Creative Uses for Decorative Stitches

Creative Uses for Decorative Stitches
Author: Karen Linduska
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Embroidery, Machine
ISBN: 9781604600278

"Take your quilts to the next level of creativity by using the decorative stitches built into your sewing machine. Karen shows how to find multiple uses for a single stitch, how to combine stitches, and how to best use threads and stabilizers. Eleven projects serve as practice for getting to know your machine"--Provided by publisher.

Mary's Whimsical Stitches

Mary's Whimsical Stitches
Author: Mary Legallet
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-12-21
Genre:
ISBN: 9781733946100

A guide to all things needlepoint with over 200 needlepoint stitch diagrams and insight from a nationally recognized teacher and needlepoint writer.

Your Machine's Decorative Stitches

Your Machine's Decorative Stitches
Author: Karen Linduska
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781574326451

Learn to use all of the stitches that come with your sewing machine. Go past straight stitches and zigzags, and pump your quilts with surface design excitement. Appealing not only to the beginning quilter, this book will remind every quilter of all the choices available at her/his fingertips. Written for any brand of machine, Karen shows you how to use and manipulate those stitches to maximize surface embellishment. Practice on 12 small projects, then combine decorative stitch techniques to make two larger wallhangings.

My Custom Stitch

My Custom Stitch
Author: Barbara Skimin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 110
Release: 1999
Genre: Sewing
ISBN: 9780972086608

A comprehensive guide to creating unique stitches on Brother Pacesetter sewing machines that posess this function. All features are fully explained with tutorials for each machine model, 64 stitches ready to be programmed into the sewing machine, and four projects.

Ribbonwork Embroidery

Ribbonwork Embroidery
Author: Sophie Long
Publisher: The Crowood Press
Total Pages: 534
Release: 2017-03-31
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1785002538

Ribbon embroidery is a simple, beautiful and versatile technique that dates back to the seventeenth century. This book brings it up to date with fresh instruction on floral classics, as well as stunning contemporary designs. With over 400 colour step-by-step photographs to guide the reader through each stitch, Ribbonwork Embroidery demonstrates the speed and simplicity of ribbonwork, and explains how it can be combined with other techniques to add detail and depth to a piece of embroidery. Step-by-step photographs guide the reader through each stitch, and detailed instructions explain how ribbonwork can be combined with a range of other techniques. Help and advice is provided throughout on working with silk ribbons and projects demonstrate how to use the stitches in designs. There are ideas for creating using pieces and advice on displaying embroidery. Beautifully illustrated with 436 colour step-by-step photographs.

Crazy Patchwork

Crazy Patchwork
Author: Janet Haigh
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1998
Genre: Embroidery, Machine
ISBN: 9780844226644

From pillows and throws to memory book covers and lampshades, Crazy Patchwork takes the theme of traditional crazy quilts and applies its principles to a whole range of ideas for gifts and for the home. Includes all the information a crafter needs to make exciting crazy quilt projects...in no time! All 20 projects can be easily machine-pieced or machine-embroidered and all use a range of brilliant colors, Many of the projects can be completed in just hours!

Stupendous Stitching

Stupendous Stitching
Author: Carol Ann Waugh
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Art quilts
ISBN: 9780972892636

Foolproof Crazy Quilting

Foolproof Crazy Quilting
Author: Jennifer Clouston
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2014-01-01
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1607057182

“[The author] presents her fabulous crazy quilt composed of colorful fabrics cut in hexagons [and] describes how to take each stitch.” —Publishers Weekly Nothing shows off beautiful stitching and embellishments like the blank canvas of a crazy quilt. Jenny Clouston’s gorgeously illustrated primer shows you how to make your own heirloom crazy quilts. Learn: which fabrics, threads, and needles to use how to piece crazy quilt blocks how to embroider with thread, ribbons, beads, and other embellishments how to assemble your blocks into a finished quilt, and more Included are complete instructions for over 100 embroidery, beading, and embellishment stitches; links to full-size patterns for nine hexagonal crazy quilt blocks; and 25 stitch keys showing proper stitch placement and thread and needle selection for 25 different blocks.

Decorative Machine Stitching

Decorative Machine Stitching
Author: Cy DeCosse Incorporated
Publisher: Creative Publishing International
Total Pages: 128
Release: 1990
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780865732568

Provides ideas for decorative stitching along with step-by-step instructions.