Beginner S Guide To Hardanger Embroidery

Begin your adventure into embroidery with this simple, step-by-step guide to the basics, featuring two fun projects. Learn the basic stitches and essential techniques to create beautiful freestyle embroidery with this comprehensive guide. Every stitch has clear step-by-step instructions and is accompanied by coloured diagrams, making it easy to create impressive embroidered designs. This short book also includes instructions for two projects—celebration bunting and a retro sunglasses case.

Projects: greetings card, sampler, tray holder, bridal bag, curtain tie-back, cushion cover.

'Elegant Hardanger Embroidery' takes you step-by-step from novice to advanced stitcher, with helpful diagrams and hints and tips at every stage.

This popular book by Ruth Chamberlin now returns as a Search Press Classic, with an updated design and preface on the author by the illustrious embroiderer Mary Corbet. A needle art that dates back over a thousand years, goldwork embroidery involves sewing with lavish metal threads. It has been prized and often used by religious orders and royal households for its opulence and the way the light glimmers and plays on the beautiful metallic designs. Those in love with this brilliant style of embroidery can now create their own with easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide. Through calm and deliberate instruction, Chamberlin's book aims to teach the reader how to create a personal sampler - a piece of embroidery containing a mixture of designs and stitches, which shall provide a basis for future projects and enable readers to continue on their goldwork journey. With multiple stitch techniques - from simple laid stitch to the more complex basket stitch, several design motifs with corresponding templates that can be used, and a luminous gallery of finished work interspersed throughout, Chamberlin's work gently introduces beginners to the exquisite needle art of goldwork embroidery.

This title appeals to a wide, yet still growing market of creative handicraft enthusiasts. With simple instructions and step-by-step diagrams, and including charts and templates, this is a highly accessible and practical guide.

Patricia Bage uses clear, step-by-step instructions, photographs and diagrams to explain how to create drawn thread embroideries that combine traditional techniques with contemporary threads, colours and embellishments.

A beautiful selection of hardanger designs providing a contemporary slant to this classic form of cutwork embroidery. Full instructions and clear charts are provided with each of the 15 projects.