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Perfect for those who love whimsy, color, and texture!
This book showed up in my recommendations when I chose a couple of embroidery stitch reference guides and I could not resist the colorful, joyful cover. This book is an absolute delight! Don't let the small number of pages concern you. Every page is a feast for the eyes if you like bright colors, whimsical designs, and texture, texture, and more texture.This quote from the author's intro on page 4 says it all: "Free-form embroidery is not about being precise or meticulous. You have permission to be loose, relaxed, and cozy when stitching. Change the designs, use different colors, try new stitch combinations. Free-form embroideries are made just for the pleasure of stitching and the enjoyment of placing colorful thread on the fabric."Yes!!! Have a bit of a road map (the instructions are great), but stitch what you feel. Your stitching doesn't have to be perfect. That last is a big deal for me since I have to be very precise in much of what I do.The color illustrations are gorgeous, from supplies to stitch instructions and examples, to projects, to the inspirational pieces at the end. There are 21 simple stitches presented that create a lot of texture. I learned more about neat, fun stitches from this book than I have from looking through stitch guides, and I have several.Some friends of mine are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary this month so I used that as an excuse to stitch a fabric postcard for them using one of the projects in the book as my inspiration. I used the same color scheme, but different fabrics (batiks rather than felt), different brand and size perle cotton (bought what I could find at JoAnn), somewhat different techniques and stitches in some places, etc. The finished card makes my heart sing!The instructions provide a lot of detail, but not so much that I felt that I had to be a slave to them. The close-ups of details and the descriptions of the stitches used for those details were really handy.I expect to use this book for inspiration many times. It is already one of my very favorite sewing/crafting books and I have many. This one won't sit on the shelf.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2018
This quote from the author's intro on page 4 says it all: "Free-form embroidery is not about being precise or meticulous. You have permission to be loose, relaxed, and cozy when stitching. Change the designs, use different colors, try new stitch combinations. Free-form embroideries are made just for the pleasure of stitching and the enjoyment of placing colorful thread on the fabric."
Yes!!! Have a bit of a road map (the instructions are great), but stitch what you feel. Your stitching doesn't have to be perfect. That last is a big deal for me since I have to be very precise in much of what I do.
The color illustrations are gorgeous, from supplies to stitch instructions and examples, to projects, to the inspirational pieces at the end. There are 21 simple stitches presented that create a lot of texture. I learned more about neat, fun stitches from this book than I have from looking through stitch guides, and I have several.
Some friends of mine are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary this month so I used that as an excuse to stitch a fabric postcard for them using one of the projects in the book as my inspiration. I used the same color scheme, but different fabrics (batiks rather than felt), different brand and size perle cotton (bought what I could find at JoAnn), somewhat different techniques and stitches in some places, etc. The finished card makes my heart sing!
The instructions provide a lot of detail, but not so much that I felt that I had to be a slave to them. The close-ups of details and the descriptions of the stitches used for those details were really handy.
I expect to use this book for inspiration many times. It is already one of my very favorite sewing/crafting books and I have many. This one won't sit on the shelf.
Perfect for those who love whimsy, color, and texture!
Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2018
This book showed up in my recommendations when I chose a couple of embroidery stitch reference guides and I could not resist the colorful, joyful cover. This book is an absolute delight! Don't let the small number of pages concern you. Every page is a feast for the eyes if you like bright colors, whimsical designs, and texture, texture, and more texture.Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2018
This quote from the author's intro on page 4 says it all: "Free-form embroidery is not about being precise or meticulous. You have permission to be loose, relaxed, and cozy when stitching. Change the designs, use different colors, try new stitch combinations. Free-form embroideries are made just for the pleasure of stitching and the enjoyment of placing colorful thread on the fabric."
Yes!!! Have a bit of a road map (the instructions are great), but stitch what you feel. Your stitching doesn't have to be perfect. That last is a big deal for me since I have to be very precise in much of what I do.
The color illustrations are gorgeous, from supplies to stitch instructions and examples, to projects, to the inspirational pieces at the end. There are 21 simple stitches presented that create a lot of texture. I learned more about neat, fun stitches from this book than I have from looking through stitch guides, and I have several.
Some friends of mine are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary this month so I used that as an excuse to stitch a fabric postcard for them using one of the projects in the book as my inspiration. I used the same color scheme, but different fabrics (batiks rather than felt), different brand and size perle cotton (bought what I could find at JoAnn), somewhat different techniques and stitches in some places, etc. The finished card makes my heart sing!
The instructions provide a lot of detail, but not so much that I felt that I had to be a slave to them. The close-ups of details and the descriptions of the stitches used for those details were really handy.
I expect to use this book for inspiration many times. It is already one of my very favorite sewing/crafting books and I have many. This one won't sit on the shelf.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2018
This book is a delight in all but one way: when you begin trying to recreate these projects, you will quickly realize you are missing one crucial tool: Laura’s hand-dyed floss. So beautiful--and none of the variegated floss at my disposal comes close to the range of tones she shows in her work. But that is my only quibble. The stitches aren’t revolutionary and they aren’t meant to be. This is a book on sitting down and stitching without a pattern but with a general idea of what you want to accomplish, and then winging it till you feel like you are done. This approach appeals to me immensely and bough I am very much an amateur, I finished my version of her “Love at First Stitch” in a day while listening to an audiobook. I made lots of mistakes but it has a funky and quirky feel that I like, and it makes me want to try lots more of Laura’s projects.
Well done.
(I am working from the Kindle Verein, which is formatted pretty well for an embroidery e-book.)
Well done.
(I am working from the Kindle Verein, which is formatted pretty well for an embroidery e-book.)
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