Helen M. Stevens' Embroidered Butterflies

<p>Aims to provide readers with the ability to create embroidered butterfly portraits in pure silk. Throughout the five chapters a variety of butterfly species are explored, with each one culminating in a masterclass. Colour templates are provided.</p>

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Helen M. Stevens

Crafts & Hobbies

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Helen M. Stevens' Embroidered Flowers (The Masterclass Embroidery Series)

Share the secrets of talented artist Helen M. Stevens as she reveals how you can recreate the splendour of nature in your embroideries. Embroidered Flowers, the first title in the Masterclass Embroidery Series, provides a fascinating insight to the beauty of flowers in all their different habitats with step-by-step advice on how to create your own embroidered floral studies. In five fascinating chapters Helen explores a variety of flowers united by a shared habitat from the now rare treasures of the wildflower meadow - poppies, mallows and cornflowers - to the rambling roses, tall foxgloves and evening primroses of the traditional cottage garden. Each chapter culminates in a masterclass project: a colour template is provided for five original designs ranging in difficulty from simple poppy heads to the more elegant lines of the flat iris. Easy to follow step-by-step colour photographs illustrate the working, in progress, of the designs to ensure that perfect results are achievable. Finally a basic technique section gives valuable advice on choosing threads and fabrics, the transfer of templates, guidance on silk shading and the working of all Helen's most popular stitches, to guarantee that this becomes the essential guide to creating embroidered floral portraits.

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In this title Helen M. Stevens presents a selection of master class projects with a wildlife theme which demonstrate the lifelike effects that can be achieved using pure silk thread.

Helen M. Stevens' Embroidered Animals (Masterclass Embroidery)

NEW IN PAPERBACK The fifth title in 'The Masterclass Embroidery Series' showing how to create stunning embroideries designed by internationally acclaimed textile artist Helen M. Stevens. Helen explores a range of beautiful garden settings, from the intimate and personal cottage garden, to the stately splendour of the formal country park, using pure silk embroidery threads to achieve astonishingly realistic effects. Each of the five chapters builds toward an in-depth masterclass project including landscape templates and close-up detailed colour templates of garden wildlife, as well as colour keys and step-by-step stitching instructions. Easy-to-follow colour photographs illustrate the working stages of each masterclass embroidery, ensuring that perfect results can be achieved when recreating the picturesque designs.

Helen M. Stevens' Embroidered Gardens (Masterclass Embroidery)

<p>In ONE SIMPLE STITCH Helen Stevens begins a crusade to prove that if you can bring your needle up through your fabric, and take it back through to the reverse, you can embroider ...and you can work all the projects in this book. And you don't even need lengthy step-by-step instructions. All the information you need is encompassed by a template, a colour chart and a unique 'directional diagram'. Armed with these three weapons, and one simple stitch, you will slay the dragon which has held you back from working true embroidery. And with no counted thread techniques, there's no counting either. So sit back,enjoy the text and the videos and prepare to become a confident embroiderer. All with ONE SIMPLE STITCH. This ebook includes videos of Helen demonstrating the stitches and techniques.</p>

One Simple Stitch

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