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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

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: September 13, 2011
Price: $24.99

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... Read more >

Embroidery Companion
Classic Designs for Modern Living
Written by Alicia Paulson

Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: August 10, 2010
Price: $22.99

For Alicia Paulson, embroidery is so much more than simply pulling needle and thread through cloth. It’s a way to let loose the imagination, elevate everyday materials by decorating them with fanciful designs, and perhaps most of all, to enjoy the quiet reflection resulting from embroidery’s unique textures, vibrant colors, and...

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Bags in Bloom
Create 20 Unique Flower Purses with Simple Embroidery Stitches and Easy-to-Sew Patterns
Written by Susan Cariello

Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: July 20, 2010
Price: $21.99

A perfect bag for every occasion, in every season!
 
Each season has its own palette of floral colors, from vivid poppies to hardy wildflowers, from autumn leaves to winter roses—and now you can have a bag to match every outfit in every season.
 
In Bags In Bloom, with just 6 simple... Read more >

Samplers

Written by Rebecca Scott

Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: February 16, 2010
Price: $19.95

Samplers have a long history in Britain and the United States, dating from the sixteenth century. They were originally a collection of patterns gathered together for easy reference to be used in embroidery and needlepoint lace. But they later developed into a schoolgirls' exercise, and today they are more often used... Read more >

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

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $24.99

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... Read more >