Books

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 and more will give you creative variations and demonstrations of small tweaks for big effects to send you down your own creative path, all richly illustrated with plenty of eye candy.

Where can you buy my books?

Simple answer in all good bookstores or places like Amazon or Booktopia if you are in Australia. My books are published by C&T a large American publishing house that distribute world wide. In other words they are not self published ebooks but a book you can order through a book store or even your local quilting shop. Or you can buy them directly from C&T

Creative Stitches for Contemporary Embroidery Vol 2 is a second volume of stitches you can use in contemporary embroidery. It is a reference book of more than 114 surface embroidery stitches. Every stitch is clearly photographed step‑by‑step photographs so you can follow along easily and refer back whenever you need to. Inspirational stitched samplers throughout the book show how to combine stitches into rich, modern surfaces.

Both left and right‑handed stitch directions are included which means the book includes everyone regardless of dominant hand. At the start of the book I have included a visual table of contents with thumbnail images of stitches helps readers quickly find what they need.

As with the first volume Creative Stitches for Contemporary Embroidery Vol 2 focuses on a contemporary approach to embroidery while still being highly useful for traditional crazy‑quilt and surface‑embroidery projects.

Creative Stitches for Contemporary Embroidery Vol 2 is a practical reference you’ll actually use that also encourages self‑expression and “creative embroidery” rather than copying rigid patterns.

In The Visual Guide to Crazy Quilting Design: Simple Stitches, Stunning Results I show you how to use design principles to harmonise your crazy quilt blocks. It’s not complicated, and by using a few simple design guidelines, you can give your crazy quilt a coherent look and bring order to a complex pattern.

The Visual Guide to Crazy Quilting Design is not a project book as such, but a guide to how you can use design principles in your own projects, whatever they are. You don’t have to be a master embroiderer either The Visual Guide to Crazy Quilting Design: Simple Stitches, Stunning Results gives you stitch instructions to get stunning results from a few basic embroidery stitches.

Of course, I cover the basics too – such as how to piece a crazy quilt project, how to use beads, sequins and buttons to add lustre to your work as well as choosing fabrics and textures, and how to bring it all together into a delicious crazy quilt for you and your family to enjoy.