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The Art of Embroidered Flowers

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I love this book! It is so inspiring. Gilda uses supplies that most crafters/quilters have in their sewing rooms to make spectacular landscapes. Don't be afraid to try out her techniques. They are easy to follow and you'll be amazed at what you can create with some simple embroidery stitches.

The delicate beauty of the tiny flowers using handpainted fabric, dyed silk floss/thread, various threadwork and tiny cut-out fabric pieces are vividly brought to life through the quality images throughout the book. All procedures are discussed and supplemented by images to guide you to make flowers very similar to what is shown and thus providing the techniques necessary for each artist to vary the techniques in order to make your own variation of tiny embroidered flowers. The applications for this type of work is enormous and some ideas, such as handmade cards, are provided in this book. One cannot go wrong with having this book on your creative work space or reference library. I am very pleased with this book and hope to apply the ideas to my own work.

I have bought this book recently. I have already read it several times. The pictures give so much inspiration, they are stunning ! The "quilts! are quite easy to accomplish. It is'nt really a quilt book. But a book with fabric pictures embellished with a mix of embroidered flowers and small pieces of fabric. I can highly recommend this book. If you like to do work with fabric and like a little easy embroidery and futhermore find it exciting to dye the background fabric in an easy way this is the book for you. So much new inspiration. I started my first picture after inspiration from this book two days after I received the book. This is playing with fabric in a new creative way.
Monica-Spain

I have had so much fun with using this book! I hand dye and paint fabric and have found great ways to use them in making these kinds of quilts. I have been making some small quilts mixing hand embroidered French knots with machine embroidered flowers, and I have also hand painted flowers using fabric paints.

The author's instructions are easy to follow, and she has shared so many good ideas.

VERY INTERESTING USE OF MACHINE EMBROIDERY, HAND CUTTING, HAND SEWING & PAINTING. CREATES GREAT DEPTH & TEXTURE..IMPRESSIVE & FUN TO OWN.