Organza hoop art : embroidery techniques and projects for sheer stitching

Organza hoop art Embroidery techniques and projects for sheer stitching

Sarah Godfrey

Book - 2021

Looking for new ways to add a wow factor to your embroidery? Discover how to create fresh, eye-catching embroidery designs on sheer fabric with Organza Hoop Art! Using sheer fabric and a few adjustments to basic embroidery techniques, author Sarah Godfrey demonstrates an approach that is perfect for both beginners and experienced stitchers. Anyone can accomplish this exciting embroidery style without feeling intimidated! Features 12 skill-building projects for organza designs that cast unique, dynamic shadows depending on the angle of the light. Beginner-friendly techniques make working on sheer fabric easy and approachable for any level of embroiderer. Includes step-by-step instructions, coordinating photos, and tips on designing your own... embroidery and working with sheer fabric and full-size patterns for most designs, including poppies, a sunflower, a coffee cup, a flowerpot, and more"--

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Subjects
Embroidery.
Handicraft.
Sewing.
Textile crafts.
Handbooks and manuals.
Patterns (Instructional works)
Instructional and educational works.
Genres
Handbooks and manuals
Patterns (Instructional works)
Instructional and educational works
Published
Mount Joy, PA : Landauer Publishing [2021]
Language
English
Main Author
Sarah Godfrey (author)
Physical Description
95 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
ISBN
9781947163614
  • Tools and materials
  • Stitch glossary
  • Projects: Ladybugs ; Goldfish ; Toadstools ; Coffee cup ; Pink poppies ; Iris ; Sunflower ; Flowering prickly pear cactus ; Blue flower lady ; Celestial garden ; Flower lady flowerpot ; Floral wreath.
Review by Booklist Review

Any fabric, as Canadian crafter Godfrey so aptly demonstrates, whether tough-wearing denim or fragile, sheer organza, can be a great home for embroidery. Rather than embellishing items, Godfrey's concept in these dozen projects is to create stitched pictures on organza with a floating, ethereal quality framed by a hoop. First, she lists the required tools, materials, and techniques--in this case, ten stitches with start-to-finish explanation and photographs. One of the most helpful sections/sidebars offers her tips to succeed on sheer fabric, from practice first to work over a bright, solid surface. Projects themselves are rather pedestrian, relying on a lot of satin stitches to fill in blocks of color and on very simple design outlines--ladybugs, iris, and floral wreath, for example-- that don't allow for embroidery intricacies. Enlarging measures aren't provided with pattern templates. Appended with a thread-color conversion chart for Anchor and DMC..

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.

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