If you enjoy my site you will gain real value from my book Creative Stitches for Contemporary Embroidery: Visual Guide to 120 Essential Stitches for Stunning Designs
Whether you are a beginner or a seasoned embroiderer, Creative Stitches for Contemporary Embroidery gives you techniques to encourage and develop a fresh and creative embroidery style. Discover play points in your embroidery. Explore variations in height and width, stacking stitches, or using repetitions of the same stitch to create areas of texture and shape. All these techniques and more will give you creative variations. I have included numerous demonstrations of small tweaks that create big effects. To send you down your own creative path, the book is richly illustrated with plenty of eye candy.
Where can you obtain it? Creative Stitches for Contemporary Embroidery is not self published. C&T (my publishers) are a huge publishing house that distributes world wide. You can get it from online book sellers like Booktopia (in Australia) Bookdepository, Amazon and physical places such as bookstores, quilt and needlework shops.
I am working on a landscape type wall hanging using silk ribbon flowers, many French knots, needle woven picot, and any new stitches I can find, including any 3D stitches. I bought your book of stitches and I love it – just to see what is possible with buttonhole, chain, bullion, and other lovely stitches, is inspiring. Your idea on using mesh is an interesting one. I’ve had the book since it was released and it is already well worn. Thank you!
Thanks Cassandra I am pleased you are enjoying and using the book!
Just ordered and received my copy from Book Depository. It’s beautiful! I’d been diligently compiling a folder of the stitches on TAST as I tried them out – it will be wonderful to have all your explanations and examples in book form.
Thanks Elaine I am so pleased you like it
Hi Sharon, it is not like I need jet another stitch dictionary, my shelves are full of them and there is the internet, especially your wonderful site. But I still ordered the book as soon as amazon was shipping it in my country and have it in front of me now. I follow your work since you published your first website in the 90ies and your fresh style and gernerous sharing of techniques was not the least reson why i took up embroidery as a long time hobby. So I absolutely wanted you to get money out of your book projects and ordered it out of sheer loyalty. And you know what? i already saw stuff that is new to me when just leafing through it. Thank you so much Sharon, for this book and simply for being you!
Tenar I have sent you an email – great to hear from you again and I am so pleased you like the book!
Hi Sharon, my son ordered a copy. I can’t wait to get my Christmas present and playing with stitches! Take care
wonderful I hope you enjoy it!
C’est formidable, mais à quand la sortie du livre en Français ?
En parlez-vous à votre éditeur ?
C’est dommage pour nous de ne pas pouvoir profiter de ces beautés ….
Amicalement.
At the moment Claire it is in English only.
HI Sharon, I notice you said that your 2020 hexagon challenge squares are 4″ long on the sides. Is that with or without seam allowance please.
Pauline that is without seam allowances
bonjour,
je vous suis de puis très longtemps sur le net et avec la traduction super facile de vous lire , mais un livre en anglais pas trop !
A quand la traduction en français, qu’on puisse en profiter aussi.
merci pour tout ce que vous faite j’ai beaucoup progressé grâce à vous .
amicalement
TT
Hi Therese translation into French would be up to the publisher
I have too….it told me the same date….never mind…I have so much to do at home before Christmas, it’s probably a Blessing the book won’t arrive BEFORE Christmas…..otherwise it will be “abandon the Christmas Ship” and “all aboard the lazy lounger around the pool with the new Embroidery Bible”…. dx Brisbane
Yes, I’ve placed a pre-order with Amazon and looking forward to receiving your book in the UK.
I’m looking forward to getting a copy but unfortunately won’t be in time for Christmas! I love your creativity with the stitches on the site and it will be so good to have the book for reference
This beautiful embroidery tome arrived in my (very rural Canada) mailbox today at noon hour !!!! Christmas came early. YES I opened it. Thank you for another beautifully presented, practical while O! so inspiring, working guide to amazing stitching. I will be engrossed in hours and hours of joy filled thread & needle work with your book. Sending a huge cyber hug with thanks
Thats great Becky- I hope you have loads of fun stitching from it
Hi Sharon,
I just got your second book about a week ago. Thank you for all your expertise. Been following your blog for some time now and have taken an interest in crazy quilting and find your instructions and ideas to be interesting and a source of inspiration. The templates are quite helpful in keeping my stitching straight and are easy to use. Am enjoying the process more and more as I go along.
Joy
Thanks Joy that is why this site and my books exist! Keep enjoying your stitching
Got it and love it — thanks so much for your expertise!
Sara- so pleased you like it
I have ordered 2 copies from my favorite textile supplier, one for me and one for a friend who is also an avid stitcher. I cannot wait to receive my order.
Thank you for your great tutorials on the website. I cannot wait to begin TAST 2021, I am already planning my stitch book and since I have done stitch work for more than 50 years will probably do both the beginner and advanced program. I love hand-stitch and have an incredible collection of thread and beads that are just begging to be used in a new project.
Suzi thanks – that sure is support!
I have a preorder also on Amazon and I wait for it.
I hope it is not too long a wait Jocelyne
I have a preorder on book depository but they say it isn’t published until Dec 31st. 🙁