Painting with Thread: Simple Embroidered Pictures to Make and Cherish

by Kit Nicol

Book Overview

From simple landscapes that use only one or two kinds of stitches to fully realized raised and 3-D embroideries: use your needle and thread just like a brush and paint! This exciting and unique approach to producing exquisite embroidered pictures borrows freely from many areas of needlecrafts, including stumpwork and quilting techniques like trapunto. Packed with tips for designing and executing your own stitched "paintings," as well as 20 projects...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 185585791X
• ISBN13: 9781855857919
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Pavilion Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.3" x 8.3" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

extremely detailed

This book was a joy to recieve! It is done in great detail and the pictures of instructions are magnificant! Worth every penny to anyone wanting to learn fabric embroidery plus instructions on watercolour painting on fabric.