Complete Guide to Embroidery Stitches: Photographs, Diagrams, and Instructions for Over 260 Stitches

A definitive encyclopedia of more than 260 different embroidery stitches covers everything from basic techniques to advanced patterns, with information on and instruction in fabrics, needles, threads, how to follow a pattern, and different types of embroidery, along with suggestions on how to display and care for an embroidery piece. 10,000 first printing.

It is oh-so-easy and oh-so-convenient to count on Reader's Digest crafts. To count the ways: one, clear and consistent directions that anyone can translate into a professionally finished crafts item; two, color photographs that do all the work sans words, if necessary; three, sidebars filled with information that is impossible to ignore; and four, plenty of beginning background--tools, equipment, fabrics, techniques--that will allow anyone to jump in and succeed. Such are the benefits of the Complete Guide to Embroidery Stitches, more than 260 of them, each featuring procedures in words, illustrations, photographs, and a helpful hint or two. Along with the 21 different categories come robust instructions for finishing, storing, displaying, and cleaning embroidery. What else is there? Barbara Jacobs
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