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Alison Holt
Search Press
23 May 2012 (US 1 September 2012) / ISBN: 9781844486847
How-To Books/Machine Embroidery
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Reviewed
by Rachel A Hyde
I remarked recently
that Search Press doesn’t publish many hardcover books but
here is another one, and something rather out of the ordinary. They
have published books on machine embroidery before, including more
than one by this author (check the archive for reviews) but not
one on seascapes.
This will obligingly open out flat on your table and stay there
while you work on your own masterpiece. You don’t need much
to take up this addictive hobby and if you own a sewing machine
you have most of it already, something which is always encouraging.
There is plenty to inspire you once the nuts and bolts are out of
the way: buy postcards, take photographs, keep a small sketchbook
and look at the author’s own efforts in this line. Look at
examples of capturing all the components of a seascape, compose
and plan. I found reading this to be very inspiring, getting me
thinking about all the elements of the picture I wanted to create
and how to put them across in the best way. Pictures speak louder
than words with art and there are plenty of these with the text
explaining what has been done and why. There is a chapter on transferring
the design and another showing all the different effects done with
stitches and how to achieve them. Capture the sea in different moods,
pebbles, rocks, headlands and skies and work through a tutorial
on using paper to convey the effect of foaming waves. There are
three projects in here two of the type Search Press has made its
own with lots of staged photographs with captions, a foolproof way
of working through a project. The large format and lush photography
combined with a hands-on approach that is hard to resist had me
reaching for my sewing machine. A great book for any machine embroiderer’
shelf, beginner through to advanced.
Reviews
of other titles by this author
Beginner’s
Guide ot Machine embroidered landscapes
Machine Embroidered Woodlands
Machine Embroidered Flowers, Woodlands and Landscapes
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