How to Embroider Almost Everything - Wendi Gratz

From embroidery designer Wendi Gratz, How to Embroider Almost Everything is a paperback sourcebook that brings together 500+ stitch motifs with clear, approachable tutorials. Designed to offer a fresh take on embroidery, it presents hand embroidery as a creative image-making medium, reflecting how modern stitchers use stitch to “draw with thread”.

Inside, you’ll find hundreds of motifs across a wide range of subjects, including people, animals, plants, flowers and everyday things. Alongside the motif library, the book covers essential techniques such as transferring motifs, working with needle, thread and fabric, and mastering basic stitches. Each motif is supported with a template and a colour stitch guide, making it easy to practise, adapt and build your own designs.

Key features

• 500+ stitch motifs across varied subjects
• How-tos for transferring motifs
• Guidance on working with needle, thread and fabric
• Basic stitch tutorials
• Template and colour stitch guide for each motif
• Focuses on hand embroidery

Specifications

• Author: Wendi Gratz
• Subtitle: A sourcebook of 500+ modern motifs and easy stitch tutorials - learn to draw with thread
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 128
• Publisher: Quarto
• Publication date: 22 October 2019
• Illustrations: 400 colour illustrations
• ISBN: 9781631597893

Sizing

203 x 279 mm

Rackhams Reference : 54Z5C5735A