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Jump into your traveling shoes and join Sue as she takes you around the globe for comprehensive study of trees. From Jamaica to Morocco, from the United States to South Africa, immerse yourself in this worldly adventure and develop an understanding of each tree's ideal climate to flourish.

Crimson Tweed was inspired by holiday cards that Sue collected during her travels through Italy. This ever popular quilt makes a great gift or wall hanging for the holiday season. Included in this book are instructions for 4 bonus holiday projects: the Pomegranate Table Rug, Holiday Birds, 16-Patch Frosty Flurries Pillow, and the Crimson Snow Crystal Pillow.

Twelve new projects created by twelve designers in an exciting range of embroidery techniques and styles.

Sashiko for Making and Mending shows you how to use sashiko stitching to mend rips, repair things like fraying cuffs and create original accessories that look fabulous.With this book, you’ll be able to embrace the visible mending movement-the practice of repairing high quality items you already ow...

Also known as 'counted thread openwork' or 'drawn fabric embroidery', this beautiful whitework technique is achieved by simply pulling on the threads of the fabric, without cutting or drawing them. It is worked on loosely woven fabrics using a fine tapestry needle, and involves accurately counting t...

In this richly illustrated step-by-step guide, self-taught embroidery artist Emillie Ferris shows you how to pick up a needle and thread in the same way as a paintbrush to create strokes of colour and bring images to life on fabric.Inspired by nature and the changing seasons, Emillie has created fiv...

In this second volume of The Design Collective series, Christmas is celebrated in stitch.Twelve of the world’s most talented needlework artisans were invited to each design a project to celebrate Christmas with stitch.Each designer was given the same brief. There were no rules. No guidelines. The ...

Mountmellick embroidery uses floral motifs and heavily knotted and padded stitches. The plants featured are traditionally those that grew in the township of Mountmellick itself, such as oak, blackberry, dog rose, and ivy.Mountmellick embroidery is highly textured with many knotted and padded stitche...

The Untamed Thread takes you inside Fleur Woods’ contemporary fibre art studio in rural Aotearoa New Zealand, where her practice is as untamed as the natural landscape that inspires her — free of rules, guided by intuition and joy in the process.Embracing stitch’s slow, contemplative nature, c...

The Moth and Butterfly Specimen Box in this book is the third in Jane's series of stumpwork insect boxes, preceded by those in Stumpwork Dragonflies (2000), and The Stumpwork, Goldwork and Surface Embroidery Beetle Collection (2004). Lavishly illustrated in colour, with detailed step-by-step instruc...

A unique source of information and inspiration for anyone interested in goldwork embroidery. All of the major techniques and materials associated with goldwork embroidery are explained through clear, step-by-step instructions, worked samples and diagrams, and there are ten fabulous projects to put i...

Inspired by the past, Lesley Wilkins illustrates her techniques with a whole host of wonderful designs flowers, plants, birds, animals and figures. She covers everything from the materials to use and working with a chart, to getting started and how to stitch. Patterns are created by small stitched u...

Based on her own experience with long and short stitch shading, gained through trial and error over the years, Trish Burr provides a greater awareness of how colour affects our embroidery, and what brings it to life.Each aspect is clearly illustrated by example and includes tools for selecting colou...

Nicola Jarvis has created a collection of embroidered artworks that capture the changing seasons in the world around her.In Volume 1, winter and spring are showcased in eight vignettes of local wildlife from a badger, lumbering through frosty undergrowth, a fox pausing beside a misty meadow, sparrow...

Sashiko sewing expert, Susan Briscoe, demonstrates 365 different sashiko patterns, one for each day of the year sew all 365 to make a beautiful sashiko quilt featuring all the designs.Each sashiko pattern is stitched onto a four-inch square piece of fabric and each pattern is illustrated with a phot...

This book brings together the widest range of Hardanger filling stitches ever compiled, with more than 100 filling stitches and variations.It includes both traditional stitches and contemporary ones, from the very simple right through to the incredibly complicated, all broken down into clear, step-b...

Essential Sashiko provides full-size templates and patterns for 92 beautiful sashiko stitches — all the patterns you are likely to need for any project you wish to undertake. It provides detailed lessons on how to form the stitches and how to use the accompanying templates to create your patterns....

A treasure trove of 14 cross stitch and embroidery patterns that invite you to explore the wonders of the botanical world.You will discover an enchanting collection of designs inspired by plants, flowers and trees, all stitched in eco vita naturally dyed organic crewel wool thread.

Explore a collection of 19 enchanting embroidery, cross stitch and punch needle designs that bring the wonders of woodlands and meadows into your home.All the designs are stitched using eco vita naturally dyed organic crewel wool thread.

Explore a collection of 21 exquisite weaving, embroidery and visible mending patterns. which pay homage to nature's bounty, celebrating. the art of needlecraft while embracing the values of embellishment and eco-consciousness.All the designs are stitched using eco vita naturally dyed organic crewel wool thread.

The first book with comprehensive pattern templates for both kogin and hishizashi methods of sashikoSashiko's beauty is understandably popular, and this is the first book on stitching two little-known traditional styles: kogin and hishizashi.Japanese expert Keiko Sakamoto—who began her intensive s...

42 digital collage techniques taught by renowned artist Wen Redmond, for makers to incorporate into (and enrich) their mixed-media workA digital collage technique layers together virtual images into a new piece of art, ready for mixed-media and collage makers to use as an eye-opening element. Artist...

With a career spanning nearly 25 years, Jenny Adin-Christie is celebrated as one of the world’s greatest hand embroidery artists, designers and tutors.Now, for the very first time, a treasured collection of her work has been published by Inspirations Studios.Nine masterpieces of stitched art, repr...

Learn how to stitch your own stories in fabric and thread to create a hand-stitched journal. Jessie encourages readers to collect special pieces of fabric, threads and other ‘treasure’ and explains how to combine these precious items with techniques including simple patchwork, hand embroidery an...