30 Day Challenge: Embroidery
A Day-by-Day Guide to Learn New Stitches and Create Beautiful Designs
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
Challenge yourself to learn dozens of embroidery stitches and use them to create 30 simple projects that are ready to display.
If you’ve always wanted to learn embroidery but haven’t known where to start, The 30-Day Embroidery Challenge is the perfect way to jump-start your creativity and get stitching. Even if you’ve never picked up a needle, you will quickly learn everything you need to know to master embroidery.
After an overview of embroidery basics, author Jessica Anderson shows you how to create—each day for 30 days—one new stitch and one embroidery design that features that stitch. The easy-to-follow projects include a variety of popular modern motifs such as flowers, birds, houseplants, rainbows, and more, and only take an hour or two, or less, to complete. As the book progresses, you will strengthen your skills with designs that combine multiple stitches.
You can do one project per day in order or follow your own schedule and pick and choose. By the time you’ve stitched your way through the book, you will have an amazing collection of embroidery designs to hang up and display your skill and creativity.
This complete course in embroidery includes:
Everything you need to know to gather supplies, set up your hoops, and prep your threads and needles 30 essential and more-unusual embroidery stitches clearly shown in step-by-step illustrations 30 simple modern embroidery designs you can complete in a hour or two Tips for finishing and showing off your hoops Ideas for embellishing tote bags, jewelry, and more with the embroidery designs Two bonus challenge projects to stretch your newfound skills
Embroidery is one of the most popular and versatile crafts and is ideal for beginners. It’s affordable, can be done almost anywhere, and doesn’t require years of practice to achieve great results. If you’re new to embroidery or want to learn new stitches and expand your repertoire, The 30-Day Embroidery Challenge will give you the inspiration and know-how you need to take joy in this lifelong skill and creative endeavor.
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Cutesy Crafts blogger Anderson's breezy debut provides 30 nature-centric embroidery projects designed to be completed over the course of a month. An introductory rundown of necessary supplies notes that woven fabrics are easier to work with than knit fabrics, and step-by-step instructions show how to thread a needle and transfer templates to fabric with an erasable pen. The projects introduce a new stitch or knot per day, starting with the simplest (the stylized "Geometric Hummingbird" design is made up solely of straight stitches, or "the most basic of all the stitches") and building up to the more complex (the "Lovely Lemons" motif uses the basketweave stitch, which Anderson describes as "part embroidery, part weaving," to give the fruit texture). Other designs include a flowering cactus made from looped blanket and satin stitches, a pinwheel featuring split and herringbone stitches, and a beach scene created with French knots and whipped back stitches. The uncomplicated and cumulative designs are ideal for beginners, and tips on embroidering T-shirts and tote bags are a welcome bonus ("You want to use very short stitches for clothing items. This is especially true for stretchy T-shirts"). The result is a fabulous primer on embroidery.
