Embellish your world with beautiful embroidery! Inside Love Embroidery you'll find expert tips for both hand embroidery and freehand machine embroidery techniques, along with 56 simple but stylish projects for customizing your wardrobe, revamping your home, and making fabulous gifts. Inspirational ideas from leading designers are provided for every skill level. Start with easy projects and move into more complex designs once you've mastered the basics. Includes useful step-by-step stitch g...

The complete visual guide to hand embroidery & embellishing.This richly illustrated reference guide from embroidery expert Christen Brown covers everything you need to make beautiful magic with needle and thread. Learn to sew traditional and silk ribbon embroidery, make raised stitches, and embellish with beads, charms, buttons, and mirrors. Christen shows you how to combine and place stitches to enhance a finished piece and how to work with embroidery threads, ribb...

Begin your adventure into embroidery with this simple, step-by-step guide to the basics, featuring two fun projects.Learn the basic stitches and essential techniques to create beautiful freestyle embroidery with this comprehensive guide. Every stitch has clear step-by-step instructions and is accompanied by coloured diagrams, making it easy to create impressive embroidered designs. This short book also includes instructions for two projects—celebration bunting and ...

"A spectacular encyclopedia of embroidery, sharing valuable techniques passed down through the generations . . . you'll wonder how you ever worked without it." — Sew MagazineEnjoy the tranquility of slow stitching with this step-by-step, visual guide to 149 embroidery stitches, motifs, and extras. Go beyond basic color theory–robust color charts take the guesswork out of choosing thread, silk ribbon, buttons, beads, and trims. Then take your embroidery to t...

Revive your wardrobe with these creative visible mending techniques to make worn-out clothing not just wearable, but better than ever.Welcome to the new face of mending! Don't hide patches—make them into bold, beautiful embellishments. Repair holes with colorful thread and a creative darning stitch, or use fun embroidery to bring new life to a stained shirt. With detailed step-by-step photography, Kristin Roach teaches you a wide range of patching, darning, and repa...

Learn to use floss like a boss with these twenty original embroidery art projects, from the bestselling author of Doodle Stitching and Patchwork Embroidery.Create one-of-a-kind embroidery art using simple techniques! Bestselling author Aimee Ray of Doodle Stitching fame is back with the fresh motifs and contemporary inspiration her fans have come to love. With Aimee's help, you'll move beyond the pattern to reflect your artistic self?making hoop fr...

A stylish embroidery guide for the modern maker, featuring twenty beautiful projects with step-by-step instructions and inspiring templates.Vibrant color and rich textures abound in Hoop Dreams, a stylish embroidery guide for the modern maker. Author Cristin Morgan of Marigold + Mars outlines the basics of ten classic embroidery stitches and then teaches you how to use them to create twenty beautiful and practical projects for hoops, for the home, and to we...

Not sure what a particlar word or instruction means in your sewing, knitting, or crochet pattern? Forgotten how to do that attractive embroidery stitch? Here is the ultimate A to Z guide to more than 1,001 terms used in these needlecrafts. This comprehensive reference book brims with definitions for applique, crochet, embroidery, knitting, quilting, and sewing.Each entry provides a thorough definition for each of its applicable crafts, while terms are cross-referenced to their US or...

Learn how to sew with this stylish collection of twenty irresistible hand and sewing machine projects, including bags, gifts, and pillows.Discover the pleasure of making your own chic and unique designs with these simple-to-make patterns. Transform yourself from a needlecraft novice to an embellishment expert with this sewing savvy guide. Choose from pretty and stylish gift ideas for you and your friends and go fabric shopping today.This book is packed with i...

A volume of inspiration, NOT a how-to book... Making a crazy quilt is an artful process, and this is why no two crazy quilts can ever be alike. Author of numerous titles on crazy quilting and the needle arts, J. Marsha Michler reveals how creativity is a part of every aspect of making this type of quilt, explaining how each quilter brings her own, unique signature to each step. Illustrated in full color with gorgeous detail photos of the author's own quilts.

This DIY sewing book presents a fabulous new collection of lightweight wraps that are easy to sew and look fantastic!Stylish Wraps Sewing Book provides full-sized patterns that can be used to create 22 timeless wraps to keep the chill off—and look great in the process. All of the sewing projects can be made in a few hours for a fraction of what you would pay for a finished piece in a store. It's easy to mix and match different fabrics and styles to suit yo...

A visual encyclopedia of stitches, the Big Book of Embroidery is the essential, go-to reference guide for embroiderers. Understand basic stitches, such as straight stitches, cross stitches, woven stitches, split stitches, and loop stitches, and learn to embroider several details and designs within those fundamental methods. Containing 250 popular embroidery stitches and techniques, detailed close-up photography, and step-by-step illustrations and captions, you'll then practice the...