Five years ago, Japanese embroidery artist Hiroko Kubota's embroidered cat shirts set the internet alight. Hiroko uses a technique that lets you 'paint with thread'. It requires a small needle, single strands of embroidery floss plus lots of shades of the same colour, and two stitches - one bigger than the other - that repeat again and again. This adorable collection of five projects, core techniques, and templates lets you recreate Hiroko's magic.

There are endless practical and decorative uses for the humble embroidery hoop: from pretty wall art and hanging mobiles to functional pin boards, key racks, mirrors and storage. Kirsty Neale explores the numerous different ways to decorate your hoops with a range of techniques including applique, embroidery, crochet, papercraft, painting, stamping, cross stitch and patchwork. The 100 projects offer a diverse range of ideas for using everything in your craft stash to create unique items for yourself or your friends and family, for every room of your home and for any occasion!

A collection of beautiful quick-to stitch projects that will brighten up every corner of your home. In Home Sweet Home, the traditional cross stitch sampler has been brought up to date with a choice of five picture designs to welcome guests. Three more chapters show how cross stitch patches can be added to a range of easy-sew projects for the home, for family gifts and for Christmas decorations. There are so many ways to help you satisfy your desire to create a handmade keepsake including a simple patchwork quilt, a retro hostess apron, and decorative bunting to name a few. Bright, contemporary fabrics complement the cross stitch motifs, and simple bead, button, applique and embroidery embellishments make the finished pieces even more special.

This is a collection of 50 fun and sassy cross stitch sayings to remind us not to take life too seriously. Each themed chapter presents the ideal answer to the endless demands on a woman's time - husbands, chores, children and work. Whatever the crisis, these witticisms are sure to put a smile on your face! As well as hanging signs, framed pictures and cards, a great selection of project ideas have been developed to help you share the fun with your family and friends. This book offers perfect gift ideas for your girly pals; choose from, among many others, a piggy bank patch (Money can't buy love but it can buy chocolate), a desk diary (Better days are coming, - they are called Saturday and Sunday) and a potholder (Dinner is ready when the alarm goes off).

Faye Whittaker's All Our Yesterdays cross stitch designs are among DMC Creative World's best-selling kits; an ever-popular licence that has been running for ten years. The 33 nostalgic designs depict charming images of bygone days, and reflect upon the pleasure and excitement of childhood and occasions from the turn of the 20th century. This title includes clear colour charts and photographs, easy-to-follow stitching instructions and inspiring project ideas for adapting the designs. Faye's original watercolours are featured throughout, alongside nostalgic rhymes and sayings that will evoke memories of bygone days. DMC Creative World is a worldwide textile company established in France over 250 years ago and now has subsidiaries throughout the world. It has built a reputation for excellence in the global needlecraft market and specialises in hand embroidery products, threads, fabrics and kits.

A classic collection of eight idyllic rural scenes for cross switchers to enjoy from a selection of favorite designers. Each design encapsulates a moment of rustic tranquillity, from a charming cottage brimming with summer flowers, to a bluebell carpet blanketing a woodland scene.Choose from a selection of smaller designs, ideal for making decorative gifts and embellishments for the home, including drawstring bags, cards, coasters and pot lid designs.With clear color charts, photographs and easy-to-follow stitching instructions it's easy to pick up your needle and threads and escape into the peace and beauty of the countryside.

This is a classic embroidery book brought back into print after being unavailable for years, in a new and extended edition.Helen depicts the natural beauty of the countryside using pure silk embroidery threads to capture spring hedgerows, the woodland floor, river banks and summer meadows with breath-taking realism.This new edition includes four step-by-step masterclass embroidery projects giving readers the opportunity to replicate Helen's beautiful nature-inspired embroideries for themselves.Each delightful scene is accompanied with full discussion of stitching techniques and stunning colour photographs, making this the perfect guide for the nature-loving embroiderer.

A delight for fairy fanatics--over fifty fabulous designs to enchant cross stitchers everywhere. It has been said that "fairies are not seen by the eyes but by the heart." The popular cross stitch designers invited to contribute their designs to this book have used their imagination to capture the qualities of the wee folk in this magical collection of fairy designs, to delight and inspire stitchers of all abilities. Enchanting project ideas range from bags to banners, cards to cushions and pot lids to pictures, with full color charts and step-by-step instructions for making up.

Quick & Clever Cross Stitch allows you to create one-of-a-kind samplers featuring special people, places, celebrations and memories. With over 1,000 motifs featured in six themed chapters there are plenty of clever ideas to get you started. You?ll find detailed instructions explaining how to personalize and adapt a wide range of motifs to create your own unique samplers.

The riddles in this book, in both Spanish and English, represent a wide variety of types from the poetic to those with hidden or double meaning. The patterns are representative of the early colcha embroidery designs from Spanish colonial times in New Mexico when embroidery was a major handicraft.

Blackwork is a counted thread embroidery technique in which repetitive patterns are used to fill outlined areas. This book covers the materials and equipment needed, the essential stitches, and outlines in step-by-step detail the working of 49 infill patterns. It is sure to become an indispensable reference for stitchers. Blackwork was originally so called because black thread was most often used on white fabrics, but many of the 16 original charted designs provided show how this technique can just as effectively be worked with coloured threads on coloured fabrics. The beautiful designs include ringing Christmas bells, a charming country cottage, delicate florais and an exotic oriental fan and kimono. There are also ideas for how the delightful designs can be used to create a selection of small projects.

"Important Note about PRINT ON DEMAND Editions: You are purchasing a print on demand edition of this book. This book is printed individually on uncoated (non-glossy) paper with the best quality printers available. The printing quality of this copy will vary from the original offset printing edition and may look more saturated. The information presented in this version is the same as the latest edition. Any pattern pullouts have been separated and presented as single pages. If the pullout patterns are missing, please contact C&T Publishing."