embroidery

"Featuring sketching and illustration instructions, basic stitches, embroidery techniques, and six projects with portraits of famous women, this book is a must-have tool for hands-on artists and crafters. If you're a beginning embroiderer, start with the basic stitches and embroidery instructions at the beginning of the book. Essential tools, warm-up exercises, tips for embroidering facial features and hair, and general information on embroidery will give you the know-how you need to get started"--.

Provides instructions and patterns for more than one hundred embrodery designs and twelve projects.

Provides embroidery patterns and projects to make pins, buttons, patches, and more.

Contains more than 30 homespun craft projects for young crafters includingmaking bags, dolls, bracelets, hats, and more. The book is divided into three sections, on knitting, sewing, and embroidery, and each one begins with a primer on basic techniques and stitches.

The story cloth made for her by her aunt and uncle chronicles the life of the author and her family in their native Laos and their eventual emigration to the United States.

Provides instructions for a variety of needlework stitches and designs for pillows, hangings, and other projects.

A guide to embroidery for beginners, focusing on the doodle-stitch, or freeform style in which there are no rules, discussing tools and materials, showing how to make different types of stitches, and including instructions for nearly thirty projects.

A beginner's guide to embroidery that includes step-by-step instructions for basic techniques and twenty projects designed to help practice the craft.

Provides rhymed easy-to-follow instructions for straight-stitch embroidery and lists materials needed to embroider name samplers to be framed or made into pillows.

Introduces the simple technique of sashiko--a Japanese hand-sewing method using a running stitch to form geometric patterns--to repair and decorate clothing and home textiles.