Name: Animal Embroidery Workbook By Jessica Long
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Animal Embroidery Workbook By Jessica Long

742912

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Embroider a menagerie of 30 adorable animals From a sweet giraffe and a happy cat to a sly little red fox and a friendly hedgehog, Animal Embroidery Workbook features step-by-step instructions and dozens of easy-to-use patterns to create embroidery hoops for all your favorite animals with charming floral details. Intermediate embroiderers will pick them up in no time, and beginners can tackle the simpler projects and further their skills with the more complicated designs.

Also included is basic introductory information about materials and supplies, techniques - such as template transfer and setting up a double hoop - and a guide to basic stitches. These clear, usable embroidery patterns are designed and written by author Jessica Long, founder of Jessica Long Embroidery where she shares her patterns, kits, tutorials, and more.

BRIGHT by Making

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BRIGHT is the newest multi-format publication from the team at Making. BRIGHT focuses on centering diverse voices, wellness, repurposing, a respectful relationship to the environment, and the multitude of ways the act of making and craftivism touch our daily lives.

BRIGHT Vol. 1 (Spring 2022), includes:

Punch needle pillow + mental wellness essay by Kelly Wright
Interview and art by Rachel Gloria Adams
Crafty crossword by Michelle Beckett and Carrie Cooper
Quilt wall hanging by Annabel Lowe Wrigley
Beaded bracelet by Donna Threadgill
Pin cushion set by Nicola Natland
Papercraft box by Emily Ching
Gender expansive fashion essay by Emilia Bergoglio
Repurposed terrarium by Keeley Michael
Crafty comic by Melissa Kendall
Knit shawl + kerchief + story by Chase Harpole
Crochet pullover + earrings by Quayln Stark

Organic Embroidery by Meredith Woolnough

Organic Embroidery by Meredith Woolnough

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Come on a creative journey with renowned textile artist Meredith Woolnough. Bring your sketchbook and your sewing machine!

Meredith works with a unique form of embroidery, creating sculptural artworks with a domestic sewing machine and water-soluble fabrics. Her etherial embroideries explore and celebrate the beauty of nature, inspired by the patterns, structures and forms of coral, leaves and shells.

Her artwork is breathtaking, and now for the first time Meredith offers crafters and finer artists a lesson in how to use the 'organic embroidery' technique. Look behind the scenes of her art process, from the initial fieldwork, sketching and research that inspires her designs, to the production of her embroidered sculptures. She guides you through 12 creativity-prompting activities to help you begin your own masters of this method.

Hoop Dreams: 20 Beautiful Projects and Inspiring Templates by Cristin Morgan

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Vibrant color and rich textures abound in Hoop Dreams, a stylish embroidery guide for the modern maker. Author Cristin Morgan outlines the basics of 10 classic embroidery stitches and then teaches you how to use them to create 20 beautiful and practical projects for hoops, for the home, and to wear.

New and experienced embroiderers alike will be delighted by the fresh motifs and bold color palettes and empowered by the easy step-by-step instructions and templates, which show that with just a few simple stitches, some basic materials, and an idea or two, you can stitch just about anything.

A glossary of more than 50 additional patterns and motifs will inspire you to personalize your projects and use your newfound embroidery skills in fresh and imaginative ways. As an added bonus, the book includes an envelope with 10 carbon transfer papers for quickly transferring patterns to fabric.

Embroidery Now: Contemporary Projects for You and Your Home by Jennifer Cardenas Riggs

Embroidery Now: Contemporary Projects for You and Your Home by Jennifer Cardenas Riggs

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Embroidery Now is a stylish hand-embroidery guide for the modern maker. Author and textile artist, Jennifer Riggs, known on Instagram as @threadhoney, walks you through the embroidery process. You'll learn about the materials included in the practice, nine different stitch techniques with illustrated step-by-step instructions, and 30 individual projects designed for you to use in your home and wardrobe.

Perfect for both new and experienced embroiderers alike, projects include a boho stitched lampshade, embroidered accent pillow, constellation tablecloth, minimalist canvas wall art, starry-stitched dresses, and much more. You will be delighted by the unique, current designs, sophisticated color palettes and on-trend motifs. Each project is broken down into step-by-step instructions and templates so you can recreate them yourself, even if you have no prior embroidery experience. Packed with tips and tricks and a lot of inspiration, Embroidery Now shows that anything can be embroidered and gives you the confidence to continue to embellish your world through embroidery.

