The Left-Handed Embroiderer's Companion

Are you frustrated by right-handed embroidery instructions and having to mentally flip them, use a mirror, or substitute right for left and vice versa? Be frustrated no more! Written by a left-hander, this stitch dictionary shows you the LEFT way to do embroidery. Written in Yvette Stanton's clear, step-by-step style, this book will be your constant embroidery companion as it shows how to do over 170 stitches comfortably and sensibly, for you as a left-hander. Surface stitches and counted thread stitches are carefully explained, with many helpful diagrams and photos. Right-handed teachers will appreciate the right-handed diagrams showing the difference between what they and their left-handed students do.

Book Contents

Hand embroidery needles
Starting a thread
Finishing a thread
Antwerp edging stitch
Armenian edging stitch
Back stitch
Basque stitch
Braid edging stitch
Breton stitch
Bonnet stitch
Bullion knot
Buttonhole stitch
Cable stitch
Cable chain stitch
Cable plait stitch
Cast on stitch
Ceylon stitch
Chain stitch
Chevron stitch
Chinese knot
Colonial knot
Coral knot stitch
Couching
Cretan stitch
Cross stitch
Diamond stitch
Diamond upright stitch
Drizzle stitch
Eyelets
Feather stitch
Florentine stitch
Fly stitch
Four-sided stitch
French knot
Glove stitch
Gobelin stitch
Hedebo stitch
Hem stitch
Herringbone stitch
Hollie stitch
Jessica stitch
Long and short stitch
Loop stitch
Montenegrin stitch
Mountmellick stitch
Mountmellick thorn stitch
Needlewoven bars
Norwich stitch
Nun stitch
Palestrina stitch
Parma stitch
Pearl stitch
Pin stitch
Plaited braid stitch
Queen stitch
Raised fishbone stitch
Rhodes stitch
Rope stitch
Rosette stitch
Running stitch
Satin stitch
Scottish stitch
Scroll stitch
Seed stitch
Sheaf filling stitch
Shisha stitch
Smockers' knot
Split stitch
Spider web stitch
Stem stitch
Tent stitch
Thorn stitch
Trellis stitch
Turkey work
Vandyke stitch
Wheat ear stitch
Woven picot
Index