Not Your Mama's Stitching: The Cool and Creative Way to Stitch It To 'Em
Forget the fair young maiden painstakingly embroidering pillowcases for her hope chest. Picture a liberated lass (that would be you) creating chic fashions and accessories while sipping a glass of whatever and saving the planet. Not Your Mama's Stitching lets you choose from more than twenty projects to make or embellish home decor items, garments, accessories, gifts, and more.
The rarely recorded pattern for this beautiful and mysterious stitch is finally documented in this unique resource for crocheters. Color photos accompany detailed step-by-step instructions for transforming the original square pattern into rectangles, triangles, and circles with eight wonderful designs. Featuring seven unique projects—including an afghan, a basket, a table runner, a hat, and a scarf—this creative manual illustrates how this perfect, two-round stitch offers versatility of color because of its unique, textured color overlap.
The New Macrame: Contemporary Knotted Jewelry and Accessories
Now macrame is for making attention-grabbing jewelry, hot accessories, and other projects. Best of all, if you can tie your shoes, you can create any of these great-looking items. No expensive material to buy, no fancy equipment needed, and no experience required. The “Knots 101” course will show you how every stitch is done, so you can get started almost immediately.
Prepare to be bewitched by this original collection of fantasy-inspired designs from one of the cross stitch world's favourite designers, Joan Elliott. A wealth of imaginative designs, including wizards, witches, dragons and unicorns, are intricately brought to life with luxurious metallic threads and glittering beads. In this work, conjure up a variety of enchanting projects, ranging in size from small cards, gift bags and keepsakes to larger framed pictures, hangings and cushion covers. The easy-to-follow making up instructions, clear colour charts and stunning photographs help to achieve a magical result every time.
This book includes 25 breath-taking designs inspired by Jayne's own sketchbook and photographs taken during her recent summer safari adventures.Get a glimpse inside Jayne's sketchbook and read fascinating extracts from her safari journal, bringing the cross stitch to life.It features the most popular and magnificent animals on earth such as the rhino, elephant, giraffe and leopard, each captured in the beauty of its natural surroundings.The projects range in size and complexity, but incredible realistic detail is achieved whether a small half page, or a larger four page chart design has been chosen from the book to stitch
