Cross Stitch Christmas

20 Beautiful Designs for the Festive Season

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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These are beautifully delicate Christmas cross stitch designs to delight the heart and soul! If you love cross stitch, you need this book. Extremely pretty these designs from accomplished embroiderer Hélène Le Berre are light and airy, using backstitch to outline and emphasize with great skill.Split into chapters on Advent Foliage, Christmas Animals, Festive Foliage and Amazing Alphabets, there is a lovely range of designs to fit every Christmas situation. You can make beautiful cutlery pockets with fox, bunny or baby deer motifs, a reindeer photo album cover, a pine cone confectionery sachet, personalized gift labels and many more elegant embroidered Christmas items. The charts are beautifully presented, along with a comprehensive techniques section at the back of the book.Suitable for beginners to more advanced stitchers, these designs are achievable and utterly gorgeous.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2020-06-17
Mått216 x 280 x 7 mm
Vikt420 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor96
FörlagSearch Press Ltd
ISBN9781782218128

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The embroideries 8ADVENT FOLIAGEAdopt a fir tree 10Be good 12Those little extras 14Liven up Christmas Eve 16Read a Christmas story 18Cutlery pouches for festive place settings 20CHRISTMAS ANIMALSCreate a fairytale atmosphere 22Send Christmas cards 24Stave off hunger pangs 26Count the days 28Choirs are singing 30A cover for a festive photo album 32FESTIVE FOLIAGE A time for giving 34Secret Santa 36Regional traditions 38A candle in your window 40Keep them going with a little bag of treats 42Write a letter to Santa 44A furoshiki gift wrap 46AMAZING ALPHABETS Welcoming guests 48Enchanting tales 50Keep the secret 52The elegant hellebore or Christmas Rose 54The essential Christmas jumper 56Personalised gift labels 58Cross stitch patterns 60Techniques and how to make up your embroidery projects 82Stitches 84Getting started 85Equipment 86Classic fabrics 86Instructions for making up 88Acknowledgements 96

Cross stitch lovers will adore this book of Christmas designs.Foliage, animals and alphabets are designed to fit together to create samplers or use separately for small decorations on napkins, wall banners or bunting. I just adored the picture of the wooden box of thimbles, I feel this sets the tone for the book in general. It is traditional, warm and really makes you want for Christmas to come early.The designs are neat and simple. The colour palette is beautifully put together and each project has a story attached as well as tips from the DIY Christmas elf. The full page charts are accompanied by a thread key, and instructions to complete each project are easy to follow. The photography is beautiful, showing the delicacy and elegance in each design.This is a perfect book to give as a gift and one that will used year after year.