Handstitched Landscapes and Flowers

Handstitched Landscapes and Flowers
Author: Katrina Witten
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-03-05
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1782214518

Create beautiful landscapes and flowers using handstitching and only six simple stitches. Handstitched Landscapes and Flowers is a beautiful exploration of the potential of embroidery in depicting the natural world. Katrina Witten, who is a regular on crafts channel Hochanda, uses just six simple stitches, delicate embellishments and an array of techniques and fabrics to portray pastoral scenes of fields, flowers and creatures with eye-catching three-dimensional effects. There are ten detailed step-by-step projects that depict, among others, a hedgerow, a bluebell-emblazoned woodland, sunflowers, a butterfly, a poppy field and a summer scene of buddleia and bees.

Embroidered Landscapes Hand Embroidery

Embroidered Landscapes Hand Embroidery
Author: Judy Wilford
Publisher: Milner Craft Series
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Embroidery
ISBN: 9781863514743

Design and create realistic hand-embroidered landscapes, from coastlines to deserts, escarpments to plains. Judy Wilford's stunning process combines different genres, textiles, traditional stitches, and embroidery styles. Part 1 covers the materials and equipment, lays out a simple landscape, and demonstrates background layering and surface stitching. The second section contains a range of projects, each developing and extending the various techniques.

Stitch in Bloom

Stitch in Bloom
Author: Lora Avedian
Publisher: Hardie Grant Books
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2021-05-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9781784883966

Stitch in Bloom is a gorgeous new embroidery book, celebrating the art of couching, an embellishment technique used to adorn fabrics. Artist and mixed-media textile designer, Lora Avedian demonstrates the versatility of this stitch using different materials to produce a range of finishes before showcasing 15 stunning projects to try yourself. Featuring ways you can enhance pre-owned garments and accessories, to creating statement pieces for the home, and with each design giving a nod to nature, this book will emphasize the beauty of this style of embroidery, the joy of stitching by hand and making with intention.

The Hand-Stitched Flower Garden

The Hand-Stitched Flower Garden
Author: Yuki Sugashima
Publisher:
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2015-09-01
Genre: Embroidery
ISBN: 9781782213017

Learn how to create beautiful and understated decorative stitching motifs. The designs feature surface and dimensional stitches and bead embroidery; with motifs inspired by nature ranging from roses, sunflowers, asters, and daisies to little bumblebees, ladybugs, and dragonflies.

Creative Hand Embroidery

Creative Hand Embroidery
Author: Sue Newhouse
Publisher: Search Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1993
Genre: Embroidery
ISBN: 9780855327279

In this delightful book, the author and a group of her talented students, show how to use simple stitches, techniques and water-soluble fabric to bring grasses, trees and flowers to life in a wealth of delightful landscapes.

Stitch and Structure

Stitch and Structure
Author: Jean Draper
Publisher: Batsford Books
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2022-02-10
Genre: Design
ISBN: 1849947724

An essential book for any textile artist looking to expand their repertoire into two- and three-dimensional work. Leading textile artist, teacher and examiner Jean Draper takes you through the entire process from designing through construction to embellishment with mixed media. This beautiful and very practical book includes diagrams, detailed drawings and stitch information to guide the reader through the techniques, which include hand and machine embroidery. It covers: Design, including recording information for translation into stitch (with lots of drawing tips); Choice of Threads, including some unusual threads and customizing them; Constructing with Thread, everything from knotted forms, with decorative threads, grids and stacks, and coiled structures; Stitches in Thin Air, constructing with stitch alone using moulds and soluble fabric; Using Mixed Media in Stitched Structures, such as paper, sticks, wire and plastics; Adding Structure to an Existing Fabric; Three-Dimensional Fabric Structures. Working in two and three-dimensions is a growing genre of textile art and this incorporates a fresh approach and great design advice.

Beginner’s Guide to Stumpwork

Beginner’s Guide to Stumpwork
Author: Kay Dennis
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020-03-18
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1782217908

A practical, step-by-step guide which shows clearly how to create beautiful raised and padded embroideries. Kay Dennis is passionate about Stumpwork. This intricate, raised and padded embroidery has its origins in the seventeenth century, and is enjoying a revival amongst embroiderers and lacemakers. It is wonderfully versatile and will appeal both to the novice and imaginative needleworker. Using a mix of flat, padded, wired and free-standing elements, it employs a wide range of embroidery techniques. This comprehensive and colourful book covers both basic and needle lace techniques - sections on each containing a series of elaborate step-by-step demonstrations showing how to work individual techniques, followed by a project combining all the methods. Kay takes inspiration from a variety of sources and her designs include animals, flowers, fruits and insects popular motifs in the seventeenth century. She also creates contemporary designs and there are advanced projects on landscape and figurative work. A gallery of Kay's work is included to stimulate and inspire the reader.