Shay Pendray's Needlecraft Projects

by Shay Pendray

Book Overview

From her acclaimed and long-running PBS series "The Embroidery Studio," award-winning designers share their patterns and techniques. Learn all the basic stitches like backstitch, beading stitch, and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806948647
• ISBN13: 9780806948645
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: Sterling
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.8" x 11.3"

Customer Reviews

A beautiful gift for the stitcher in your life!

This full-color collection offers the skilled and the beginning stitcher a wealth of designs and techiques to add to their needle- work library. Diagrams and patterns are colorful and easy to locate. The designer profiles will interest the advanced stitcher who may already know the designers' work--now there is a face to go with the design! Embroidery, cross-stitch, canvas, tassels, samplers and crazy quilt are each covered with multiple projects. Enhanced techniqes of Japanese embroidery, ribbon work, overdyed fibers and a special section for children round out the collection. Each of the ten sections concludes with a technique wrapup of that specific category of design. This is a very pretty book, one which will be appreciated by any needleworker.