Silk Ribbon Embroidery: A Workshop Approach for Beginners

By Helen Dafter

Designed for the beginning to intermediate embroiderer, this workshop-in-a-book presents the basic concepts of this gentle art, and puts them to immediate use in creating a lidded box, striking evening bag, garden-themed journal cover, and more. Learn to select fabrics and transfer patterns, and the best ways to use common stitches. Save hours of frustration with the help of a complete section on project problem-solving. Increasing or decreasing scale is covered, as is color and perspective, and there are great tips for deciding when to use a jump stitch or a camouflage stitch, and ideas for embellishing other crafts with silk ribbon. Additional information is provided for selecting background treatments and fabrics that can add interest to any project.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1863513671
• ISBN13: 9781863513678
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Sally Milner Publishing
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 7.3" x 10.1"

Customer Reviews

Great Starter Book

If you are wanting to learn SRE or trying to improve your technique I think this book will help you. I would have liked to have had it when I first learned. A lot of what is in the book I have learned from my own experience, so learning it when first beginning is helpful. I think this book along with the A-Z of Silk Ribbon Embroidery would be an awesome start to really take off in SRE. She covers a lot of technique and if I was to teach someone I'd use this book. The illustrations aren't the best alone but the descriptions and explanations are great.