Floral Stitches: An Illustrated Guide FROM THE PUBLISHER
Create beautiful stitched flowers!
Flowers, gardens, and needlework go hand in hand! In this companion volume to the best-selling Elegant Stitches, Judith Baker Montano shows you how to create floral scenes in thread, ribbon, and more. She offers a fresh collection of embroidery stitches, along with her own stitching wisdom and creative design ideas, for beautiful hand-worked pieces to enhance your home, clothing, and special gifts.
Over 50 flower designs based on new and traditional stitches
Judith's tips make mixed media both incredibly creative and easy to do!
The "Montano Color Chart" helps you choose colors with ease
Convenient small size and hardcover with open-flat wire binding hidden inside
Judith Baker Montano is one of the most recognized names in the field of needlework. She is a world-renowned author, designer, fiber artist, teacher, and lecturer. An authority on crazy quilts and silk ribbon embroidery, she is on the road 200 days a year teaching and lecturing. Her work has been featured in dozens of magazine articles. She has appeared on "The Carol Duvall Show," PBS, The Discovery Network, and The Lifetime Channel. Judith resides in Los Angeles, California
SYNOPSIS
Flowers, gardens, and needlework go together beautifully in the lush designs that make up this collection of fresh floral scenes created in thread, ribbon, and more.
A celebrated artist and teacher offers more than fifty flower designs based on new and traditional embroidery stitches. Along with her own stitching wisdom and creative ideas, she gives detailed advice on the process of adapting photos, drawings, and other reference sources to fabric art. She also includes a helpful chart to simplify choosing colors, and many tips for working mixed mediums, such as ribbon and thread, into harmonious patterns.
About The Author
Judith Baker Montano, one of the most recognized names in the field of needlework, is the author of The Art of Silk Ribbon Embroidery, The Crazy Quilt Handbook, Elegant Stitches, and many other crafts books. When not on the road teaching and lecturing, she divides her time between homes in Colorado and California.
FROM THE CRITICS
Library Journal
A companion volume to the author's Elegant Stitches, this "embroidery idea book" is a collection of stitches useful for crazy-quilt and other stitchery projects. A major section of the book is devoted to flower shapes and stitches one might use to create them. For example, in stitching a starlike shape, such as a pansy, the outline or a chain stitch could be used for the stem; the Victorian velvet pansy or a cast-on stitch for the petals; and the fly-stitch leaf or circle buttonhole stitch for the leaves. Each stitch is illustrated with a line drawing and a photo as well as a written step-by-step description. Highly recommended for public libraries where demand warrants. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
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