Embroidery Stitches: Quilt Savvy [Illustrated] [Spiral-bound]

Joan Waldman (Author)

Book Description

Series: Quilt Savvy | Publication Date: October 15, 2004

Joan shares over 500 patterns from her treasury of stitch combinations and shows you how to add embellishments to base stitches. Some are very basic stitches, including herringbone, stem, chevron, and buttonhole, that were used to make the lines of stitching. Then beads, buttons, lace, French knots, and straight stitches were added to the base stitch to change the look. Motifs, such as fans, circles, and butterflies, are easy to do without marking your fabric. Detailed directions are given for basic embroidery stitches, for both right- and left-hand sequence. Choose from a wide assortment of stitches to work over the seams of your crazy blocks. Your embroidery will take on a whole new dimension after you expose yourself to this panorama of patterns.

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If you love to embellish your quilts with embroidery work, you will want this handy collection of embroidery stitches. There are over 850 stitches in the book. Joan explains her grid method, which provides the perfect solution for spacing your stitches evenly. Learn how to read a stitch sequence and combine the basic stitches to create an endless variety of decorative embroidery stitches. -The Applique Society

About the Author

Joan Waldman grew up on a farm near Humphrey, Nebraska. Since the mid-1970s, she has been a quiltmaker, designer, and teacher. She is co-founder of the Calico Quilt Club of Columbus, Nebraska, and member of the Country Piecemakers Quilt Guild of Norfolk, Nebraska, Nebraska State Quilt Guild, NQA, and AQS.

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 128 pages
• Publisher: American Quilter's Society (October 15, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 157432862X
• ISBN-13: 978-1574328622
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 4.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,300,328 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Resource, May 12, 2007

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Excellent compendium of embroidery stitches -- perfect for crazy quilting. Grouped nicely by variations on the foundation stitch. Stitches are "charted" on graph paper background making tracing, reproduction and resizing easy.

5.0 out of 5 stars Embroidery Stitches: Quilt Savvy, March 7, 2011

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This is the best collection of embroidery stitches and how to make them I have ever had. I hope that it will be reprinted in the near future.

4.0 out of 5 stars CHOCK FULL of ideas!, August 8, 2010

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This review is from: Embroidery Stitches: Quilt Savvy (Spiral-bound)

This book is exactly what it says it is, a treasure trove of ideas for crazy quilting. It is stitch diagrams on a graph. Nothing fancy. All are black and white and not as easy as I had hoped to follow. But this may not slow down more experienced stitchers. Also I found using strips of graph paper to stitch through in order to keep spacing even a dead loss. I'll go with a ruller and water soluble pen (TEST FIRST) everytime. But the wealth of inspiration is wonderful.