Colourful fun embroidery : featuring 24 modern projects to bring joy and happiness to your life!

Colourful fun embroidery Featuring 24 modern projects to bring joy and happiness to your life!

Clare Albans

Book - 2020

Take time out to be creative and de-stress with these colourful, fun embroidery projects from Hello! Hooray! Ranging from things you could complete in an afternoon to others that you can take your time over, enjoy every step of the making process as you focus on feeling good through being creative. The finished makes will bring colour and joy to your home, workspace and wardrobe. The projects in this book allow you to craft your creative time by selecting makes according to timescale. Choose one of the 'crafternoon makes' if you want that sense of joy at finishing something, a 'medium makes' project for the days where you have a little more time for crafting, or for something to really take your time over you could stitc...h one of the longer 'pick me up' projects. Each project includes step-by-step instructions, beautiful photos and inspirational ideas for how to make each project your own. So take time to be creative with this colourful, feel-good craft book!

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Subjects
Embroidery.
Embroidery > Patterns.
Instructional and educational works.
Genres
Instructional and educational works
Published
Barnsley, South Yorkshire : White Owl 2020.
Language
English
Main Author
Clare Albans (author)
Other Authors
Jesse Wild (photographer)
Physical Description
136 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
ISBN
9781526753854
  • Introduction
  • The Basics
  • About the projects
  • Stitching tips
  • Transferring your designs
  • Finishing the back of a hoop
  • Chapter 1. Crafternoons
  • Good vibes hoop
  • Heart felt brooch
  • Rainbow mini hoop necklace
  • Speech bubble pincushion
  • Happy clothes labels
  • Live colourfully hoop
  • Yay mini hoop
  • Bunting cake topper
  • Chapter 2. Medium Makes
  • Yes you can banner
  • Blue skies hoop
  • Snail mail hoop
  • Double sided banner
  • Rainbow yoke
  • Keep your hopes up hoop
  • Easy peasy patches
  • Naptime crafter sweatshirt
  • Chapter 3. Pick me up Projects
  • Long player hoop
  • Clamshell patchwork hoop
  • One step at a time hoop
  • Positive patchwork
  • Take time out hoop
  • Quilting hoop clock
  • Customised denim jacket
  • Framed alphabet embroidery
  • Guides and Templates
  • Embroidery materials
  • Stitch guides
  • Templates
  • Resources
  • Suppliers
  • Useful links/end notes
  • About the author
Review by Booklist Review

Fulfilling a tall order for embroidery that generates glee, UK crafter-author Albans tries her hardest to infuse some lightness of embroidery into daily life with bright colors, perky sayings, and displayable projects. Her two dozen projects range from brooches and necklaces to banners and patchwork, each indicating the time needed to finish. Every design supports a beginning needleworker--with a very precise list of materials (e.g., exact DMC thread colors); step-by-step, well-captioned color photographs; and notes about customization ("make it yours"), ranging from thread selection to changing quotes. All use one or more of four stitches--straight, back, satin, and French knots, which are all explained in an appendix. And though some projects have a very British feel (such as buntings to top a cake), many will appeal to U.S. tastes. A stitch in time might provoke some smiles. Other appendixes include embroidery materials, embroidery stitch guide, template information, and craft suppliers (primarily in the UK).

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Hello! Hooray! blogger Albans offers 24 cheerful projects in this delightful embroidery how-to. Albans writes that she believes in dedicating time to nurturing creativity; thus, projects are arranged according to the time it takes to produce them. Most are doable in a few hours and are collected in the "Crafternoons" chapter. Among them are "Happy Clothes Labels" that read "You Look Lovely Today," speech bubble pincushions captioned "Ouch!" and rainbow necklaces. Slightly harder "Medium Makes" include a "blue skies" design that incorporates blue and white felt for the sky and clouds; banners with motivational mottos; and a felt letter tucked inside a felt envelope and stitched onto a circular piece of colorful fabric placed inside an embroidery hoop. The more involved "Pick Me Up Projects" feature three-dimensional, satin-stitched tumbling blocks, a patchwork bag with affirmations embroidered on it, and a 12" quilting-hoop clock. Crafters will find plenty of encouragement and lots of opportunities to be creative while working their way through Albans's spirited resource. (Nov.)

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