Over 50 Exclusive Designs.
This beautiful book spills over with more than 50 original designs from Helena Turvey suitable for the new and experienced cross stitcher alike.
Each one of the five chapters - pictures, clothing, gifts, soft furninshings and items for children - reflects the diversity of the animal world, from lemurs and leopards to seahorses and swans. Projects feature familiar animals, such as a magpie jewellery case, and some more exotic creatures, such as an antelope door stop. A comprehensive section devoted to materials and techniques offers useful advice on equipment, stitching and suppliers, and each project has clear detailed instructions, easy to read colour charts and thread keys.
Small and simple designs feature alongside more complicated and advanced projects. In the clothing chapter there are ideas for adding style to ready-made items, including stitching bees to brighten up a sunhat and an eye-catching hummingbird to decorate a blouse collar. The gifts chapter explains how to make enchanting and unique presents for all sorts of occasions, from an animal advent calendar to a love birds Valentine heart. The soft furnishings chapter shows you how to add colour and style by dressing up curtains with leopard tie-backs and decorating a lampshade with a cross stitched giraffe.
An array of cards, pictures and frames inspired by the natural world in the first chapter and a bear puppet, a camel trinket box and a trutle bookmark in the chapter of items for children combine to make this book an exciting and versatile collection for all cross stitchers.
Includes full colour photographs.