Garden Stitch Life: 50 Embroidery Motifs & Projects to Grow Your Inspiration by Kazuko Aoki

Garden Stitch Life: 50 Embroidery Motifs & Projects to Grow Your Inspiration by Kazuko Aoki

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In Garden Stitch Life, embroidery artist Kazuko Aoki invites you into her enchanting world of garden-themed embroidery. You’ll get a glimpse into her creative process, from sketching and selecting thread colors to stitching tips and techniques, as well as a behind-the-scenes look at her atelier, garden, and other inspiring locales. In addition to dozens of botanical motifs, you’ll also find designs based on the author’s favorite things in life: food, travel, and design. Projects include samplers, collages, patches, bags, table linens, and more!

The Modern Embroidery Studio: 20 Stylish Designs to Stitch, Wear, and Share by Lauren Holton

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Carve out time for you with The Modern Embroidery Studio.

If you love all things handmade and you're looking to quench your creative thirst, this is the book for you. Now more than ever, we need to slow down, unplug, and make something with our hands. Embroidery requires patience and attention to detail, but this tactile experience gives back in a much larger way: it centers our minds, helps us feel recharged in our fast paced lives, and provides us with fabulous pieces of art to wear, share, or hang.

Although hand embroidery has been around for millennia, The Modern Embroidery Studio will help you dive into the craft in a fresh, modern way. In the early chapters, all the basics are covered, from picking the best tools and supplies to mastering a handy library of stitches. Next, you'll find the step-by-step projects, each bursting with color and arranged by theme. Browse eye-catching patterns to find your favorite and follow the simple directions, accompanied by author Lauren's instructional tips and tricks for embroidery success. Finally, learn how to apply and customize the designs to make them truly your own.

If you're a novice stitcher, you'll be able to learn and progress as you go; if you already have some embroidery experience, The Modern Embroidery Studio has plenty to keep you engaged. Regardless of your skill level, let embroidery bring an extra dose of happiness to your day.

Embroidered Kitchen Garden: Vegetable, Herb & Flower Motifs to Stitch & Savor by Kazuko Aoki

Embroidered Kitchen Garden: Vegetable, Herb & Flower Motifs to Stitch & Savor by Kazuko Aoki

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Embroidery artist and avid gardener Kazuko Aoki shares a collection of exquisite designs inspired by her very own kitchen garden. This bountiful assortment of embroidery motifs includes everyone’s favorite garden treats. From humble tomatoes and radishes to show-stopping figs and Brussels sprouts, this collection features over 30 edible plant designs.

Stitch up a sampler to decorate your kitchen, create a one-of-a-kind farmers market tote, or just pore over the pages for endless inspiration. Each design features artfully illustrative details yet are made with just a handful of simple embroidery stitches. Embroidery enthusiasts will delight in this cornucopia of lush and sweet designs to stitch and savor. Instructions and templates for all designs are included, along with personal embroidery tips and expert advice from the author.

The Embroidered Garden: Stitching Through the Seasons of a Flower Garden by Kazuko Aoki

The Embroidered Garden: Stitching Through the Seasons of a Flower Garden by Kazuko Aoki

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Kazuko Aoki has a unique talent for translating the beauty of the garden with needle and thread. By offering forty motifs, Aoki invites us to explore her gardens through embroidery. The forty motifs explore the roses and wildflowers that appear season to season, as well as the bees and butterflies that enjoy their nectar. The designs here are exquisite, detailed, and artfully rendered. Beyond the motifs themselves, Aoki also presents projects that feature the embroidery: brooches, notebook covers, pin cushions, and pouches. For those new to embroidery, detailed how-to illustrations are included.

Embroidered Wild Flowers: Patterns Inspired by Field and Forest by Kazuko Aoki

Embroidered Wild Flowers: Patterns Inspired by Field and Forest by Kazuko Aoki

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Inspired by the wonder and beauty of nature, the embroidery motifs offered here evoke wildflower meadows and woodland walks. With lifelike yet whimsical weeds and flowers, as well as mushrooms, leaves, trees, and birds, this collection of flora and fauna offers a charming range of motifs. As a gardener, horticulturalist, and accomplished embroiderer, Kazuko Aoki brings life to her designs through intricate detail and a passionate eye for natural beauty.

