Embroidery is a type of stitching that can be found all over the world. It has long been a tradition for making various types of arts in different cultures. Many hobby shops offer patterns for embroidery. You can make great looking designs by following the layout of the colors on the fabric. You can make pictures to frame, tea towels, and works of art to display around your home. You can also create your own custom embroidery designs to place on things. Many people look for someone who can customize this type of work for them. It is a great gift to give someone an embroidered project that has the names and birthdates of their children or their grandchildren.
Capture the life in their eyes and the texture of their fur with a unique embroidered pet portrait! Self-taught artist Michelle Staub puts a modern spin on thread painting with her easy-to-learn approach.
In this book, author Kozue Yazawa draws inspiration from the natural world and her own surroundings, using an array of classic nautical motifs to evoke a sense of elegance and nostalgia.
Each book in the Almost Everything series offers readers a fun, comprehensive, and charmingly illustrated visual directory of ideas to inspire skill building in their creative endeavors.
Using key exhibitions and contemporary criticism, The Modern Embroidery Movement focuses extensively on the individual work of Zorach and Brown Harbeson, casting a new light on their careers.
Bestselling author Christen Brown’s traditional and contemporary techniques are showcased in a colorful gallery of crazy-quilted projects. “An overview of embroidery stitches and techniques as well as inspiration for embroidery projects ...
How to use a variety of embroidery threads and simple stitches to create beautiful embroidered projects.
This comprehensive survey of the traditional embroidery arts covers everything from appliqué to smocking.
Embroidery Pocket Guide (Leisure Arts #56019) is the handiest reference guide for embroiders ever -- a laminated pocket-size encyclopedia of the most popular stitches and much more.
Enjoy these 15 fun embroidery projects you can finish in a day or a weekend, with 50 designs to choose from. Stitch something awesome today! From the creative mind of Megan Eckman come 15 edgy and fun embroidered projects to sew.
With pattern templates, detailed stitch tutorials and instructions on how to complete each design, every one of these 25 projects will be wall-worthy. This is definitely not your grandmother’s embroidery.