Create your own garden of embroidery with the intricate, inspired designs featured in this book. Each design illustrated its creator's passion for botany, and the book features step-by-step instructions to illustrated the creation of a piece, along with snippets of information about the flowers and their origins.

This gorgeous collection will inspire all knitters and crocheters with 100 flower designs featuring simple spiraling roses, saucer-sized poppies, delicate lilacs, an assortment of vegetables, and more. All are shown full-size and in scale complete with stitched leaves and embroidered stems. Each flower has full instructions, yarn requirements, and a suggested skill level. An additional section serves as a refresher course with basic techniques and...

Paper Folded Flowers are a beautiful, effective way of embellishing gift bags and greeting cards, or creating a bouquet of blooms that will last a lifetime. Through clear step-by-step instructions, Elizabeth Moad introduces and applies simple folding techniques to create a variety of paper and card creations for any occasion. Whether you re folding floral pinwheel napkin rings for everyday use, or a garland for a party; no project is exactly the same,...

Renowned colour expert and quilt and fabric designer Kaffe Fassett explores flowers as a source of inspiration for patchwork and needlepoint in this new quilting guide and pattern collection. Along the way, he shares a behind-the-scenes look at his fascinating design process, from mood boards and "sketching" with colour swatches to planning and sewing the quilts. While the focus is on patchwork and needle-point, the design and color ideas translate...

This is more than a 'how-to' on flower painting. It is a guide encouraging artists to explore new and exciting ways to create flower paintings bursting with individuality and moving towards a contemporary and impressionist style. The book covers: Colours, shapes, patterns and textures particular to various flowers through the seasons, from fresh green foliage in the spring to rich red and gold hues in the autumn, How to incorporate flowers in both...

Walks through a variety of stitches, how to embroider individual flowers from them and how to incorporate these into an original garden motif. 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. - adapted...