Sweet Stitches from the Heart by Hiroko Mori

2011-09-13T00:30:00-05:00

Sweet Stitches from the Heart More Than 70 Project Ideas and 900 Stitch Motifs for Angels, Teddies, Fairies, Hearts, and Alphabets, plus Essential Embroidery and Cross-Stitch Techniques
Written by Anne Sohier-Fournel, Agnes Delage-Calvet and Isabelle Leloup
Photographed by Frederic Lucano and Hiroko Mori

Trade Paperback, 240 pages | Potter Craft | Crafts & Hobbies - Embroidery; Crafts & Hobbies - Cross-Stitch; Crafts & Hobbies - Sewing | $24.99 | 978-0-307-58688-9 (0-307-58688-X)

Sweet Stitches from the Heart offers embroideristas only the sweetest, most charming embroidery and cross-stitch motifs. Your heart will melt at these frolicking fairies, globe-trotting teddy bears, tender alphabets, and other whimsical designs that embellish gifts, garments, linens, and decorative items for the home. Whether you’re new to needlecrafts or have been stitching for years, Sweet Stitches from the Heart will be your go-to resource with essential techniques, 70 beautiful project ideas, and more than 900 motifs. The “Get Stitching” section gives you the basics that you need to get started, including materials and tools, basic stitches, and working with color. You’ll also find instructions for sewing simple projects, like pillows, coverlets, and baby bibs. Of course, you can embellish just about anything with the variety of motifs included here. Let your imagination take flight with these inspiring ideas, and discover how sweet stitching is.

A Rainbow of Stitches by Frederic Lucano

2009-10-20T00:30:00-05:00

A Rainbow of Stitches Embroidery and Cross-Stitch Basics Plus More Than 1,000 Motifs and 80 Project Ideas
Written by Agnes Delage-Calvet, Anne Sohier-Fournel, Muriel Brunet and Francoise Ritz
Photographed by Frederic Lucano

Trade Paperback, 240 pages | Potter Craft | Crafts & Hobbies - Embroidery; Crafts & Hobbies - Cross-Stitch; Crafts & Hobbies | $24.99 | 978-0-8230-1478-1 (0-8230-1478-9)

A Rainbow of Stitches is a how-to-stitch guide, a project idea book, and an encyclopedia of motifs, all in one go-to reference. Begin by choosing a motif from this extensive collection, which ranges from elegant alphabets to 1970s-inspired flowers and leaves, from sweet fairies to vintage-chic ladies in classic Dior dresses. The "Get Stitching" section gives you the basics you need to get started, along with an illustrated how-to of the simple stitches that are used to create all of the motifs. Each of the following sections, which are arranged by color–fresh greens, pretty pinks, timeless blues, rich reds, and elegant white and taupe–presents ideas for embroidering motifs in single colors, showing how much can be achieved with just one color of embroidery floss on a plain background. Includes more than eighty beautifully photographed, inspiring ideas for stitched embellishment, from wearables and personal accessories to a variety of decorative items for every room in your home.

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Sweet Stitches from the Heart by Hiroko Mori

A Rainbow of Stitches by Frederic Lucano

A Rainbow of Stitches Embroidery and Cross-Stitch Basics Plus More Than 1,000 Motifs and 80 Project IdeasWritten by Agnes Delage-Calvet, Anne Sohier-Fournel, Muriel Brunet and Francoise Ritz Photographed by Frederic Lucano

A Rainbow of Stitches Embroidery and Cross-Stitch Basics Plus More Than 1,000 Motifs and 80 Project Ideas
Written by Agnes Delage-Calvet, Anne Sohier-Fournel, Muriel Brunet and Francoise Ritz
Photographed by Frederic Lucano