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How to Embroider Texture and Pattern

20 Designs that Celebrate Pattern, Color, and Pop-up Stitching

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Channel your love for the outdoors and build your stitching skills by learning how to embroider stunning textures, patterns, colors, and 3D elements in this must-have guide for both beginner to advanced crafters! Featuring 20 step-by-step embroidery projects of beautiful landscapes, desert canyons, unique flora, and more, How to Embroider Texture and Pattern is filled with vibrant embroidery patterns inspired by wanderlust that will challenge and grow your skills as you bring these beautiful outdoor scenes to life. Also included are easy-to-follow tutorials for over 20 need-to-know embroidery stitches, plus guidance for incorporating fabric prints into your projects to enhance the design, textural and 3D embroidery instruction, how to transfer a pattern, and other fundamental techniques. Have fun with color, create rich textures, and feel confident as you stitch your love for nature. Author Melissa Galbraith is the embroidery artist, pattern designer, and instructor behind MCreativeJ where she draws on her love of nature. Her work has been featured in Love Embroidery magazine, the Woodlawn Needlework Exhibition, Etsy, DMC, and more.

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  • An inspiring embroidery guide for beginner to advanced crafters to learn how to embroider texture, color, pattern, and 3D elements to their embroidery projects
  • Includes helpful opening overviews on fundamental embroidery techniques, from how to transfer a pattern and prepare a hoop to creating your own fabric patterns
  • Features an illustrated stitch guide for over 20 need-to-know stitches that create texture
  • Provides 20 step-by-step embroidery projects and patterns of beautiful landscapes in nature that slowly progress in difficulty
  • Author Melissa Galbraith is the owner of MCreativeJ where she offers embroidery patterns, project kits, and workshops for crafters of all skill levels
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      • Publisher's Weekly

        Starred review from June 19, 2023
        Fiber artist Galbraith’s striking debut shows how to create embroidered landscape scenes. She recommends readers use quilting cotton or linen and illustrates how to transfer a design onto fabric by holding the two up against a window for tracing. The projects make creative use of a variety of stitches. For example, a mountain vista inspired by views from the Pacific Coast Scenic Byway uses the thick, raised buttonhole stitch to create the bushy foliage of conifers, while seed stitches, in which short lengths of thread come together at random angles, give the snow-covered mountains a rugged look. In the Joshua Tree scene, neat rows of rust-colored back stitches are juxtaposed with brown reverse chain stitches to depict sand variations in the desert landscape. The projects are organized from beginner to advanced, with easier designs including a coastal Oregon scene in which rows of waves lap against knotted sand and rocks, but it’s the advanced designs that put this a notch above other embroidery books; for example, carefully stitched gradients and layers of fabric give a forest scene a convincing sense of depth. Additionally, the techniques detailed in the extensive “stitch glossary” will expand sewists’ skills. Gorgeous projects and thorough instructions make this a superior embroidery guide.

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