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"Hand Embroidery Book Catalog"
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Quilting for EmbroiderersThis 143 page embroidery book for quilters is filled with lots and lots of color pictures for 6 breathtaking projects, suitable for all skill levels, from a classic cushion and very simple dot embroidery to elaborate stumpwork birds and whimsical novelty quilts.
Concise step-by-step photographs and instructions will allow you to reproduce each project, or use the individual design elements to create your own special masterpiece. This beautiful book is filled with fantastic hints to help you along the way, provides full size embroidery designs for each project and is a must for every needleworker's library.
Price $45.00
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Shadow Work Embroidery - J. Marsha MichlerFinally a book with iron on transfers, 108 to be exact, for the fine art of shadow work embroidery. Shadow work embroidery has been one of the arts promoted by the heirloom sewing world emulating fine Swiss embroideries. This Dover publication has easy-to-follow instructions, accompanied by clear diagrams, making this volume ideal for any needlecrafter, beginner or expert, who wishes to learn this elegant technique.
Shadow work has been used for decorating curtain panels, tableclothes, towels and lampshades and is perfect for adding an heirloom quality to garments made in Swiss Batiste or Lawn by embellishing inserts, yokes, collars, pockets and scarves with ornamental stitching.
Designs include:
- Script Alphabet
- Bows
- Flowers
- Butterflies
- Birds
- Motifs
Price $5.95
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A to Z Whitework - Country Bumpkin Publications
Whitework is a category of embroidery encompassing many styles of techniques reflecting the different cultures inspired from working with white cloth and white thread. This book, another fantastic volume in the A to Z series, covers the styles and techniques of every form of whitework embroidery from: - Ayshire Embroidery - Scottish Embroidery
- Broderie Angliase - English Embroidery
- Candlewicking - American style of tufted embroidery
- Carrickmacross Embroidery - Embroidery on netted ground
- Cutwork - Button-hole stitch worked on fabric & cut to form a style of lace
- Hedebo Embroidery - Danish Embroidery
- Madeira Embroidery - Portuguese Embroidery
- Mountmellick Embroidery - Irish Embroidery
- Shadow Work - Best instructions for this technique
- Tambour Embroidery - Chain stitch worked with hook on net or fabric, beading on fabric
Treat
yourself to this volume which explains all of the hand embroidery
techniques which are rapidly dying out due to the proliferation of
machined substitutes.
Price $29.00
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The Encyclopedia of Embroidery Techniques by Pauline Brown"With is gold mine of 240 beautiful machine and hand embroidery stitches, you'll create a wealth of your own beautiful projects. Whether you're inserted in applique' and quilting, or counted cross-stitch and needlepoint, every important stitch is illustrated in photographs and diagrams. If you'd like to try something more unusual, check out such techniques as reticello and smocking. You're sure to have great results with advice on transferring designs and preparing material, and the guide to different types of threads, fabrics, and equipment. Bonus: An innovative embroiderer's gallery of contemporary designs with popular themes like landscapes, people, and animals." First published in England in 1994 this book has it all with an excellent introduction to all the techniques presented. The quilting section, for example, contains innovative techniques as padded quilting, trapunto, Italian Quilting, shadow quilting and machine quilting. The section on smocking contains the basic stitches as well as lattice and flower lattice smocking.
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The Embroidered Miniature Quilt
Create a colourful miniature Baltimore quilt using surface embroidery and
stumpwork techniques, all explained with detailed instructions and step-by-step
photographs. Traditional nineteenth century motifs, worked with needlelace
slips, ribbon embroidery and wrapped beads, are represented on nine exquisite
blocks. together, they form a stunning quilt you will be proud to display.
Flowers included are:
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Cornucopia
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Lavender & Roses
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Lyre
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Blueberry Wreath
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Basket of Flowers
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Grape Wreath
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Lilies & Roses
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Wisteria & Daffodils
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Fruit Bowl
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Diana Lampe's Embroidery from the Garden - $24.95 - Hardback
A beautiful book from Australia's premier embroideress filled with 50 new
South Africa flowers designed in two beautiful embroidered gardens: The Protea
Garden and the Strelitzia Garden. Both in a garland and sampler style
featuring flowers on beautiful gifts and household items.
Diana has again taken great care to perfect the flowers and they are all
beautifully, realistically and artistically rendered. The colors have
been carefully matched and the stitches chosen to recreate the true form
of each flower. Included is a comprehensive flower and stitch glossary
with clear drawings indicating exactly the stitches required for each flower
as well as each embroidered flower shown in color and detail.
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Diana Lampe's Embroidered Pansies - $27.00 - Hardback
Diana Lampe is renowned for her skill in matching the colors of nature with
the embroiderer's palette of cotton, silk or woolen threads. In this,
her fifth book, Diana has excelled and gives all the details to allow the
reader to reproduce more than 100 pansies and heartsease (Johnny Jump-ups),
all true to nature in both form and color.
