Make a Beautiful Embroidered Garden Come to LifeImagine an idyllic garden filled with your favourite spring flowers - now you can make it come to life with this step-by-step guide to embroidering a beautiful garden scene!Find concise instruction on how to stitch 23 different spring flowers and trees. You'll learn how using unique adaptations of only four basic stitches - Straight, Detached Chain, Buttonhole and French Knots.Both novice and experienced stitchers will...

Stitching a Summer Garden to LifeWhether you are a novice or veteran stitcher, Summer Flowers will help you bring your vision to life. Beginning with backgrounds, you will learn how create the perfect setting for your idyllic tableau.Then using just 10 familiar stitches, you will learn how to hand stitch 23 distinct and lovely plants and flowers.Topics covered include printing photos on fabric to create beautiful layouts, ideas and instructions on how to make your p...

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An engaging woman-against-the-odds story about an entrepreneurial South Island sheep farmer. When Beverley Forrester’s beloved husband Jim died unexpectedly, not only did she have to deal with her grief, but she suddenly had a farm to run too. Although she had grown up in a farming family, she herself had trained and worked as an occupational therapist for many years. So there was a lot to learn and new tasks to undertake – not least the need to win the trust of Jim’s loya...

The elegant art of silk ribbon embroidery is easy and quick to do, with stunning results within the reach of any stitcher. Author of numerous titles on crazy quilting and the needle arts, J. Marsha Michler will guide you through getting started with this timeless craft. Learn embroidery stitches for ribbon work, and how to create sewn florals that will add further dimension and emphasis to your designs. Learn to make bias ribbons, and to easily dye silk ribbons. Follow a simple tutorial to...

Traditional tailoring is a fascinating craft, which has not changed for many centuries, however, the techniques are now known only by a few practising in the best couture ateliers and bespoke tailor's workrooms. Nothing feels quite so luxurious or sophisticated as bespoke clothes, but the tailoring skills they require are often seen to be shrouded in mystery and the clothes therefore only accessible to the rich and famous. This practical book reveals the trade secrets of couture tailoring ...

This vintage book contains a detailed guide to making a range of tea cosies, including step-by-step directions for knitting, crocheting, and embroidery. With simple instructions and all the measurements needed, this book is ideal for the novice, and would make for a lovely addition to collections of allied literature. Contents include: “Easy Knitted Cosy”, “A Hotcup of Teaknitted Cosy”, “A Crochet Cosy”, “Chunky Crochet Cosy”, “Embroidery From Sweden”, “Pineapple Coffee Cosy”, and “An Easy...

How to make amazing vintage necklaces, cardigans, slippers, gloves and more, all instructions included. Taken from Rosemary McLeod's amazing book With Bold Needle & Thread: Adventures in Vintage Needlecraft, the 10 patterns in this ebook come from women' s magazines of the 1930s to 1950s, recreated with a modern twist. Rosemary McLeod, bestselling author and expert on textile crafts, has written easy to follow patterns that will inspire and delight. This book is p...

Designing and Making Hats and Headpieces is an inspiring instructional guide to the art of millinery. It explains how to go about designing a hat, what equipment and materials you will need, and the techniques required to get started. It divides the projects into three types of hat - blocked, headpieces and fascinators, and cut and sewn - and thereby describes how to make fourteen different designs. It goes on to suggest ways of finishing the hats with embellishments such as bows, felt, ve...

The last of 6 eBook-only shorts from star of The Great British Sewing Bee and doyenne of the Women’s Institute, May Martin, including fabulous tips for making those difficult sewing techniques easy to master.May has been teaching sewing for over 40 years. From hems to facings May simplifies some of the trickiest methods in sewing for those already experienced and needing a little extra helping hand in the art of sewing.Beautifully styled and simple-to-follow, this authorita...

It's OK to play with needlesI Felt Awesome shows you how to turn traditional needle-felting techniques into irreverent felted fun. Moxie's playful and cheeky sense of humor will needle you into taking your felting beyond traditional motifs, and decorate yourself and your home with feisty designs of wearable, playable and coffee table-worthy objects.Get started with:• Step-by-step instructions for 35 projects, including a felted spike bracel...

Create Heirloom-Quality NeedleworkNoted needlework author and designer Shay Pendray shares her secrets for unique, inventive stitchery. From years of study in Japan and around the world, Shay has learned stitching techniques that will help you create one-of-a-kind works of art.From the basics of framing up, starting and stopping threads, and laying multi-standard threads, to embellishing, combining stitches, and couching techniques, you will be inspired to ...