The ultimate resource for needlepoint, canvaswork and tapestry embroidery, packed with over 100 decorative stitches and techniques. This essential guide to needlepoint will allow you to bring texture and interest to your stitching, with expert guidance on how to embroider the stitches and how to choose the best stitches for your designs.
In this step-by-step guide, packed full of handy how-to illustrations, beginners and expert stitchers alike will feel confident enough to give every stitch a go. Alongside the stitch directory, you’ll find all the information you need on materials and equipment, and ten bite-sized projects including a glasses case, plant hanger, accessories, gifts and more.
About Emma Homent
Emma Homent is the creative brain behind modern craft brand The Makers Marks. Emma’s designs fuse the cute retro regalia she's nostalgic for with a contemporary aesthetic. She has a lifelong love affair with needlepoint, having been taught at the age of six. Emma is a regular contributor to UK craft magazines, is a member of Our Common Thread, a worldwide needlepoint design collective and is the co-host of Stitch Club London. Visit her website www.themakersmarks.co.uk
Craft Focus, October/November issue
This essential guide to needlepoint will allow you to bring far greater texture and interest to your stitching, with expert guidance on how to embroider the stitches and how to choose the best stitches for your designs. More than 100 stitches are demonstrated with both photos and diagrams, with 10 easy and accessible projects to help ease you into trying out some of the fancier stitches, including a glasses case, plant hanger, accessories, gifts and more.
We say: The ultimate resource for needlepoint, canvaswork and tapestry embroidery, packed with over 100 decorative stitches and techniques.