This illustrated embroidery guide takes you step-by-step through seventeen projects using a variety of techniques, including forty-two stitches.
Needlecraft designer Cheryl Fall offers the ideal guide for beginner and intermediate crafters who want to master embroidery stitches. A comprehensive and fully illustrated skill-building section is followed by fun and creative projects using both surface embroidery and counted-thread embroidery techniques.
Embroidery Basics covers:
· How to use a variety of embroidery threads and simple stitches to create beautiful embroidered projects
· Seventeen projects in a wide variety of easy-to-learn techniques, with color patterns, including designs for towels, napkins, pillowcases, purses, cushions, tablet covers, ornaments, and samplers
Guidelines and color illustrations for mastering forty-two stitches
Cheryl Fall has been designing needlecraft patterns professionally since 1986 and is the author of fourteen books, including Embroidery Basics, Simply Samplers, and three titles in the popular Dummies series. She has written more than 2,000 articles on how-to crafts and maintains her own Needleknowledge.com website. Fall was also the host of the nationally distributed PBS Plus series The Creative Life. She lives near Portland, Oregon.