This collection includes highly coloured yet subtle work from artist and embroiderer Elian McCready which has previously only been available in kit form, as well as six new creations. The projects are worked in tent stitch and long stitch, and colour charts and photographs make the instructions easy to follow. Materials for each project are detailed and there is advice on stitching and making up.
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Elian McCready has been one of the best-selling designers for tapestry company Ehrman for many years with her rich, colourful and innovative designs of the natural world. Freely admitting to a hording tendency at home, this overflows into her designs, rarely leaving space for background, so full of fruit or flowers is the picture. Wallhangings, cushions, stools and even slippers and waistcoats are included in this collection of her designs. Peonies and hollyhocks, cockerels and cats, pansies and irises, roses and Flemish florals, pineapples and pears - all appear in the vibrant hues so synonymous with McCready's name. Gloriously presented in full colour throughout, the patterns are clearly illustrated and explained together with photographs of the finished result. An introduction to each project by McCready herself gives her thoughts on the subjects and the inspiration behind them. A short synopsis of techniques is included at the rear, again clearly illustrated and succinctly pertinent.. More aimed at experienced needlepersons, this would make a wonderful gift for lovers of McCready's designs and Ehrman tapestries. But for novices it would provide the inspiration to learn the centuries-old technique of tapestry and try the designs out for themselves. - Lucy Watson
About the Author
Elian McCready is an artist working in textile embroidery. After gaining a BA in Fine Art and photography, she discovered the medium of pictorial woven tapestry. On winning the Winston Churchill Travel Fellowship in 1985, she visited Egypt and has remained strongly influenced by its colourful free woven tapestry murals. After a period working for Kaffe Fasset, Elian became self-employed and since 1991 has designed needlepoint kits for the renowned Ehrman Kits company, establishing herself as one of their leading designers. She lives in Conwy, North Wales.
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Careful - same as hardcover of same name, diff cover,
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This is a wonderful book, but be careful. It is the same book as the hardcover that Amazon is listing as a great book to get WITH this one. They have the same title, but the cover changed with the paperback.
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My favorite book on needlepoint,
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I have books by Graham Rust, Candace Bahouth, Kaffe Fassett, Beth Russell among other notable designers in needlepoint and this is the only one that I want to do every design in the book. The charts are easy to read, with symbols in addition to being colored. I wouldn't recommend it for a true beginner, but it is a fantastic book.
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For those who want designs for flowers this book has many wonderful ideas to follow, I am sure that I will be using it often.
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Late in the 13th century, the Italian traveller Marco Polo visited the court of Kublai Khan in Xanadu, China and was overcome by the splendour of the gardens, though Europeans refused to believe his reports. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
half cross stitch, tapestry wool, tent stitch, mount board, long stitch, backing fabric, bias strip, double thread, dusty pink Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Late in the 13th century, the Italian traveller Marco Polo visited the court of Kublai Khan in Xanadu, China and was overcome by the splendour of the gardens, though Europeans refused to believe his reports. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
half cross stitch, tapestry wool, tent stitch, mount board, long stitch, backing fabric, bias strip, double thread, dusty pink Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Morning Glory (Lythway Large Print Series) by Pamela Street on page 127
- Woven by Hand by Ramses Wissa Wassef in Front Matter
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