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.

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...

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...

"Readers are able to create their own beautiful landscapes after they learn to draw flowers, trees, and plants thanks to this helpful guide. Step-by-step instructions clearly support readers, and tracing shapes are included to give them a pattern to follow. This helps young artists build up their confidence, and the supportive tone of the text encourages them every step of the way. In addition, readers are instructed to use their own creativity to...

"New painters wanted! No experience necessary! With Lin Wellford's instruction, thousands have discovered the thrill of turning rocks into works of art. 'Rock Painting Flowers, Cottages, Houses, and Towns' offers a variety of easy projects designed to introduce basic painting techniques yet still appeal to seasoned painters. With tips on proper proportion and perspective, these projects will brighten any home or garden. Grab a brush, find a stone,...