Here are the bright and cheerful flowers, in their myriad of forms, as well
as the softer, gentler colors of the Masterpiece and Heirloom pansies.
Here are their buds, their stems and their leaves, all clearly described
and detailed. Also included is a range of embroidered projects that
can be created to display the pansies from brooches to cushions to carpets
of flowers. The book contains a delightful contributed chapter by Marion
Trezie on crocheting the pansies in wool to make tea-cosies, brooches and
posies.
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A to Z of Bead Embroidery - $29.00
Another wonderful edition to the A to Z series by Country Bumpkin. Called
an essential guide for beginners and experienced needleworkers, this edition
covers the world of bead embroidery with 30 beautiful designs from around
the world to make as well as over 440 step-by-step photographs of all the
techniques associated with bead embroidery. Also included is a wonderful
section of beaded fringe which can be applied to anything your heart desires
including smocked ornaments. Techniques covered include Attaching a
single see or cylinder bead, a pair of beads, attaching multiple beads, circle
of beads, beadpoint, sequins and tambour work (if you're interested in these
let me know as I used to sell them and still can). If you have ever
drooled over the projects in Inspirations magazine and wanted more than this
is the book for you.
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Traditional Blackwork Samplers - Lesley Wilkins
$17.95
Here is a collection of Lesley Wilkins' beautiful embroideries which are
inspired by the band samplers on which embroiderers eagerly collected their
favourite designs before pattern books existed. Step-by-step photographs
and clear charts show how simple stitches on evenweave fabric can be used
to create wonderful historical samplers featuring figures, flowers, plants,
birds and animals. Beautifully illustrated with color plates throughout
the book. Excellent instructions for the beginner to blackwork as well.
An excellent way to develop your blackwork embroidery skills.
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Brazilian Three-Dimensional Embroidery by Rosie Montague - $6.95
Brazilian Embroidery is one of the prettiest bullion floral art forms around
that have inspired many a smocked bodice in it's variations. Here is
the book to start learning this fabulously gorgeous embroidery (mostly worked
in shiny rayon threads) as it has 60 transfer patterns which teach the craft,
showing step-by-step how the three-dimensional effect is achieved, which
special threads give the distinctive lustre or crinkled boucle look, and
how to fill the fabric background with that delicate tracery of field flowers,
leaves and branches that characterize Brazilian embroidery. These transfers
only work on flat fabric but once you get the hang of placement of the stitches
it would be easy to transfer the patterns onto your smocked grid canvas.
Each stitch of Brazilian embroidery is carefully explained with explicit
drawings that make learning the stitch quick and easy!
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Russian Punchneedle Embroidery - Gail Bird $4.95
Here's a fun book that has been around since 1981 (new edition of old volume)
which sparked the punch needle craze of the 80's. Punchneedle embroidery
is the art of working one basic stitch (the chain stitch) with special needles
to create a raised ornamental design on woven fabric. Using the original
set of tiny punchneedles (we're getting them soon) you can work a variety
of beautiful effects, details and textures that can be easily achieved by
using this stitch with different size needles, threads and fabrics.
This book is a complete guide to the old Russian folk style of punchneedle
embroidery, and contains descriptions of the equipment needed, detailed
instructions for stitching, easy-to-follow diagrams, and iron-on transfer
patterns including flowers, birds, butterflies, animals, etc.
Popular as a hobby, a craft and art form, punchneedle embroidery has an amazing
variety of uses: decorate fashion accessories such as purses, necklaces,
combs, belts, pins, earrings, scarves, shawls, aprons as well as doll-house
rugs and tapestries.
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Stumpwork Embroidery - Designs and Projects - Jane Nicholas $25.95
Stumpwork embroidery, which originated in the 2and half of the 17th century,
is enjoying a vigorous revival. Jane Nicholas, the author of Stumpwork
Embroidery Designs and Projects, is at the forefront of the modern designers
interpreting this beautiful raised embroidery, with it's satin backgrounds,
padding, and motifs which are either embroidered direct o the fabric or applied
as detached shapes, ad final embellishments, particularly beads. In
this, her second book, she details 19 projects containing 28 new motifs which
depict field flowers, pansies in many hues, roundels with scrolling floral
designs, wildlife including deer, owl and parrot, and needlework accessories
which give a practical application for this embroidery. Included are
detailed instructions and hundreds of step-by-step illustrations.
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A to Z of Thread Painting - $29.50
Everything, and I mean everything, you've ever wanted to know about Thread
Painting is in this book. Step by step photographs on every phase of
thread painting is covered in color stitch photos. A superb book, a
must have for your embroidery library as the topic of thread painting has
not been exhausted in books and has basically only recently appeared in
periodicals. Thread Painting is shaded satin stitch at it's finest.
Come join the fun and play.
