Embroidered Country Gardens: Create beautiful hand-stitched floral designs inspired by nature

Acknowledged authors Bateman, Lorna wrote Embroidered Country Gardens: Create beautiful hand-stitched floral designs inspired by nature comprising 160 pages back in 2019. Textbook and eTextbook are published under ISBN 1782215786 and 9781782215783. Since then Embroidered Country Gardens: Create beautiful hand-stitched floral designs inspired by nature textbook was available to sell back to BooksRun online for the top buyback price of $ 3.98 or rent at the marketplace.

Learn how to embroider all the components of a country garden and then use this knowledge to create six exciting projects to keep.

Experienced embroidery teacher Lorna Bateman is passionate about teaching and about nature. This book will appeal to and inspire both beginner embroiderers as well as more accomplished students. Learn from Lorna how to create beautiful flower designs, using raised and textured stitches to recreate your own idyllic English country garden.

The book will walk you through a variety of stitches, how to embroider individual flowers from them and how to incorporate these into an original garden motif. For the nature enthusiast there is plenty to get excited about - an A-Z of English garden flowers and how to stitch them; a section on stitching common garden insects; and how to embroider iconic garden imagery such as birdbaths or garden ornaments.

There are six elaborate and practical projects to stitch: needlecase, scissorkeeper, pincushion, thimblepip, glasses case, thread storer, and these make great keepsakes as well as gifts. The book also features a full-size pattern insert for making a vintage bag in which to keep the individual projects.

Embroidered Country Gardens is peppered throughout with seeds of wisdom: invaluable hints and tips from the author to help you develop your own skills and unique style. As well as step-by-step instructions, there are also detailed photographs, outline template drawings and a fully illustrated stitch directory.