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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 >

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 >