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Make this stitch dictionary your constant embroidery companion!
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The Right-Handed Embroiderer's Companion
By Yvette Stanton
The Right-Handed Embroiderer's Companion: a step-by-step stitch dictionary will help you to learn and master over 170 embroidery stitches including their variations. With clear step-by-step instructions, accompanied by diagrams showing you what to do, it is very hard to go wrong. Examples of each stitch will inspire you to use them creatively and experimentally in your embroidery. Counted thread, needlepoint and surface embroidery stitches are carefully explained, with many helpful diagrams and photos.
Because The Right-Handed Embroiderer's Companion is so easy to use and understand, you will gain the confidence you need to create beautiful works of embroidery.
Please note, if you are left-handed, we have a separate stitch dictionary just for you: The Left-Handed Embroiderer's Companion.
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The benefits of 'The Right-Handed Embroiderer's Companion'
Inside 'The Right-Handed Embroiderer's Companion'
About Yvette Stanton
Reader testimonials
Purchase 'The Right-Handed Embroiderer's Companion'
'The Right-Handed Embroiderer's Companion' at a glance
The benefits of 'The Right-Handed Embroiderer's Companion'
Discover what it is like to study as if you have your own personal embroidery teacher at your side, as you learn from this helpful stitch dictionary:
- how easy it is to learn and master new stitches, with instructions that are written in a clear step-by-step format with diagrams for each step, and helpful tips and notes
- how to work surface stitches, needlepoint and counted thread stitches
- how the stitches and their variations should look and how you can make yours look the same
- how different stitches can be used creatively in your embroidery with colour, texture and different types of thread
- the bright, colourful layout and images make this a book that will appeal to both young and old stitchers alike
Inside 'The Right-Handed Embroiderer's Companion'
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The Right-Handed Embroiderer's Companion: A step-by-step stitch dictionary has 160 information-packed pages, with step-by-step instructions for over 170 embroidery stitches including their variations.
We now have a new turn-the-page preview of 'The Right-Handed Embroiderer's Companion'. This preview requires Flash and may take a little while to load, but its definitely worth a look, as you will see the contents and layout style of the book.
- Each stitch is taught in fully diagrammed, step-by-step format
- Clear diagrams to help you see exactly how to work the stitch, and concise written instructions explain each step
- Photos of each finished stitch so you can see exactly what it should look like
- Vibrant inspiration photos for each stitch to show you creative ways to use them
- Diagrams showing how left-handers work each stitch, to compare the right- and left-handed methods. This is very useful for teachers of left-handed students. (We recommend that all left-handers have a copy of The Left-Handed Embroiderer's Companion)
- Hints and tips to help you with tricky steps and techniques
- A comprehensive range of surface stitches, counted thread stitches and needlepoint stitches including: antwerp edging, armenian edging, back, basque, braid edging, breton, bonnet stitch, bullion knot, buttonhole, cable, cable chain, cable plait, cast on, ceylon, chain, chevron, chinese knot, colonial knot, coral knot, couching, cretan, cross, diamond, diamond upright, drizzle, eyelets, feather, florentine, fly, four-sided, french knot, glove, gobelin, hedebo, hem, herringbone, hollie, jessica, long and short, loop, montenegrin, mountmellick, mountmellick thorn, needleweaving bars, norwich, nun, palestrina knot, parma, pearl, pin, plaited braid, queen, raised fishbone, rhodes, rope, rosette, running, satin, scottish, scroll, seed, sheaf filling, shisha, smockers' knot, split, spider web, stem, tent, thorn, trellis, turkey work, vandyke, wheat ear, woven picots... and many variations of these embroidery stitches!
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With our clear step-by-step instructions you will quickly feel that you can master almost any embroidery stitch. No more searching for stitch diagrams on the internet or in books, as it is all right here in The Right-Handed Embroiderer's Companion. This is a stitch dictionary that makes it easy to learn all you need to know, and shows you exactly how to do it.
