Jill Gordon's Needlepoint: Creative Tapestry Designs

By Jill Gordon

More a wellspring of delicious inspiration than a true how-to book, Jill Gordon's Needlepoint is filled with exquisite ideas and loads of colorful photos of her luscious designs. In their subtle... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1567992153
• ISBN13: 9781567992151
• Release Date: December 1899
• Publisher: Friedman/Fairfax Pub
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 2.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.8" x 0.8" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

Beautiful Designes - Charts in Grayscale

The designs are gorgeous, but the charts are in grayscale and very small, you need to print them darker & much larger to see them. As a result I'm not happy with the book. Also one of her most beautiful patterns of Waterfalls is not in the book. I bought several books on needlepoint, all of them out of print, and all of them had patterns printed larger and in color. This one, however beautiful, is going back. I'm 65 I need glasses now, so struggling to see the pattern is not something I'm willing to do.

I loved this book!

I have another perspective on this book. I had never before done any needlepoint, and I have just completed the salamander and frog needlepoint without any trouble. Yes, I do have experience reading charts (I do lots of complex knitting, and I did detailed cross stitch about 15 years ago), but I would not discourage someone from buying this book just because they are not a needlepoint expert. I subscribe to the "If you want it enough, you can do it" school of thought. If you find richly colored needlepoints with unusual subjects to be inspirational, this is certainly the designer for you. I don't find most needlepoints to be worth the time invested, as they seem rather ordinary. Jill Gordon's designs are all extraordinary! By the way, Jill Gordon is aware that she has made people unhappy by not charting all of the designs in this book. She has been having them charted and is making them available on her web site. I for one can't wait for the flamingo tapestry to be available!