Nature in Needlepoint Author:Eva Brent, Meg Merrill This stunning book captures the full beauty and elegance of nature's most striking wild creatures in twenty original designs for needlepoint. Shown in full color and clear graph treatment, here are breath-taking realistic portraits of exotic wild animals, including the lion, tiger, jaguar, cheetah and zebra, as well as enchanting and charmin... more »g owls, rabbits, swans and frogs. The first part of the book gives all the basic instructions for expertly working the designs on canvas, complete with diagramed stitches, guidelines for estimating yarn and canvas requirements and explicit details for transferring graphed patterns to canvas.There is also an invaluable list of tips and rules that both the beginner and expert will want to refer to again and again to achieve truly professional needlework. Full-page, color-keyed graphs are presented for each canvas design, accompanied by a descriptive text for each animal that describes in fascinating detail the natural habitat, distinguishing characteristics and special place in the animal kingdom that each creature holds.In many cases, key areas of the graphs have been isolated and enlarged for effective use as small needlepoint projects on their own.« less