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If you want your crazy quilt
projects to look their best you need some innovative and eye-catching
ways of decorating your seams. This book contains 500 of them
to inspire you to find time to do some stitching every day.
Of course, you don’t have to want to decorate crazy
quilt seams to delve into this book for some beautiful stitch
combinations. Two-thirds of the book is devoted to those 500
patterns, but before you get to that there is a wealth of
other information for the hand embroiderer. This includes
a section showing most of the hand embroidery stitches you
are likely to need plus variations, many including beads and
ribbon. Each stitch is shown in several good-sized photographs
with detailed captions for a pretty foolproof result. I was
impressed throughout the book on the pretty color scheme of
green, pink and purple and combined with pale fabric each
photograph shows the stitch very visibly. Before this is a
short section on basic crazy quilting methods plus other useful
tips, but the bulk of the book is devoted to those beautiful
seam decorations. These are arranged in stitch families, so
you can easily find what you want if you have a stitch in
mind you want to design your seam around. As well as old favorites
such as back stitch, lazy daisy and French knots there are
stitches based around beads, ribbons and even some embroidered
motifs. For ease of use each pattern has a list of stitches
used underneath, and the detailed index at the beginning ensures
you can find what you want quickly. Although all the stitches
are shown in detail for beginners it is the slightly more
experienced embroiderer who will get the most out of the combination
stitch section. At the front are two small photographs of
crazy quilts, but apart from that no other images of them
are present which is a bit of a shame. However, this book
shows one aspect of hand embroidery very well indeed, namely
decorative seams.
If you cannot find a good range of embroidery materials locally
try http://www.searchpress.com for a list of suppliers.
https://www.sewandso.co.uk/ have one of the largest ranges
of embroidery supplies and they ship to over 75 countries.
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