500 Flower & Animal Cross Stitch Designs


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Mix and match motifs, borders, and alphabets to create your own unique cross-stitch projects. Among these 500 full-color chatted designs are beautiful garden blooms, delicate wildflowers, and a menagerie of animals, including insects, birds, sea creatures, circus friends, jungle and forest denizens, and even dinosaurs and unicorn. There are images to suit every taste and occasion. Guidance is given in planning your project, choosing equipment and materials, stitching techniques, and presenting the finished work. Throughout, the collection suggests different ways to use particular designs. Embellish clothing, towels, or table linens. Stitch exquisite samplers, greeting cards, and bookmarks. Make unique and wonderful gifts, inducting a gardener's apron, curtain tiebacks, cushions, jam-jar covets, and trinket boxes. With so many Fantastic flower and animal designs to choose from, there's no limit to what you can do!




101 Traditional Christmas Gifts


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From a welcoming garland for the front door to a delightful selection of stocking fillers, an ingenious advent wall hanging to sumptuous satin tree decorations, this book is a glorious collection of more than 100 Christmas craft projects for the entire family to make--and enjoy--together. Incorporating a wide range of craft techniques, some projects in this collection require nothing more than basic skills with paint, scissors and glue, so that even the youngest members of the family can join in the fun, while others employ the more intricate elements of sewing, cross stitch, crochet, knitting and decoupage. Full patterns, diagrams, and easy-to-follow instructions guide readers to celebrate their holiday season with the wondrous gift of creation!




Simple Sewn Gifts


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Indulge your creativity—and stitch twenty-five fast and easy gifts from the heart. A unique laundry bag, a retro apron, a Christmas stocking . . . Every one of these gorgeous gift ideas is simple to make, leaving you free to get creative with the embellishments. Yo-yos, appliqué, embroidery, and other stitching techniques add that essential touch of personalization and care to every project. Best of all, they also provide the perfect opportunity for you to try your hand at new decorative tricks—on a small and easy scale. Includes color photos.




55 Country Cross Stitch Charts


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55 full-color charts to cross stitch.




Christmas Cross Stitch


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Stitch through the season with hundreds of holiday projects! This book includes a wealth of over five hundred fabulous, festive cross-stitch designs to celebrate the most wonderful time of the year. Be inspired to create a variety of wonderful cross-stitch projects, ranging from beautifully detailed Christmas keepsake pictures to last-minute hand-stitched cards and tags for when time is short. With clear color charts and photographs, easy-to-follow stitching instructions, and a huge variety of motif designs, you will soon be on your way to stitching unique cross-stitch projects this Christmas.




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Inspiration in Cross Stitch


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Containing solid, technical information on everything from thread types to frames and framing techniques to the different kinds of stitches, this book includes step-by-step instructions, plus materials and thread lists, stitching charts, and patterns for finished garments. Five complete alphabets complement the projects. Over 140 color photos and drawings.




Cross Stitch for Knitwear


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