About Yvette Stanton
Yvette Stanton is a respected Australian embroidery teacher and award-winning needlewoman. Following the success of The Left-Handed Embroiderer's Companion, she learned that there was a new condition called 'left-handed envy'! She found that right-handers were jealous of the clear instructions and inspiring nature of the left-handed stitch dictionary. This book is to redress the imbalance and keep right-handers happy!
"I had been thinking of doing a stitch dictionary for some time, as through all my classes and previous books, I had quite a collection of stitches already written out in step-by-step style, with all their diagrams. It made sense to do the left-handed stitch dictionary first, as there was a huge gap in the market for a comprehensive left-handed stitch dictionary. But it was so popular that right-handers wanted their own version of that stitch dictionary. So here it is!"
Yvette has previously written books on Hardanger embroidery, merezhka embroidery and Mountmellick embroidery. Yvette teaches at shops around Australia, and is an accredited tutor with the NSW Embroiderers Guild.
Reader testimonials
Reader reviews of The Left-Handed Embroiderer's Companion (twin to The Right-Handed Embroiderer's Companion) are flooding in from around the world. Following are some of the comments from both left-handed and right-handed embroiderers:
The LH Stitch Dictionary is proving to be so very helpful. I refer to it almost daily, and am always impressed with the precision of your instructions. They are so clearly stated that it is impossible to stitch incorrectly. It is an invaluable reference book and am so delighted to have it nearby. SB, France
Congratulations on your latest book! I bought it for my Mom who wants to know where you've been all her life. She keeps it beside her on the couch where she is stitching a Victoria Sampler piece and said to thank you VERY much. JR, Canada
Now here's a five star author and embroiderer, all of whose books you should own. I do. This is the first time in my life I have wanted to be left-handed. Unfortunately, I'm not. As right handers we can have fun flipping the instructions. This is a superb dictionary for all embroiderers, so don't miss out. As with all Yvette's books it has superb attention to detail. This has just become my number one embroidery book. This is a book you can judge by its cover, it won't let you down. Karen Platt, UK
Just thought I'd let you know I found your LH Companion at the London Bead Company and bought it. Its wonderful and just looking at the instructions I could follow them straight away. Unless you are left-handed its difficult to explain to folk just how hard it can be to have to constantly turn everything round in your mind, for someone who is bordering dyslexic its a nightmare. RM, England
My copy arrived yesterday. Am so thrilled to have pictures that show the needle pointing to the right (and not the left). The illustrations demonstrating finger positions etc. will be most helpful. Thank you. YD, QLD Australia
Mary Corbet of Needle'nThread has written an extensive review of The Left-Handed Embroiderer's Companion. You can read it at her blog: http://www.needlenthread.com/2009/12/left-handed-embroiderers-companion-by.html.
It is an amazing stitch dictionary that I know left-handers especially will appreciate because they've waited a long time for a book written for them with this kind of quality content. But it is not limited to left-handed stitchers. As a right-handed stitcher, I am certain this is going to be one of my "go to" reference books for stitches. Furthermore, as a teacher, I know it will be invaluable in the classroom and at workshops for instructing lefties!
Purchase 'The Right-Handed Embroiderer's Companion'
Order your copy of this fabulous stitch dictionary by Yvette Stanton, today. With such clear step-by-step instructions, you'll be mastering new stitches in no time. And that stitch that you've always had problems with? This stitch dictionary will help you to sort out all those problems! It should be every (right-handed) embroiderer's constant companion.
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'The Right-Handed Embroiderer's Companion' at a glance
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The Right-Handed Embroiderer's Companion: A step-by-step stitch dictionary by Yvette Stanton.
- 160 pages
- Paperback
- 195 x 275 mm / 7 5/8 x 10 7/8 in
- 170+ embroidery stitches shown step-by-step
- over 1000 full colour photos and diagrams
- Published August 2010
- ISBN 978-0-9757677-4-0
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The Right-Handed Embroiderer's Companion: A step-by-step stitch dictionary is the must-have stitching companion. You will refer to it again and again.
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