This all-original guide features over 60 charted designs that miniature enthusiasts and needleworkers can create at a fraction of store prices.
It’s easy to enhance dollhouses and any other miniature setting with rugs, pillows, quilts, bedspreads, upholstery, napkins, window treatments, chair cushions, and more.
Includes complete instructions, 64 charts, and a metric conversion chart.
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Cross Stitch 101 is an article, more than 6,000 words that gives helpful tips and information on cross stitching. The article, which is written for beginners, contains basic stitches and explains how techniques such as gridding your fabric helps make stitching easier. It also covers techniques such as railroading, which helps your needlework look neater. Besides offering useful links, Cross Stitch 101 also includes about 30 full-page photos of both finished projects done by the author, as well works-in-progress.
David & Charles published Jane Greenoff's first cross stitch book, Cross Stitch Castles and Cottages, in 1987; today she is working on her 16th cross stitch title! Unfortunately, many of Jane's earlier books are no longer in print, so, to celebrate over 20 years of designing, she has put together this special selection of her most popular designs to date for today's stitcher. Four themed chapters focus on the subjects most requested over the years including celebration designs for births and weddings, charming cottages and fantastic florals. Project ideas for the finished stitching range from cards and cushions to pincushions and pictures. Full stitching instructions are provided for all the featured designs, although Quick Start will give you a shortcut to getting stitching.
For centuries, alphabets and initials have provided favourite designs for stitchers of all abilities, especially for monograms and traditional samplers. This collection presents 40 easy-to-stitch alphabet projects, which make gifts for many different occasions. The designs include commemorative samplers, a Christmas sampler and a Gaelic sampler, plus many decorative ideas for using single initials. The designs are shown in colour photographs and there are also charts. Most of the designs are in counted cross stitch; others feature such techniques as tent stitch, satin stitch and whitework. For beginners there are instructions on all techniques, including stretching and framing. For the more adventurous, there are many suggestions for using the charts and alphabets in original ways to create unique, personal samplers or designs.