Reader's Digest Complete Guide to Needlework

by Reader's Digest Association

Book Overview

Some of us take pride and pleasure in our needlework skills, while others of us have been drawn to sewing crafts but haven't been confident enough to try them. Happily, this book is a gold mine of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0895770598
• ISBN13: 9780895770592
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Reader's Digest Association
• Length: 504 Pages
• Weight: 2.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 10.1" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Complete guide to needle work, this one does not have dragon on cover, so huge& going through still,

Hoping this has dragon embroidery, but the kids are accomplished crafters & they'll love it too.

Wrong Book sent

I ordered the book above and received an older version.... which I already had. Please send me the book above. CMcKee

This Wonderful Book

This is a really great book. It showed so many nicely illustrated pictures of all the stitches in knitting and crocheting. I only looked at it from the library, though. I tried to buy one and I couldn't. Now, since they don't make it anymore, you have to actually buy it from a person.(used) It is a very great book that I recommend for craft-lovers.

Needlework of all kinds

This book is just packed full of information of all kinds of needlework and is easy to read and understand. I have been looking for a book that would be helpful in showing differents stitches in knitting and crocheting and found to my amazements that this book was just perfect. It not only showed crochet and knitting stitches, it had embroidery, needlepoints and more. I have ordered two more books since I first ordered my book and found it so informative. I purchased one for my friend "Maria" and one for my daughter "Ann".

Great reference for a beginner stitcher

This book is packed full of information - from projects, hints and tips, and techniques for creating your own designs. The best part: detailed embroidery stitch guides which guide you though each stitch with a combination of pictures (usually 6 per stitch) and instructions. While looking for a needlework instruction book, none of the other books could compare. Either they lacked a variety of stitches or they did not have enough pictures to serve as a self-teaching guide for a visual learner with little sewing experience. Although I was primarily interested in the embroidery section, I love that this book covers a breadth of needlework crafts to explore. I keep a tightly pruned bookshelf - only purchasing and keeping books that I will refer to again and again. This book made the cut!