Freshly Stitched: Modern Embroidery projects for Absolute Beginners

Celeste Johnston

Better Day Books

Introduction

The book is published by Better Day Books, a publisher tho really focus on wellness and activating ways to achieve this through creative methods. The aim is to finish a book and feel uplifted in some say. This book is no exception, based for beginners and those who maybe wish to freshen ideas, all on embroidery and its methods.

Fiber Craft Heritage

Easy to Learn Textile Techniques from the Stone Age till Toda, with 52 Try-It Projects

Doris Fischer

Schiffer Craft

Introduction

In a world driven my online technology and moving ‘on’, turning ‘on’, no wonder we find it hard and guilt enticing to switch off. This has made our judgement of lets call them ‘timeless’ crafts a dwindling affair. Time is money, craft, done well takes time. Not ours.

This researched and thought out title, brought into written existence by Doris Fischer, brings the past into the present, the workable present.

Sunny Stitches

Sweet & Simple Embroidery Projects for Absolute Beginners

Celeste Johnston

Lemon Made Shop

Better Day Books

I love the undercurrent of Better Day Books. Built on a foundation of wellness, care for ourselves, for each other, for our minds. All are themes which can be underlying causes for stress - why we are not “okay” inside. As an artist myself, I believe that ‘a stitch in time’ can really save a mind. The question is, do you? Do you understand the need for wellbeing activities? Let’s use this book as a guide for that aspect of your life.

ound And Ground

A practical guide to making your own foraged paints

Caroline Ross

Search Press

Do not be daunted. That is my first suggestion before you begin to read this title and think…this is too much. Let me lead you through my thoughts.

About the writer and artist who is Caroline Ross

A life in the arts, a life in nature. The two run through Ross like a stream, never-ending or separating. In my eyes, she is a key example of someone who lives a life this way, it is no office career, left on a Friday returned to on a Monday, This is an artist who needs to be one, no choice in the matter. Some of us find our place and it looks like she has.

Left-Handed Stitchery

Sally Cowan

Schiffer Publishing

For most of us, we take for granted the copious amount of embroidery guides, all focused at what could be seen as the ‘normal’ stitcher - right handed is a given, not a question we ever ask. But what about those who do not fit? Should the 15% of the population who are yes, left handed (okay not all into stitching but you get the point) Be just overlooked as too little a number to be bothered by? Cowan and Schiffer publishing certainly don’t hold this opinion.