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Embroidered Christening Gowns - Country Bumpkin
Publications
Wow! This book has them all. Every gown you have ever drooled
over in Inspirations Magazine is included in this special edition by Country
Bumpkin Publications. This will be in print only for a short while
so get it while you can. Within the pages of this beautifully photographed
book are eight unique and exquisite garments, perfect for christening, naming
or blessing celebrations. Excellent clear instruction and more than
300 step-by-step photographs bring these wonderful designs within the grasp
of all sewing enthusiasts, whatever their level of expertise. 144
pages. Full size patterns.
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The Embroidered Village Bag - Inspirations Book Special - by Carolyn Pearce
Here is a delightfully whimsical tote bag that can be decorated any way you
want. If you wish to duplicate the bag in it's entirety the complete
full-sized patterns are included along with over 100 step-by-step photographs
that show you how to embroider each section in the style that has made
Inspirations magazine famous. Practice your embroidery passions while
stitching wisteria and rose covered cottages. The is bag is useful
as well as delightful to look at as it is large enough to carry your needlework
projects where ever you go.
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A-Z of Stumpwork - 9th book in the A-Z Series
If you have ever wondered about stumpwork embroidery this is the most complete
book I have seen on the subject. Every facet of stumpwork is covered
in beautifully clear close-up step by step color photos making it easy for
you to learn and practice your skill. A must have book for every embroidery
buff.
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A to Z Crewel Embroidery
Another winner from the publishers of Inspiration magazine, this book is
a compilation of all the stitches used in past issues of the magazines detailed
out for you in step by step color photographs. If you have ever wanted
to master the art of crewel embroidery then this is the manual for you.
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World's Most Beautiful Embroidered Blankets
Yes the title says it all, these blankets are beeea-utiful. Taken from
the pages of Inspirations Magazine, this hard-bound book will be a treasure
to keep for years to come. Gorgeous thread paintings with wool yarn,
floss and ribbon: padded crewel work and bullions you will find that each
blanket is, well, exquisite. You can choose from beautiful flowers
to whimsical baby blankets designed by Jenny McWhinny and others.
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Inspirations Bridal - from Country Bumpkin, a special issue
From the pages of Inspiration Magazine you will find some beautifully romantic
embroidery projects to make that special occasion really special. The
designs included are not found anywhere else, so gorgeous - not just for
bridal projects. Projects include:
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Make the gorgeous embroidered silk bodice as seen on the cover.
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Classic Stumpwork Evening Bag
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Timeless Wedding Ring Cushion
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Hearts, Cupids, and much more.
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80 pages in all of pure inspiration.
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Thread Painting Embroidery Books
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Helen M. Stevens' Embroiderer's Year
Subtitled "Exquisite embroideries celebrating the ever-changing seasons"
and as you can see from the cover the designs that are inside are simply
delightful. Her little embroidered creatures have been in Inspirations
magazine inspiring all of us with her whimsy. She has taken thread
painting to a whole new level of beautiful and life-like interpretations
of nature. Simply gorgeous stuff to embroider or just to look at page
after page of colored sketches
In this book Helen M. Stevens has created twelve splendid collections of
embroideries, one for each month. The diversity of the natural world
is caught through her use of color, inspired use of threads and accurate
observations. The detail of the stitching is captured in superb color
plates and her description of each piece provides the encouragement to stitch
exquisite embroideries of your own.
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Redoute's Finest Flowers in Embroidery by Trish Burr
Early 19th century botanical artist, Frenchman Pierre Joseph Redoute', left
the world a legacy of hundreds of wonderful flower paintings. In turn
these paintings have inspired this collection of delicate embroideries by
Trish Burr.
Trish has reproduced 17 paintings in amazing detail, using only the simplest
of stitches to create a remarkably complex effect. Step-by-step
instructions are included for each embroidery - fabric, thread, stitches
- which allow both the novice and the experienced embroiderer to create their
own stunning botanical collection.
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Flower Patterns to Applique', Paint, and Embroidery - Joan Sjuts Waldman
$19.95
An American Quilter's Society publican. "This versatile collection
of flowers and leaf designs includes lilies, irises, roses, and more.
Personalize your quilts with 50 delightful quilt labels, suitable for
copying or printing directly to fabric. Joan also presents 12 patterns to
use with her watercolor-pencil painting technique. Simply trace the
patterns on fabric and color them in with watercolor pencils - easy as a
coloring book. "Paint" the colors with water to blend them, and press
to set the colors. Try this intriguing new technique or use these lovely
designs for applique', redwork or other embroidery."
Includes line drawings as well as color plates to show the painting suggestions.
Excellent.
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Embroidery Magazines We Carry
More Inspirations Magazines
New to our website
Australian Embroidery & Cross Stitch Magazine
(click here to sign up for automatic shipments)
Iron-On Transfer Pencil $1.50
Just the tool you need to transfer embroidery line drawings onto your fabric.
Just trace along the lines of a drawing (wrong side), then place onto
your fabric and iron on the image. Washes out with water, may need
a little scrubbing.
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