"From the best-selling Creative … and Beyond series, Creative Embroidery & Beyond presents beautiful embroidery projects and instruction for all skill levels from three trending artists." --

"Amee K. Sweet-McNamara introduces readers to an old material in a new way, where they can practice new embroidery skills, and create gorgeous, unique pieces of jewelry. [The] secret ingredient is soutache, a type of colorful cord that Sweet-McNamara winds, binds, and stitches into place. The first section of this book focuses on learning the techniques, while the second section teaches readers how to incorporate these techniques into beautiful soutache projects. With photos and illustrations taking the reader every step of the way, beginners will start with small earrings and work up to necklaces, cuffs, and pendants, while experienced stitchers can dive right into the new design ideas."--www.Amazon.com.

"100 Essential Embroidery Stitches is a handy directory of 100 need-to-know freestyle embroidery stitches to refresh or add to your embroidery skills. Embroidery is like 'painting' with thread and this book gives you all the techniques you will need to create your own works of art. Whether you are new to embroidery and want to widen your repertoire or just need a comprehensive reference guide to look things up, you'll find everything you need to improve your embroidery skills and feel confident tackling a wide range of projects"--

"Bead embroidery features multiple layers, a strong sense of dimension and a gorgeous and resplendent look. The author of this book boldly incorporates the techniques of French-style hook needle and those of Chinese needle embroidery to portray Chinese landscape and bird-and-flower painting, folk arts and crafts, visual images of ancient poetry, myths and legends, as well as auspicious connotations, thus combining the romantic and free-spirited European style with the classic elegance of the oriental style and drawing inspirations from the vast expanse of Chinese culture to inject rich implications and meanings into these projects. This book introduces 26 basic stitches that will help lay a foundation for the completion of an embroidery project. In projects for beginners, 18 small items are included, with detailed step-by-step instructions and illustrations. The advanced projects incorporate a variety of techniques to create embroidery items that will broaden your vision and stimulate your imagination. You can apply a variety of fabrics as you please and experiment without fear what comes to your mind. Enjoy the fun while exploring the process of bead embroidery." -- Dust jacket.

A visual encyclopedia of stitches, Big Book of Embroidery is the essential reference guide for both beginner and experienced embroiderers. Packed with 250 popular embroidery stitches and techniques for looped stitches, straight stitches, knotted stitches, cross-stitch, long stitches, and more, this book will help you to understand the basics while you learn to embroider various details and designs within those fundamental methods. After learning the basic stitches and their variations, move on to the more advanced woven, couching, smocking, and needlework stitches, plus many more!

"Maggie Singer owns The Seven Year Stitch, an embroidery specialty shop in the small town of Tallulah Falls, Oregon. Trouble strikes when an elderly woman brings an antique piece of embroidery into the shop-and promptly dies of unnatural causes. Now Marcy has to stitch together clues to catch a crafty killer."--Publisher's website.