Stitched With Love

A true treasure of historical romance, this value collection features nine stories of courageous women hoping for a life stitched with love.

Learn how to use felt, cotton, and linen to create beautifully layered designs full of texture and contrast, then embellish with just a handful of basic embroidery stitches.

Explore personal transformation through the stitching of dreams and intentions. Anything but ordinary, Mystical Stitches combines the beloved and accessible craft of embroidery with a spiritual element, introducing a rich treasury of 200 magical symbols you can use to set an intention and create personal icons to wear or embellish items in the home. Christi Johnson offers unique patterns inspired by botanicals, animals, numbers, the cosmos, earth elements, zodiac signs, and mythical beasts, for novice or well-practiced crafters to combine into talismans with personal meaning. Johnson’s folk art style is vibrant and unintimidating and provides a framework for bringing spiritual elements into physical form. This publication conforms to the EPUB Accessibility specification at WCAG 2.0 Level AA.

Forget the dry color theory! This guide is fun, conversational, practical, and beautifully inspiring. The one-of-a-kind resource for modern quilters includes hands-on exercises with a true workbook approach to help evaluate color choices. A 150-color swatch card is included.

A collection of 15 country-style projects for weddings, babies, children and holidays, including quilts, pillows, a tablecloth and a cookie recipe. The book comes with a CD-ROM with printable patterns and a virtual applique class from Robyn Pandolph in a step-by-step video.

"Classic embroidery motifs are made new with fresh color combinations using cotton and wool thread"--Back cover.

Includes 20 projects to make, designer and author demonstrates how she learned to sew and how she has learned that what she makes is important to the community where she grew up.