bee and The Dressmaker''s Cottage. About the Author: De-ann Black is a bestselling author, scriptwriter and former newspaper journalist. She has over 80 books published. Romance, thrillers, various fiction and non-fiction books. De-ann is also a professional artist, illustrator and designer. Fabric design, embroidery, dressmaking, sewing, knitting and fashion are part of her work. Additionally, De-ann has always been interested in fitness, and was a fitness and bodybuilding champion, 100 metre runner and mountaineer. As a former N.A.B.B.A. Miss Scotland, she had a weekly fitness show on the radio that ran for over three years. De-ann trained in Shukokai karate, boxing, kickboxing, Dayan Qigong & Jiu Jitsu. She is currently based in Scotland. Her embroidery design books & colouring books are available in paperback on Amazon.
A collection of stylish cross stitch designs where Thea Gouverneur invites stitchers to share her passion by copying the natural beauty of well-loved flowers through the art of the needle. Her fresh style is charcteristic of European designs.
Master the textures and shapes of topiary, hedges, walls, paths and water features, to produce beautiful miniature gardens that are blooming with flowers and bursting with colour. Specialist techniques and simple instructions combine in this practical guide that inspires the reader to create their own textured, three-dimensional designs on canvas. From the spectacular reds, browns and burnished gold of autumn to the vibrant greens and refreshing blues of spring, these exquisite embroidered gardens encompass a variety of styles and historical periods – there is a design here to suit all tastes and abilities. Step-by-step instructions guide the reader through the appropriate stitches and techniques needed to achieve these stunning effects. The techniques covered include canvas stitches, stump work, ribbon embroidery, knitting and wire work, each one is easy to follow and fully illustrated with detailed line drawings.
A colorful collection of 15 projects aimed at embroiderers of all levels of experience Here is a celebration of colorful projects in surface embroidery celebrating the seasonal flowers and fruits of the English garden. The book combines surface techniques with traditional designs in an exciting way, producing depth and other realistic effects which will delight and instruct embroiderers of all levels of experience. Full instructions, working diagrams, and color illustrations are used to explain the projects, while a separate section on stitches and techniques provides additional support.
Collecting insects, and displaying them, has long been the delight of natural history enthusiasts. In the 19th century, collecting butterflies and moths as serried rows in specimen boxes, or as decorative patterns in framed pictures, was a popular pursuit. Faithful to the tradition of these collectors, the Moth and Butterfly Specimen Box in this book is the third in Jane's series of stumpwork insect boxes.
In this work readers will learn how to develop vivid, original designs and then choose the best fabrics, threads, and embellishments to create special effects that bring the flowers to life. Also included are more than 20 floral studies to help you get to grips with nature's wonderful shapes.
At Play in the Garden of Stitch provides ways to think about how thread and fabric can bring depth to composition, texture to emotions and line to ideas. Kovarik has won numerous awards for her densely machine-stitched art in which the quilting line is used to draw intricate patterns and pictures. Simple exercises encourage the reader to approach each day with a curious mind willing to make a mess of expectations, embrace the wonky by letting the thread lead, and think in thread while making careful observations of the world. Heavily illustrated with examples and finished art the book provides quilters and artists with new ways to approach this medium.