Internationally renowned ribbon artist, Di van Niekerk, has brought
the textile and embroidery worlds together to create a unique book
that combines the two mediums, with fabulous results. Working in
close association with felt specialist Toody Cassidy, and featuring
art by felt designer Razaan Jakoet, Di has produced a book that
will delight and inspire beginners keen to work with the striking
fusion of felt and silk. Learn to make flat nuno felting and felt
surfaces, using wool, wool and silk and paper silk, and adorn these
with exquisite silk ribbon designs. Beginning with detailed
instructions on the felted backgrounds, followed by a step-by-step
section on how to make the flowers and creatures in silk, the book
then introduces readers to 16 stunning projects, from pieces to
hang in your home through to accessories you can wear and keep, to
practice and apply your newfound embroidery skills. The following
flowers and creatures appear in the designs: nasturtiums, wild
dagga, cosmos, pansies, English roses, miniature roses, marguerite
and meadow daisies and grasses, wild flowers (buttercups, lavender,
poppies, grasses) fuchsias, daffodils, wisteria, filler flowers
(forget-me-nots and foliage), sunbird and sparrow. The stitch
gallery includes spider web roses, ribbon stitch, pistil stitch,
ribbon stitch with curled-up tip, detached chain stitch, fly stitch
rose, fly and ribbon stitch rose, French knots, grab stitch, loop
stitch, stab stitch, stem stitch rose, twisted straight stitch,
blanket/buttonhole stitch, crochet filling stitch, detached
buttonhole, and many more.
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