Beginner's Guide to Machine Embroidered Flowers (Beginner's Guide to Needlecrafts) - Softcover

Holt, Alison

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1844480585 ISBN 13: 9781844480586

Verlag: Search Press Ltd, 2006

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Combining her love of gardens and landscapes with her skills as an artist and a machine embroiderer, Alison Holt shows you how to create exquisite flower pictures using your sewing machine. Alison's interpretations of what she sees in nature are so detailed that many people at first mistake her embroideries for paintings or even photographs. Alison's technique is to use her sewing machine like a paintbrush to apply threads in a myriad of different colours on to a canvas of hand-painted silk. She uses two basic stitches - straight stitch and zigzag stitch - to make fine and broad 'brushstrokes', blending both to achieve stunning results.
This comprehensive and colourful book covers everything from composing a picture and setting up the machine to choosing threads and silk paints and creating different effects in stitch. Each of the three step-by-step projects allow you to put all you have learnt into practice to make a stunningly effective embroidered picture, and will inspire you to transform what you see around you into your own, unique designs.

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Alison Holt studied Fine Art, Textiles and Embroidery at Goldsmiths College, London where she experimented with many textile techniques before choosing machine embroidery as a medium. She started to explore her love of gardens and the countryside through embroidery, finding it the perfect vehicle to express the various textures and forms she finds so fascinating. She now teaches machine embroidery, silk painting and surface decoration and runs courses at her studio. She also works to commission, and exhibits her embroideries in Britain and America. Her work is sold to private collectors all over the world.Here are two videos featuring Alison Holt and the techniques she uses. You will find lots more on You Tube.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Search Press Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1844480585
• ISBN 13: 9781844480586
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 80
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