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With Stitches: New Approaches, Jan Beaney will help embroiderers go beyond traditional methods of working and reach towards new, more imaginative approaches. The aim of this book is to encourage people to enjoy stitches and stitching and to explore the endless range of effects and textures that these can give.

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Stitches: New Approaches
Batsford Classic Embroidery

Author: Jan Beaney
Pages: 238
Page size: 71/2" x 10"
Publisher: B. T. Batsford
Cover: Soft
Item Code: 4G4E0772
Weight: 1.85 lb

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Stitches: New Approaches, a classic text by one of the UK's leading embroidery experts, aims to encourage embroiderers to enjoy stitches and stitching, and to explore the endless range of effects and textures that can be created. This book looks at over four hundred stitches and their variations. Each stitch is first presented in the traditional way of working, but suggestions follow for spacing and working it in more unusual ways, and with a wide variety of yarns. A section on design starting points introduces the reader to the principles of observing natural objects and interpreting them for embroidery.

About the Author

Jan Beaney has been involved in the world of embroidery for over thirty years as a designer, tutor and author. She teaches extensively in the UK, USA, Canada, New Zealand and Australia and is a member of the 62 Group. Jan presented the successful BBC TV series Embroidery and has appeared on ITV's This Morning and BBC's Good Morning with Anne and Nick.

 

Table of Contents

 
Acknowledgments 6
Foreword 7
Stitchery: A personal view8
Stitches for functional embroidery12
Starting Points:  
1. Choice of background fabrics13
2. Threads16
3. Needles20
4. Frames22
An approach to stitchery24
Exploring two stitches27
Cretan stitch27
Raised stem stitch band52
Looking at other stitches70
Ideas for design189
Design starting points: 
1. Looking and sketching196
2. One-stitch pictures and patterns214
3. Hand stitching with other techniques 225
Conclusion 231
Books to read233
Suppliers 235
Index to stitches237

A Personal View
A Personal View

The Tree
The Tree

Tree
Tree


Example Life Is Just a Little Bowl of Cherries
Stitch Example and Life is Just a Little Bowl of Cherries

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Jan Beaney and Jean Littlejohn Book Series & Other Books

 

Series includes dimensional stitching by hand & machine with heavy weight fibers, threads and yarns, bonding/fiusibles, water souble stabilizers, painting, stamping, fabric manipulation, texture and more.

 

Other Books
Stitch Magic
Stitch Magic and Interpretation
by Jan Beaney and Jean Littlejohn

Other Books
Stitches: New Approaches
Stitches: New Approaches

by Jan Beaney

Vanishing Act
Vanishing Act

Machine Embroidery
on Soluble Fabrics
Book 1
Voluptuous Velvet Bk 2
Voluptuous Velvet

Book 2
by Jan Beaney and Jean Littlejohn

Bonding and Beyond
Book 3
Transfer to Transform cover
Transfer to Transform
Book 4
Gardens and More
Gardens and More
Book 5
Conversations with Constance
Conversations with Constance
Book 6
Trees as a Theme
Trees as a Theme
Book 7
Giving Pleasure
Giving Pleasure
Book 8

New Dimensions
New Dimensions
in Hand and Machine
Embroidery
Book 9
Double Vision
Double Vision
Book 10
A Tale of Two Stitches
A Tale of Two Stitches
Book 11
A Sketch In Time
A Sketch in Time
Book 12
No Stone Unturned book 13
No Stone Unturned
Book 13
Connections Book 14
Connections
Book 14


Colour Explorations
Book 15
by Jan Beaney & Jean Littlejohn

Over the Line
Over the Line
Book 16
Grids to Stitch
Grids to Stitch
Book 17
Seductive Surfaces
Seductive Surfaces
Book 18
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Red
Book 19
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Enrich & Embellish
Book 20

 

 

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