Elegant Hardanger Embroidery

A Step-by-Step Manual for Beginners to Advanced

Häftad, Engelska, 2007

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Beskrivning

NOW FULLY REVISED AND EXPANDEDYou can do Hardanger embroidery! Have you always wanted to try Hardanger embroidery but thought it looked too difficult? Or have you mastered the basics and want new challenges? This manual will take you step by step from novice to advanced stitcher, with helpful diagrams and hints and tips at every stage. There are stunning Hardanger projects, graded beginner, intermediate and advanced, to guide you to your next level of expertise. You will refer to this Hardanger embroidery book again and again.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2007-12-20
Mått:195 x 275 x undefined mm
Vikt:230 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:64
Förlag:Vetty Creations
ISBN:9780975767702

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Mer om författaren

Yvette Stanton is the publisher and designer behind Vetty Creations. She has a passion for whitework embroidery, and a passion for sharing it with others. Yvette has written three books on whitework, one of them with her twin sister, Prue Scott. Yvette is an accredited tutor with the Embroiderers Guild of NSW, and teaches embroidery classes, specialising in whitework at shops and guild groups around Australia. Yvette Stanton and Prue Scott are award-winning embroiderers with over 15 years' experience of producing beautiful intricate embroideries. Both Prue and Yvette have a particular love for whitework embroidery. Prue is also a trained botanist and botanical artist, and her beautiful designs are a feature of this book. Yvette's previous book, Elegant Hardanger Embroidery was published in 2002 by Simon & Schuster (Kangaroo Press). Both authors live in Sydney.Visit Yvette's blogspot at http://vettycreations.com.au/white-threads/

Recensioner i media

This book does what it says on the cover. It is a step by step manual for those wishing to learn hardanger to the more experienced Hardanger Embroiderer. In black and white it gives clarity to the charts and designs which would be lost in colour. It is a well thought out book with great attention to detail from reading a Hardanger chart to the stitching order. It removes the mystery of looking at a chart and not knowing where to begin. It even tells you how to fix mistakes!!! Complete and detailed stitch instructions and techniques from Kloster Blocks to a looped picot, this book has it all. Following on from the stitch techniques are a selection of projects to complete. A must for the bookshelf for anyone interested in hardanger.

Innehållsförteckning

Discover what it is like to study as if this wonderful teacher were at your side, as you learn from this wonderful Hardanger embroidery book: how to easily create the stitches of Hardanger embroidery how to work those harder stitches that you donít get in beginners books that you donít need to be afraid of cutting the fabric threads hints and tips that you normally only learn in classes how to fix mistakes how to use your skills to work elegant Hardanger projects