Ready, Set, Stitch: Learn to Decorate Fabrics with 20 Hot Projects [Spiral-bound]

Susie Johns (Author), Caroline Smith (Author)

Book Description

Series: Ready Set... | Publication Date: November 1, 2007

Fun, fast, and fashionable stitchery by hand and machine.Ready, Set, Stitch provides crafters with everything they need to create 20 easy projects they'll love to wear or display in their homes. The step-by-step instruction begins at the beginning, with the basic types of stitches (flat, crossed, looped and knotted) and an overview of floss, threads, needles, and notions. Readers will learn a wide variety of hand techniques -- couching, smocking, cutwork, and whitework -- and free-motion machine embroidery, too. Projects include a lacy scarf, an evening bag, pillows, placemats, a jewelry box, a decorative picture frame, and more.

 

• Ready, Set, Stitch provides readers with a sampler of techniques for embellishing fabric -- and offers them a wide range of fashionable projects to make as they learn.
• The spiral, stand-up format makes it easy for readers to follow the instructions while they work on each project.
• This book has the series characteristic features: clear written instruction and step-by-step sequences, inspiring photographs of finished objects (on models in the targeted age group), and a helpful glossary of specialty terms.

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About the Author

Susie Johns specialize in developing innovative craft projects on a variety of subjects. They have edited and contributed to many publications including Needlecraft, Essentials, and Embroidery magazines and have written books on different craft techniques, including sewing,
collage making, and embroidery. Among other books, Susie is the author of Ready, Set, Crochet (CPi) and Caroline has written So Easyà Home Sewing (St. Martin's Griffin.)

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 96 pages
• Publisher: Creative Publishing international (November 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1589233433
• ISBN-13: 978-1589233430
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,059,557 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Having studied Fine Art at the Slade School, Susie Johns worked as a magazine and partworks editor for 11 years, specialising in cookery, crafts, childcare and gardening, before going freelance in 1996.

Since then, she has written and illustrated books on a variety of creative subjects.

She has also worked for Marvel Comics, making most of the models for Art Attack magazine and has written regular features for consumer magazines such as Stitches, Let's Knit, Crafts Beautiful, Quick & Crafty, Beads & Beyond, Needlecraft, Junior, Family Circle, Practical Parenting, Practical Gardening and Embroidery (for the Embroiderers' Guild and Royal School of Needlework).

Favourite crafts include embroidery, knitting, crochet, collage and watercolour painting. And she particularly enjoys activities that involve recycling and reinventing.

Susie is a qualified teacher. She runs a weekly drawing and painting class at an Adult Education college near her home in Greenwich, South East London, and has plenty of experience running workshops in watercolours, knitting and crochet, and 3D Design. She was an 'Art of the Stitch' exhibitor in 2001.

Susie's latest books, due to be published this autumn are Knitted Flowers: Twenty to Make (Search Press) and The Felted Bag Book (New Holland). To see examples of Susie's work and to find out more about her, visit: www.susieatthecircus.typepad.com

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Embroidery, Fast and Easy to Learn, March 25, 2008

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M. Abdul-Musawwir (Fremont, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ready, Set, Stitch: Learn to Decorate Fabrics with 20 Hot Projects (Spiral-bound)

This is an excellent book. It is perfect for the beginner embroiderer. I am not an experienced embroiderer; however, I think this is a great book for both the inexperienced as well as the experienced, especially if you want to teach embroidery for a class of students or to someone on an individual basis. The book will do most of the work for you. This book is exactly as it states in the title, Ready, Set, Stitch. You open the book and WOW! The colorful photographic instructions are among the first things you see. The photographic instructions include stitch examples in two or multiple colors threads as necessary to visually describe the techniques. The techniques are described in text also. There will be little or most likely no guessing about whether or not you got the instructions right. I think this book is a great example for anyone who is planning to write/publish a How to Book. It includes some of the best aspects of planning, layout, design, photography, useful guides on instructional methods I have seen. They are not long and drawn out. Very precise, to the point and gratifying to use. The projects are beautiful and very inspiring as well. I just saw this book at a book store for $19.00. Amazon has it for a fantastic discounted price. I highly recommend this book.