Modern Crewel Embroidery for Beginners

The essential beginner's guide to modern crewel embroidery, with 8 simple projects and over 40 stitches, from best-selling author Tatiana Popova. This is a fully illustrated, must-have guide, featuring an inspiring combination of cotton threads, vibrant colours and contemporary floral designs. World-renowned embroiderer Tatiana Popova covers all the basics you need to get start with crewel embroidery – selecting your needles and threads, preparing fabric to work in a hoop and making your first stitches. As you work through the book, each project incorporates new and exciting stitches to build your skills gradually, while making your own beautiful embroidered pieces. Inside you will discover: Over 40 simple crewel embroidery stitches, from stem stitch, arrowhead stitch and lattice stitch, advancing to silk shading and battlement couching. 8 modern and colourful floral projects to embroider, with written instructions and full-size templates. Friendly and practical advice to help you learn and progress. All of the projects – including a striking poppy, a vibrant floral butterfly, a stunning arrangement of snowdrops and a classic peony – are worked in beautiful cotton embroidery threads for a vibrant and contemporary finish. The essential beginner's guide to modern crewel embroidery, with 8 simple projects and over 40 stitches, from best-selling author Tatiana Popova. This is a fully illustrated, must-have guide, featuring an inspiring combination of cotton threads, vibrant colours and contemporary floral designs. Popular crewelwork designer Tatiana Popova has taught thousands of beginners how to embroider and has distilled her years of experience into this inspiring book. The 8 projects are carefully chosen to build up your confidence through practice; each will teach you new stitches, and will gradually develop your hand embroidery skills as you work through the book. This comprehensive beginner's guide contains: Guidance on everything you need to get started, from essential tools and materials and choosing your threads, to threading your needle, making your first stitches and fastening off; Clear step-by-step photographs and simple stitching instructions, which make this the perfect crewel embroidery manual, whether you are stitching for the first time or revisiting the basics; Full-size templates to help you accurately copy the designs, and get started quickly; 8 stylish modern floral designs to embroider, each one teaching and consolidating new stitches. Choose from a stunning pattern of gum tree leaves, a majestic poppy, a carpet of snowdrops and more. Helpful friendly guidance, and a simple course-style progression that allows you to build up your skills as you work through the book. Create your own stunning colourful embroideries using simple crewelwork stitches, all worked in beautiful cotton embroidery threads for a wonderful contemporary finish.

Pagina's: 128, Paperback, Search Press Ltd