With artistic photographs, clear step-by-step instructions, and detailed diagrams, Embroidered Wild Flowers offers a wonderful variety of embroidery patterns that can be enjoyed by novice and experienced sewers alike.

Flora Motifs to Embroider by Reiko Mori

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Visit an exquisite embroidered garden in this awe-inspiring volume from Japanese master embroidery artist Reiko Mori. In seven chapters, Ms. Mori shares an abundance of motifs inspired by flowers, from delicate sprigs and bouquets to climbing vines and perching birds. Blossoms as showy as roses and as modest as dandelions become masterpieces under Ms. Mori's hand. Themes within each chapter showcase each embroidered bloom.

Delicate bridal accessories, precious teapots and teacups, a ballet slipper, and an astonishing floral alphabet are just a few of the elements embellished with elaborate floral embroidery. A guide to embroidery-floss colors, essential notions and tools, basic techniques, and a how-to library of embroidery stitches will help aspiring embroidery artists find success.

Mystical Stitches: Embroidery for Personal Empowerment and Magical Embellishment by Christi Johnson

Mystical Stitches: Embroidery for Personal Empowerment and Magical Embellishment by Christi Johnson

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Make your embroidery glow with mystical meaning, guided by Christi Johnson's rich treasury of 200 magical symbols. Combine numbers, planets, animals, forces of nature, and more to create a personal talisman to express your deepest wishes and intentions through colorful stitchery. Use a lightning bolt to call on swift action and illuminate messages. A raindrop symbolizes release, support, and nourishment. The pomegranate is a sign of immortality and ultimate potential.

Step-by-step instructions and patterns make it easy to re-create each symbol and develop original designs to adorn your clothing, enhance an altar, or make a wall hanging. Whether you're a new or experienced stitches, you'll be inspired to expand your practice of creative and mindful embroidery.

Flowersmith: How to Handcraft and Arrange Enchanting Paper Flowers - Jennifer Tran

Flowersmith: How to Handcraft and Arrange Enchanting Paper Flowers - Jennifer Tran

736005

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Let Flowersmith be your crafting companion through the wonderful world of paper flowers.

This is the definitive guide to handcrafting and arranging true-to-life paper flowers. Through craftsmanship, expert styling and beautiful photography, this book elevates paper flowers to an art form.

Inside, you’ll find everything you need to know about the art of flower making, from the basic skills you’ll need, through to crafting realistic flower arrangements for every season. With more than 30 flower and foliage projects included, you’ll also find practical step-by-step instructions and photos, and templates you can cut out and use again and again.

'With just some paper and mundane tools, Jennifer is able to create intensely beautiful works of art.' Richard Aloisio, Art Director, The New York Times

Ahead of the Curve by Jenny Rushmore

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Ahead of the Curve : Learn to Fit and Sew Amazing Clothes for Your Curves
Jenny Rushmore

"Don't change your body to fit your clothes--change your clothes to fit your body! Ahead of the Curve includes 5 basic garments patterns, which includes a pair of trousers, a t-shirt, a vest top and two dress designs. Jenny takes you through a series of Fit Clinics--tutorials and case studies demystifying the fitting process--showing you how to adjust these patterns to master the perfect fit for your body shape. Once you have got to grips with this, you can go on to customize your closet and create an unlimited array of fantastic clothes that celebrate your body"-- Ahead of the Curve is the first sewing book to empower curvy and plus size women to feel body confident by sewing a wardrobe that fits.

Don't change your body to fit your clothes - change your clothes to fit your body!

Ahead of the Curve includes 5 basic garment patterns (US sizes 12-32/UK sizes 16-36/EUR sizes 44-64), which includes a pair of trousers, a t-shirt, a sleeveless top and two dress designs. Jenny takes you through a series of Fit Clinics - tutorials and case studies demystifying the fitting process - showing you how to adjust these patterns to master the perfect fit for your body shape. Once you have got to grips with this, you can go on to customize your closet and create an unlimited array of fantastic clothes that celebrate your body.

If you're curvy or plus size, trying to find clothes that fit and reflect your personal style can be incredibly difficult and frustrating. Plus size women feel constantly excluded and like they can't express their personality through clothes. This book finally changes that.

Ahead of the Curve is the first sewing book to empower curvy and plus size women to feel body confident by sewing a wardrobe that fits.

Don't change your body to fit your clothes – change your clothes to fit your body!

