Miniature Needlepoint Rugs for Dollhouses


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These 37 rug designs are charted for easy use on #18 canvas: Oriental, Persian, Early American, and more.




Miniature Needlepoint Carpets


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If you can't buy it -- make it yourself! Do you covet unusual miniature rugs to give your dolls' house the perfect finishing touch? They can be hard to find...and prohibitively costly. Using these basic techniques, you can stitch 25 carpets in a wide variety of styles. For each one there's a color photograph, charts, and a grade, so you'll know its exact level of difficulty.







Needlework Designs for Miniature Projects


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This all-original guide features over 60 charted designs that miniature enthusiasts and needleworkers can create at a fraction of store prices. It's easy to enhance dollhouses and any other miniature setting with rugs, pillows, quilts, bedspreads, upholstery, napkins, window treatments, chair cushions, and more. Includes complete instructions, 64 charts, and a metric conversion chart.




Miniature Embroidery for the Victorian Dolls' House


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A collection of needlework projects in miniature, featuring patchwork, canvaswork, cross stitch, surface embroidery, simulated lacework, applique, and quilting, for doll house rooms in the style of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: early and late Victorian, Edwardian, Arts and Crafts, and Art Nouveau.




Making Dolls' House Furniture


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Offers ideas for furnishing a 1900s style doll house using such items as cardboard, costume jewelry, and buttons.




Traditional Needlework in Miniature


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This book contains the story of the needle arts with lush illustrations of miniaturized designs. Top miniature needleworkers contributed 54 projects you can make and use authentically in settings spanning seven centuries.




Beginner's Guide to Miniature Embroidery


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Miniatures are fun, and anyone can do them, according to expert miniaturist Elizabeth R Anderson. Her enthusiasm and understanding of the subject have resulted in a wonderful, easy-to-follow book. Using three simple stitches, she shows how you can create your own embroidery miniatures to use as gifts or to decorate your home. Using charts and beautiful photographs, her step-by-step guide explores all the materials and techniques you will need in detail. She guides the reader through an exquisite selection of samplers, flowers, fruit, birds, butterflies, figures, animals and silhouettes in a series of clear, practical projects, which are suitable for all levels of embroiderers.




Learn to Do Hand Quilting in Just One Day


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Helping quilters master the delicate art of hand quilting, this updated reference features five new practice pieces and three of the most popular designs from the original book. Essential in a quilter's library, this reference will help beginners and more experienced quilters alike to master quilting stitches, manipulate fabric, and enhance the beauty, intricacy, or simplicity of a quilt design. This highly illustrated volume will inspire quilters with designs and techniques that will ensure each quilt is not only a treasured heirloom but also a testament to developing skills.




Miniature Embroidery for the Tudor & Stuart Dolls' House


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Miniature embroideries from the Tudor age-all richly patterned and historically correct-are a brilliant touch in period dolls' houses. From sumptuous bed hangings and elaborate screens to imaginative, skillfully produced chair covers, footstools, and cushions, the variety will amaze and inspire. Canvaswork, stumpwork, crewelwork, and blackwork are just some of the techniques employed, and instructions cover design transfers, bonding, coloring, and finishing. Among the splendid pieces: Oxburgh Bed Hangings, originally stitched by Queen Mary of Scots, with panels featuring dozens of animal, floral, fruit, and other motifs; a glittering Gold Trellis Bedcover and Pillow; a Landscape Carpet (from an original in the Victoria and Albert Museum), and decorative mirror frames, pincushions, and a Millefleurs screen.