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STITCHING, NEEDLECRAFT & SEWING | 39 Arts and Crafts Embroidery • Laura Euler • Embroidered textiles are the most personal art form practiced by the arts and crafts movement (c. 1860–1910). This is art from another time that has its own story to tell. Some are the humble work- aday pieces for home use, while others are stag- gering works of art. Features photos of the work of famous designers, including William Morris and Gustav Stickley. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 305 color & 83 b/w photos • 176 pp • 978- 0-7643-4409-1 • HC • $49.99 / £45.99 / 72.00 CAD Counted Sashiko Embroidery: 31 Projects with 80 Kogin and 200 Hishizashi Patterns • Keiko Sakamoto • Here's a complete intro- duction to stitching two little-known traditional styles: kogin and hishizashi. Japanese expert Keiko Sakamoto explains these intriguing decorative re- inforcement stitching styles and their origins in the harsh climate of northern Japan. Next, dive into 31 step-by-step projects that range in difficulty levels. • 8.5" × 10" (216 × 254 mm) • 500 color photos and b/w patterns • 180 pp • 978-0-7643-6673-4 • PB • $29.99 / £27.99 / 42.99 CAD The Cumulative Cloth, Dry Techniques: A Guide to Fabric Color, Pattern, Construc- tion, and Embellishment • Susan Brandeis • Learn surface design for textiles to create rich and personally expressive fabric surfaces. This is the complete how-to resource for adding color and pattern using dry surface design techniques like embroidery, appliqué, layering, building, and embellishing. Includes 45 projects. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 560 color images and dia- grams • 344 pp • 978-0-7643-6722-9 • HC • $59.99 / £54.99 / 85.00 CAD The Cumulative Cloth, Wet Techniques: A Guide to Fabric Color, Pattern, Construc- tion, and Embellishment • Susan Brandeis • Handy and comprehensive for all surface design- ers of textiles, from the novice to the studio prac- titioner. Including projects, this reference teaches how to create rich and personally expressive fab- ric surfaces through the application and layering of textile dyes and pigments in wet techniques. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 425 color images and diagrams • 304 pp • 978-0-7643-6690-1 • HC • $59.99 / £54.99 / 85.00 CAD Fables & Fairy Tales to Cross Stitch: French Charm for Your Stitchwork • Véronique Eng- inger • Forty-four cross-stitch patterns offer you traditional style that’s blended with a charming contemporary simplicity. Many of the designs include multiple motifs, offering you compo- nents to use in your own designs. Also includes 22 projects for showing off your stitchwork, like luggage tags, a mobile, a cookie tin, a quilt, and wall pockets. • 9" × 11" (229 × 279 mm) • 230 color images & patterns • 144 pp • 978-0-7643-5478-6 • HC • $24.99 / £22.99 / 35.99 CAD The Magic of Christmas to Cross Stitch: French Charm for Your Stitchwork • Véro- nique Enginger • Twenty cross-stitch patterns offer you the traditional style of France, blended with a charming contemporary simplicity. Many of the de- signs include multiple scenes and motifs, offering you components to use in your own designs. Also includes projects for featuring your stitchwork, like a stocking or a gorgeous Advent calendar. • 8.5" × 12" (216 × 305 mm) • 103 color images • 96 pp • 978-0-7643-5461-8 • HC • $24.99 / £22.99 / 35.99 CAD Retro Cross Stitch: 500 Patterns, French Charm for Your Stitchwork • Véronique Enginger • These 500 unusual cross-stitch pat- terns blend the traditional style of France with a charming contemporary simplicity. Many of the designs include multiple motifs, offering you components to use in your own designs. Re-cre- ate 1800s and 1900s fashion house designs, trunk labels, travel posters, tea and coffee motifs, and daily life. • 9" × 11" (229 × 279 mm) • 115 color images & patterns • 192 pp • 978-0-7643-5479-3 • HC • $29.99 / £27.99 / 42.99 CAD Embroidery Encyclopedia: Stitches and Techniques for Every Embroiderer • Martine Biessy • A comprehensive guide to embroidery, including 290 stitches (classified by 15 major fam- ilies) as well as 90 projects to make with detailed instructions and precise diagrams. This complete volume also includes thorough information on the threads, tools, and equipment you'll need for prop- er embroidery techniques. • 8.5" × 10.25" (216 × 260 mm) • 1300+ color photos and drawings • 416 pp • 978-0-7643-6849-3 • HC • $55.00 / £50.00 / 80.00 CAD Embroidery Garden: Artful Designs Inspired by Nature • Yanase Rei • Capture the wide va- riety of flowers and greenery in your garden by stitching these embroidered botanical designs. Some bright, some dark, some richly complex like brocade, some simple and joyful—all the moods of the garden are offered to you here. The rich, multi- layered designs from well-known needlework artist yanase rei are at last available beyond her native Japan. • 7.5" × 10" (191 × 254 mm) • 150+ color and black-and-white photos and diagrams • 112 pp • 978-0-7643-6424-2 • PB • $25.99 / £23.99 / 36.99 CAD The Field Guide to Embroidery: 52 North American Animal and Plant Designs for Na- ture Lovers • Jessica Kemper • A fun collection of projects in field-guide format. Stitch your favorite animal, bird, fish, and plant species based on the ecosystems you love or live in. Beautifully accurate designs cover seven North American ecosystems and feature popular (think bears, manatees, and prairie dogs) and less well-known species. • 7" × 10" (178 × 254 mm) • 160 color & b/w images and diagrams • 144 pp • 978-0-7643-6916-2 • HC • $27.99 / £25.99 / 38.99 CAD The Herbarium of Fabric Flowers: Twenty Flower Brooch Projects Translated from Na- ture • Utopiano • Learn to make beautiful fab- ric flower brooches so real you can almost smell them! • 7.25" × 10.13" (184 × 257 mm) • 300 color images • 112 pp • 978-0-7643-6421-1 • HC • $29.99 / £27.99 / 42.99 CAD Heritage Crochet in a New Light: Enriching Your Designs with Heirloom Lace Techniques • Rita de Maintenon • Learn how to use heritage crochet techniques to enrich any crochet project. Clear instructions from master teacher Rita de Maintenon, plus helpful online videos and 160 photos, allow you to master and combine broom- stick, hairpin, and Tunisian lace, plus Aran cables, Irish crochet, and thread lace. For intermediate lev- el crocheters. