Freestyle Embroidery on Wool - Karin Derland

Freestyle Embroidery on Wool by Karin Derland is a practical guide to creating colourful, expressive designs using appliqué and embroidery on felted wool fabric. This paperback edition sets out a clear approach to developing your own embroidered wool appliqué work.

Key details

• Author: Karin Derland
• Subtitle: How to create your own embroidered wool appliqué designs
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 144
• Publisher: Pimpernel Press
• Publication date: 25 June 2020

Synopsis

Using her own imaginative embroidery as a starting point, Karin Derland explains how to begin designing and building appliqué and embroidery on felted wool. Guidance covers colour selection, adding ribbons, mirrors and other accessories, and making cardboard templates for appliqué shapes.

Practical advice continues with ways to combine different threads and stitches for the strongest visual effect, supported by sketches, diagrams and detailed photographs of embroidered pillows, cushions, cases and other items. Alongside step-by-step instruction, the book includes a rich selection of inspirational images informed by both Swedish and Indian traditions, offering a useful reference library for developing your own ideas.

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