Combine your passion for cross stitch with your love of gardens! Two popular pastimes come together in a beautiful new collection of designs sure to please all. Each subject--the rambling cottage garden, bountiful kitchen garden, topiary, parterres, knots, orchard, and more--features a full-size sampler, as well as smaller projects such as cards and pincushions. A range of eye-catching embellishments that add extra dimension, including charms and buttons, make these needleworks extra special. Plus: a gardener's alphabet!
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Rustic and Refreshing Motifs,
By HBeano (Cambridge, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Helen Philipps' Cross Stitch Garden Notebook: With Ideas for Using Charms and Buttons to Enhance Your Cross Stitch Embroidery (Hardcover)
For those who love both cross stitch and gardening this is the book. As I looked through it I felt like I was really in some country garden. It includes 7 chapters: the cottage garden,kitchen garden,herbal garden, formal garden,birds and bees, fruit orchard and a garden alphabet. There are lots of garden samplers,some which include recipes,an apple orchard a potting shed and many others ; all are quite charming and rustic.The hundreds of small beautiful motifs include: vegetables,seed packets, bird houses,herbs, flowers and flowerpots. The designs and projects are small , quite simple and not time consuming :pincushions,bookmarks,cards,etc... but the motifs can be used collectively to create a bigger project because they all work so well together.It also shows how the creative use of buttons,charms and beads can really liven up one's piece of art.The book has a very good layout, the little watercolor drawings on every page enhance the beauty of this book.
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This review is from: Helen Philipps' Cross Stitch Garden Notebook: With Ideas for Using Charms and Buttons to Enhance Your Cross Stitch Embroidery (Hardcover)
A truly wonderful book for cross stitch lovers. The motifs are easy to stitch. The graphs are also easy to follow.
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Unique Country Style,
By Port Wynn "Yankee" (PNW, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Helen Philipps' Cross Stitch Garden Notebook: With Ideas for Using Charms and Buttons to Enhance Your Cross Stitch Embroidery (Hardcover)
Helen Philipps has a unique flair for country style combined with contemporary, bold color mixes. She also combines mixed media in her pieces, making unusual buttons, beads and themes work to develope a unique result that is hers and hers alone. But this book focuses on gardens and is beautiful. It's simple but not simplistic. Lots of unique garden layouts and unusual samplers. There are single motifs, gift pieces, full scale pieces and designs combining multiple motifs, samplers combining structures with unusual gardens and more. This is a feast; some of Helen's best ideas. I am greatly enjoying my copy and look forward to getting her other book.
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I began using burtons in my work some years ago because I love the appearance of the shiny ceramic buttons against cross stitch and linen. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
two strands for cross stitch, count stitching paper, flowerpot buttons, matching sewing cotton, gold butterfly charm, gold bee charm, fork charm, two fabric threads, pansy buttons, stranded cottons, count linen, backstitch outlining, press your embroidery, scissors keeper, purple seed beads, press your work, complete sew, bee charms, polyester filling, butterfly charms, tapestry needle, french knots, beading needle, matching thread, use two strands Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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I began using burtons in my work some years ago because I love the appearance of the shiny ceramic buttons against cross stitch and linen. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
two strands for cross stitch, count stitching paper, flowerpot buttons, matching sewing cotton, gold butterfly charm, gold bee charm, fork charm, two fabric threads, pansy buttons, stranded cottons, count linen, backstitch outlining, press your embroidery, scissors keeper, purple seed beads, press your work, complete sew, bee charms, polyester filling, butterfly charms, tapestry needle, french knots, beading needle, matching thread, use two strands Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Debbie Cripps, Mill Hill, American Country Cross Stitch, Creative Beginnings, Heritage Stitchcraft, Caron Waterlilies New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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