500 Simply Charming Designs for Embroidery: Easy-to-Stitch Monograms and Motifs

by E & G Crafts Co., LTD

Overview

500 Simply Charming Designs for Embroidery provides plenty of inspiration for embellishing any fabric project with enchanting stitchery. Hundreds of simple but lovely embroidery motifs are presented in clear photographs and illustrations. Easy-to-sew ideas for decorative embroidery are arranged by category, from home, holidays and food to animals, monograms and borders. Essential embroidery techniques are clearly illustrated and explained, along with 15 basic stitches from the backstitch to French knots. An inspiring color photo gallery shows some of the many ways to use these designs to add hand-stitched flair to hats, slippers, scarves, purses, coasters, baby blankets, and more.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781574215090
Publisher:	Fox Chapel Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	09/01/2013
Pages:	88
Sales rank:	203,093
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

E & G Creates, Co., Ltd. is a book publisher based in Japan that offers a variety of sewing, knitting, crochet, and needlework titles.

Editorial Reviews

Embroidery is the art or process of forming decorative designs with hand or machine needlework. "500 Simply Charming Designs For Embroidery" is a lavishly illustrated, 88 page compendium of thoroughly 'user friendly' monograms and motifs that can enable even the most novice of needlecrafts into creting appealing, attractive, cute, and delightful embroidered images. Of special note is the instructive information on embroider basics and fifteen basic stitches. Enhanced with a photo gallery of finished projects, "500 Simply Charming Designs for Embroidery" is an enthusiastically recommended addition to personal and community library Needlecraft reference collections.

500 Simply Charming Designs for Embroidery: Easy-to-Stitch Monograms and Motifs Feature

500 Simply Charming Stitches for Embroidery has something for everyone, with simple but lovely embroidery motifs presented in clear photographs and illustrations. Readers can create charming textured embellishments with this beautiful compendium of classic designs. There's plenty of inspiration here for decorating any fabric project with enchanting stitchery.

This is the perfect book for beginners-even a rookie can pick it up and just start stitching! Easy-to-stitch ideas for decorative embroidery are arranged by category, from home, holidays, and food to animals, monograms, and borders. Essential embroidery techniques are clearly illustrated and explained, along with 15 basic stitches from the backstitch to French knots. An inspiring color photo gallery shows some of the many ways to use these designs to add hand-stitched flair to hats, slippers, scarves, purses, coasters, baby blankets, and more.

Just because the technique has been around for ages, doesn't make it impossible to do. Learn how to embroidery stitch with the help of Design Originals' 500 Simply Charming Designs for Embroidery. Prefaced with embroidery basics for beginners and filled with hundreds of monograms and motifs, this book will satisfy anyone from the novice to the veteran embroiderer. Whether you have clothing or décor that you'd like to spruce up, or you're looking to add an extra element into a new project, 500 Simply charming Designs for Embroidery will come to your aid. What's most striking about this fine collection of embroidery patterns is the layout. Incredibly simplified yet still comprehendible, this vast roundup presents a basic outline for every embroidery pattern in the book. Whether you're seeking wildlife, baby patterns, or holiday icons to embroider, you'll be able to identify what stitches are required for every motif. On one page you'll find the embroidery pattern's outline, on the other a dazzlingly clear photograph of the finished product. It's as if you can reach out and touch these designs. While the proficient seamstress will take great joy in these numerous patterns, the rookie will love them too. 500 Simply charming Designs for Embroidery makes a great gift for beginner crafters because of the accessibility of these patterns. No longer will anyone need to spend extra time absorbing the details of a pattern; these concise instructions convey the basics of embroidery in no time. When guests admire your embroidered pillow or friends praise your monogrammed tote, you'll need to remind yourself that you actually stitched those designs. They may look like heirlooms due to their fine stitchery, but your personal effects will carry a hand-sewn touch to them thanks to this delightful book. Make the choice and be inspired by 500 Simply Charming Designs for Embroidery.

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