Make a Beautiful Embroidered Garden Come to Life <br><br>Imagine an idyllic garden filled with your favourite spring flowers – now you can make it come to life with this step-by-step guide to embroidering a beautiful garden scene!<br><br>Find concise instruction on how to stitch 23 different spring flowers and trees. You'll learn how using unique adaptations of only four basic stitches – Straight, Detached Chain, Buttonhole and French Knots. <br><br>Both novice and experienced stitchers will certainly improve their embroidery skills while creating an original garden scene that is unique and made by you. <br><br>Ann Bernard trained at the Royal School of Needlework and has a lifetime of stitching experience and tips to share. Her approach makes stitching fun and easy-to-learn with detailed directions, diagrams and photos leading you every step of the way.
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Ann Bernard. Stitching Idyllic: Spring Flowers (SECOND EDITION)
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ANN BERNARD'S STITCHING BIOGRAPHY
INTRODUCTION
A SUMMARY ON HAND STITCHING RECOGNIZABLE SPRING FLOWERS USING CREATIVE SURFACE STITCHERY. 2nd ED
PREPARATION IS IMPORTANT
STITCHES: BASIC AND ADAPTED
GROWING SPRING FLOWERS
PLANNING AND STITCHING YOUR GARDEN. or
IT IS NEVER TOO YOUNG TO START A CREATIVE CAREER:
SUGGESTIONS FOR OTHER PROJECTS
COVER STORY: Come stitch with me
FINALLY
CHARTS, COLOURS AND DMC THREADS
OTHER FABRICS FOR BACKGROUNDS
TEACHERS AND GROUP LEADERS
THE LAST AND FINAL WORDS
THREAD COLOUR CONVERSION CHART
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Once in a lifetime, a keen student obtains an authoritative text which becomes a firm foundation for everything that follows. In the world of botanical embroidery – this is that text. It is not the fanciful embroidery of the Jacobeans, nor the drooping coils of Art Nouveau. This is the rendering of botanically correct images using embroidery thread with due attention to hue and colour. It uses the techniques artists use to create the infinite complexity of natural patterns. Follow the detailed instructions and the numerous illustrations and you will be exploring all the different yellows to contrast the daffodil with the crocus. Perhaps you will be making your first detailed observations of the arrangement of leaves on a plant stem. Others will then recognize the plants in the embroidery garden you have created.
With profuse illustrations of stitched gardens, real flowers, embroidered flowers as well as line drawings and how-to diagrams, Ann brings you a lifetime of dedication to embroidery and botany. Anyone who is new to embroidery (as I was) will be successful if they follow her detailed instructions on preparation, colour choice and methods for stitching flowers. Your garden will bloom!
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