Ahead of the Curve includes 5 basic garment patterns (US sizes 12-32/UK sizes 16–36/EUR sizes 44–64), which includes a pair of trousers, a t-shirt, a sleeveless top and two dress designs. Jenny takes you through a series of "Fit Clinics" – tutorials and case studies demystifying the fitting process – showing you how to adjust these patterns to master the perfect fit for your body shape. Once you have got to grips with this, you can go on to customize your closet and create an unlimited array of fantastic clothes that celebrate your body.

If you're curvy or plus size, trying to find clothes that fit and reflect your personal style can be incredibly difficult and frustrating. Plus size women feel constantly excluded and like they can't express their personality through clothes. This book finally changes that.

Make, Thrift, Mend by Katrina Rodabaugh

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Slow fashion influencer Katrina Rodabaugh, bestselling author of Mending Matters, teaches readers how to mend, patch, dye, and alter clothing for an environmentally conscious, reimagined wardrobe

Slow fashion influencer Katrina Rodabaugh follows her bestselling book, Mending Matters, with a comprehensive guide to building (and keeping) a wardrobe that matters. Whether you want to repair your go-to jeans, refresh a favorite garment, alter or dye clothing you already have—this book has all the know-how you’ll need. Woven throughout are stories, essays, and a slow fashion call-to-action, encouraging readers to get involved or deepen their commitment to changing the destructive habit of over-consumption. Rodabaugh has an engaged community (her kits are in high demand and her classes sell out quickly) and a proven ability to tempt sewists and non-sewists alike to take up needle and thread.

About the author

Katrina Rodabaugh is an award-winning artist and writer working across disciplines to explore environmental and social issues through craft techniques. Her writing and work have appeared in the New York Times, Boston Globe, Martha Stewart Living,Mother Earth Living, Sewing Magazine, Sunset magazine, Sweet Paul Magazine, Taproot magazine, and more. Rodabaugh teaches and speaks at craft gatherings across the United States, including to standing-room only crowds at the popular New York State Sheep & Wool Festival. Rodabaugh currently lives in the Hudson Valley of New York.

The Colette Guide to Sewing Knits, Alyson Clair

The Colette Guide to Sewing Knits, Alyson Clair

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Learn to sew with knits and create the wearable wardrobe you've dreamed of. Create comfortable, beautiful garments quickly and easily using techniques taught by a fashion industry insider. You'll learn all the basics, from the ins and outs of the machinery to the best finishing techniques. Alyson Clair shows you that anyone can sew with knits!

Learn how to seam and finish knit garments, whether you have a serger or not.

See how sergers and coverstitch machines work, so you'll know exactly what to invest it.

Explore industry techniques taught by someone who has spent years on the factory floor (and how to adapt them for home use).

Learn how to shop for knit fabric and what to look for.

Learn basic fitting and quick-fit techniques that work well for knit patterns.

See a variety of methods for finishing edges, including necklines, armholes, and hems. You’ll learn techniques you can swap out on almost any knit pattern!

Get creative with fun embellishments that work particularly well with knits.

Stitch Savvy by Deborah Moebes

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$27.99

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Follow five "tracks" of sewing, each with five tiers of difficulty, for a total of 25 fun projects that will help you learn new sewing techniques and gain confidence and experience in your sewing! Includes CD of patterns and templates.

Deborah Moebes, author of the bestselling book Stitch By Stitch, wrote Stitch Savvy: 25 Skill-Building Projects to Take Your Sewing to the Next Level to help sewists determine their own progression in the craft.

Publisher: Krause Publications

The Colette Sewing Handbook: Inspired Styles and Classic Techniques for the New Seamstress by by Sarai Mitnick

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$29.99

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Five simple fundamentals can help you perfect any sewing project: a thoughtful plan, a precise pattern, a fantastic fit, a beautiful fabric, and a fine finish. With these core ideas, this book shows you how to start sewing the wardrobe of your dreams.

176 pages
Publisher: Krause Publications
Publish date: November 2011

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Ahead of the Curve : Learn to Fit and Sew Amazing Clothes for Your Curves
Jenny Rushmore

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Ahead of the Curve : Learn to Fit and Sew Amazing Clothes for Your Curves Jenny Rushmore

From the Publisher:

About the author

Essex Linen-Cotton Blends

Our Book!!!

Oh Buoy

Ahead of the Curve : Learn to Fit and Sew Amazing Clothes for Your Curves
Jenny Rushmore