Flower Embroidery

Susie Johns is an artist and designer who has written dozens of craft books, including Circus Embroidery, Knitted Woodland Creatures, How to Embroider, Fat Quarter: Bags & Purses and Fat Quarter: Vintage. Her patterns and designs appear regularly in consumer craft magazines in the UK, such as Let’s Knit, Sew and Let’s Get Crafting, and she has written numerous patterns for suppliers such as DMC. She has also demonstrated various crafts on television. She lives in London.

This large format paperback edition of Flower Embroidery by Suzie Johns will hold a very special appeal to needlecrafters with an interest in embroidery as an art form, the creation of embroidered flowers and plants. Thoroughly 'user friendly' in organization and presentation, Flower Embroidery is especially and unreservedly recommended for personal, professional, and community library Needlecrafting collections.

• Introduction 4The meaning of flowers 6Tools and Materials 8Techniques 12Stitches 16Spring is in the air 22Lily of the valley egg cosies 27Primrose tray cloth 30 Kitchen garden 34Marigold cake band 38Nasturtium napkin 42 Bright and beautiful 44Lily framed picture 48Violets needle case 52Cottage garden 56Sweet William baby dress 60Pansy hoop 64 Scents of summer 68Honeysuckle apron 73Bouquet cushion 76 Exotic blooms 80Mexican blouse 86 Orchid drawstring bag 90 Sunny meadow 94Poppy picnic cloth 97Buttercups and daisies cutlery wrap 100 Herbaceous border 102Lavender sachet 107Aster towel border 110 Woodland walk 112Bluebell bookmark 116Blackberry book bag 120 Winter wonders 124Snowdrops greetings card 128 Camelia napkin 132 Index 134Acknowledgements 134