Every Kind of Patchwork

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Campbell-Harding, Valerie

Pyman, Kit

Walker, Michele

Crafts & Hobbies

Pan/Macmillan

Strip Patchwork

Explains how to dye fabrics, plan strip quilts, and find design ideas, shows the strip piecing technique, and suggests a variety of projects

Dover Pubns

Faces and Figures in Embroidery (A Batsford Embroidery Paperback)

Chrysalis Books

For hundreds of years, embroiderers have been finding inspiration in flowers and plants; and pattern, colour and texture in plant material provide an immense range of possibities for modern embroidery. Valerie Campbell-Harding has written a sourcebook which will guide and inspire embroiderers who wish to make plants a main theme of their work. The book begins with a section on looking for patterns, with suggestions on collecting material. The following chapters move on to ways of designing to give results suitable for different types of embroidery and quilting. The author looks at design using patterns from nature, and shows how the repetition of motifs can give effective designs; silhouettes and negative shapes ar also investigated. A chapter is devoted to the study of tone and colour in plants and its interpretation in stitchery. A final chapter looks at successful completed examples, and considers the process of translating a design on paper into a finished embroidery. The author teaches Embroderers' Guild groups and City and Guild courses. She is a member of the Practical Study Group of the Emroiderers' Guild. She is also the author of "Textures in Embroidery", "Faces and Figures in Embroidery" and "Strip Patchwork".

Flowers & plants in embroidery

B.T. Batsford

It’s back in print: one of the most in-demand stitchery titles, filled with more than 250 inspirational drawings and photographs. Leading embroiderer Valerie Campbell-Harding explores every aspect of strip patchwork, an extremely versatile craft used to create wall hangings, quilts, cushions, and clothes. She covers 15 different techniques for piecing the strips, including log cabin and machine piecing, and provides detailed instructions for every one.  Stitchers will especially appreciate the wealth of design ideas and the technical advice on how to build abstract motifs, geometrical patterns, and pictures from a variety of colored strips of differing lengths and widths.

This is a guide to producing a wide variety of stitch effects with a machine. It covers running, whip, cable, zigzag, satin and combined machine stitches.

Machine Embroidery: Stitch Techniques

Watts, Pamela

B.T.BATSFORD LTD

Fabric Painting for Embroidery

This resource book offers a store of information to anyone working in textiles; it surveys tools and equipment and explains the many methods possible for transferring patterns on to farbric. Each method is explained with precise instructions, together with illustrations of the design source and method. The range of methods covered includes thread wrapping, stencils, screen printing, printing with brushes, printing with card, block printing, potato printing, rolling, transferring photocopies, painting on fabric, starch resists, using candles, wax resist, gutta resist, marbling and metallic powders.

This guide to stitching is presented by 9 embroiderers who present a selection of easy projects which include a variety of alternative colour schemes, stitching methods and techniques. It contains sections on the different fabrics to use, the materials and tools required and fabric paints and crayons. A variety of projects, all accompanied by colour illustrations and working diagrams includes: cushions; mirror frames; book covers; greetings cards; accessories; jewellery; pictures and panels. This book is aimed at those who have some knowledge of stitching but need a little inspiration and guidance.

Starting to Stitch Creatively

Batsford

Machine Embroidery : Stitched Patterns

A guide to machine embroidery which explores basic patterns and presents ideas for combining them with hand stitching, quilting, applique, free-machine and other fabrics. There is also a gallery of finished pieces by leading embroiderers illustrating the techniques described in the book.

Valerie Campbell-Harding and Pamela Watts have combined their considerable talents to produce a book that shows how to gain complete mastery over your sewing machine and produce exactly the effect you want. Techniques with running stitch, whip stitch, cable stitch, zigzag, satin stitch and combined machine stitches are included, with a wealth of imaginative ideas and practical applications. Sections include: how to choose a machine, using the new high-speed and metallic threads, and general problem solving.

Machine Embroidery Stitch Techniques

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Every Kind of Patchwork

Strip Patchwork

Faces and Figures in Embroidery (A Batsford Embroidery Paperback)

Flowers & plants in embroidery

Strip Patchwork

Machine Embroidery: Stitch Techniques

Fabric Painting for Embroidery

Starting to Stitch Creatively

Machine Embroidery : Stitched Patterns

Machine Embroidery Stitch Techniques