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Create Your Own Cross Stitch: How to Turn Your Design Ideas into Reality
Create Your Own Cross Stitch How to Turn Your Design Ideas into Reality Author:Shirley Watts Starting with the simplest of natural subjects -- a leaf -- Shirley shows how easy it is to make a cross stitch design, even if you have no particular artistic ability or training. — Shirley guides the reader step-by-step through to more complex designs, explaining how to choose colours; how to get the best from the new range of coloured backgrou... more »nd fabrics; how to incorporate the latest metallic or luminous threads, while retaining subtlety of design; and how to make simple sketches and collect reference material. This book also demonstrates how to approach photography with cross stitch in mind, and shows how to convert your photographs into embroideries.
To demonstrate the design techniques and give further inspiration, the book contains over 30 of the author's own delightful cross stitch patterns, each with a full-colour picture of the finished embroidery, together with a stitch chart and key.
Designs include leafs, nuts and mushrooms, autumn berries, garden flowers, pets, wild animals, and birds and butterflies.
All designs have been stitched with DMC threads, and some include equivalent shades in Anchor, Madeira or Danish Flower threads.« less