Free Motion Embroidery: Creating Textile Art with Layered Fabric & Stitch

Experiment and discover your own artistic voice and style! Providing a wealth of inspiration for those new to textile art as well as experienced textile artists, Free Motion Embroidery guides you through the entire creative process – from finding inspiration to designing your own stitched artworks. Katie Essam's fresh, modern approach to textile art uses unique combinations of media and free motion embroidery techniques to create beautiful mixed-media artworks inspired by everyday objects and scenes. Katie shows you how to combine free machine embroidery, appliqué, hand stitching, collage and fabric painting through step-by-step photographs, numerous examples of her work and 7 gorgeous step-by-step projects accompanied by full-size templates. A free bonus project is also included. This revised and updated title is drawn from Katie Essam's successful Layered and Stitched Pictures in The Textile Artist series. Incorporating a new bonus project, this book showcases Katie's free machine embroidery techniques. Her fresh, modern style uses a unique combinations of traditional techniques, and in this book she shows how to create stunning textile art inspired by the beauty in everyday objects. With eight projects and lots of finished artworks to spark creativity, this book teaches the reader how to draw inspiration from the animals, birds, gardens, beach huts and scenes that surround us all; and use that inspiration as fuel to create gorgeous stitched pictures.