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 160 color images • 80 pp • 978-0-7643-5347-5 • PB • $16.99 / £15.99 / 23.99 CAD Inspiration Kantha: Creative Stitchery and Quilting with Asia's Ancient Tech- nique • Anna Hergert • Kantha, a type of embroidery art traditionally created by the women of northern India and Bangladesh, offers today’s stitchers a culturally rich method and style for enriching their cre- ations. The book offers the history of kan- tha, hands-on instruction in the stitches and methods, and both simple and complex projects. • 10" × 7" (254 × 178 mm) • 239 color & b/w images • 112 pp • 978-0-7643-5357-4 • HC • $24.99 / £22.99 / 35.99 CAD The Intentional Thread: A Guide to Drawing, Gesture, and Color in Stitch • Susan Brandeis • This guide to the possibilities of expression with the threaded needle expands horizons for all em- broidery artists, from beginners to advanced. Learn how you can "say" almost anything with thread through line, shape, color, and texture. More than 350 color photos and dozens of “Try This!” proj- ects inspire you. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 350+ color images • 224 pp • 978-0-7643-5743- 5 • HC • $39.99 / £36.99 / 56.99 CAD Juno's Nature Embroidery Notebook: Stitch- ing Plants, Animals, and Stories • Juno • Nee- dlework artist Juno combines botanical embroidery with spiritual self-care in 24 quirky designs! Tell your own stories and express your own spirit with thread. 24 designs offer you inspiration plus proj- ects to decorate your everyday life with stitchery: clothing, purses, bookmarks, blankets, and more. The projects include full-size patterns. • 7.25" × 10.13" (184 × 257 mm) • 300 color images and patterns • 112 pp • 978-0-7643-6422-8 • PB • $24.99 / £22.99 / 35.99 CAD Left-Handed Stitchery • Sally Cowan • For the 15% of the population who usually are left out of stitching instruction manuals, this book is a wish- come-true. Sally Cowan, a left-handed professional dressmaker, writes sympathetically for left-handed sewers. Forty varieties of straight, back, caught, blanket, buttonhole, chain, knotted, cross, couching, satin, and laid filling stitches are all illustrated by 96 clear drawings of progressive steps. • 6" × 9" (152 × 229 mm) • 96 drawings • 64 pp • 978-0-88740- 110-7 • PB • $9.99 / £9.99 / 13.99 CAD The Little Guide to Mastering Your Sewing Machine: All the Sewing Ba- sics, Plus 15 Step-by-Step Projects • Sylvie Blondeau • This step-by-step meth- od, illustrated with nearly 200 photos and drawings, helps beginners painlessly dis- cover the basic techniques, from sewing a straight line to sewing on a button. Then practice with the 15 included projects designed especially for beginners. • 10" × 7" (254 × 178 mm) • 198 color photos & b/w illustrations • 80 pp • 978-0-7643-4970-6 • HC • $24.99 / £22.99 / 35.99 CAD Marking Time with Fabric and Thread: Calen- dars, Diaries, and Journals within Your Fiber Craft • Tommye McClure Scanlin, Foreword by Sarah C. Swett • Tommye McClure Scanlin's groundbreak- ing book guides makers in initiating a daily creative practice through fiber crafts, capturing the essence of time. Also gain insights from over 25 other makers, supported by captivating photos of their unique "time capsule" pieces. Experience a transformative journey and create your own personal fiber art calendar, jour- nal, or diary. • 8" × 10" (203 × 254 mm) • 100 color images • 198 pp • 978-0-7643-6821-9 • HC • $34.99 / £31.99 / 48.99 CAD Organic Embroidery • Meredith Woolnough • Here, for the first time, Meredith Woolnough offers crafters and fiber artists a guide to the breathtaking “organic embroidery” technique. Go behind the scenes of her art process and learn to use your sewing machine to turn bits of nature into exquisite art. • 9" × 9" (229 × 229 mm) • 170 color images • 176 pp • 978-0-7643-5613-1 • PB • $24.99 / £22.99 / 35.99 CAD PixlPeople: Cross-Stitch Your Favorite Peo- ple • John-Michael Stoof • Enjoy cross-stitching your favorite people and create high-quality, fun, personal works of art! Using the PixlPeople meth- od, select from a huge swath of elements and follow the provided templates to personalize your characters with physical features, outfits, and ac- cessories. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 3,000 color images • 96 pp • 978-0-7643-6191-3 • HC • $18.99 / £17.99 / 25.99 CAD A Practical Guide to Needle Lace • Jacqueline Peter • Here is the supportive, detailed guide that crafters want for frustration-free learning of all the basics. Step by step, with clear drawings detailing each thread’s location, it teaches the first, core techniques and then teaches 40 different lace pat- terns. Also includes examples of using finished lace in beautiful and creative ways. • 7.5" × 10" (191 × 254 mm) • 150+ color photos and diagrams • 128 pp • 978-0-7643-5869-2 • PB • $24.99 / £22.99 / 35.99 CAD