Take time out to be creative and de-stress with these colourful, fun embroidery projects from Hello! Hooray! Ranging from things you could complete in an afternoon to others that you can take your time over, enjoy every step of the making process as you focus on feeling good through being creative. The finished makes will bring colour and joy to your home, workspace and wardrobe. The projects in this book allow you to craft your creative time by selecting...

"30 Day Challenge : Embroidery is an easy-to-follow program for beginning stitchers to learn embroidery basics, master new stitches, and create dozens of modern embroidery projects"--

Transform ordinary artist canvas into an embroidered masterpiece! With easy-to-learn stitches, your embroidery needle becomes a paintbrush. Get your feet wet with small art pieces and step-by-step techniques for stitching on stretched canvas. Gather supplies to add appliqué, acrylic paint, fibers, beads, and even mirrors to your mixed-media pieces! Get tips on how to finish and display canvas embroidery art, with an extensive project gallery for...

"This reference guide includes step-by-step photos for making 120 hand-embroidery stitches, and inspiring photos with ideas for changing and combining the stitches to create new patterns for contemporary surface embroidery projects"--

Discover how to use traditional embroidery techniques from simple cross stitch to pulled thread embroidery-even if you've never embroidered before. The book introduces the reader to many different stitchery techniques from simple cross stitch to intricate pulled threadwork. Some of the techniques are useful for making decorative borders, while others are good for adding spot designs, monograms and lettering, and applying beads and sequins. There...

This illustrated embroidery guide takes you step-by-step through seventeen projects using a variety of techniques, including forty-two stitches.
 
Needlecraft designer Cheryl Fall offers the ideal guide for beginner and intermediate crafters who want to master embroidery stitches. A comprehensive and fully illustrated skill-building section is followed by fun and creative projects using both surface embroidery and counted-thread...

A modern approach to stitching, layering, tracing, and drawing with thread from an authority on embroidery arts.

"How to create free-form embroidery, from inspiration to sketch, to pattern, to wool appliqué and embroidery stitches; six projects with full-size patterns"--

A sampler is a project made from a "sampling" of different stitches or different motifs. Once the learning tool that helped generations of girls master basic needlework skills, this traditional project is still a great way to learn and practice embroidery skills - as well as a creative way to add color to a room or a fabric item. • Covers samplers in several different styles: cross-stitch, counted thread, surface, and freestyle embroidery • Creative...

As makers, we tend to learn different stitches over time without thinking much about how they relate to one another. But when Natalie Chanin and her Alabama Chanin and The School of Making teams began to look at needlework closely, they realized all stitches are based on geometric grid systems--and by using grids as guides, they could make learning stitches, even seemingly elaborate ones, as easy as child's play. In The Geometry of Hand-Sewing Chanin...