With 116 designs to choose from, this title helps you find just the right ones to stitch for gift giving or to decorate your tree. It includes: Santas, angels, snowmen, and wreaths.
Say good-bye to plastic bags and replace them with reusable totes full of style and pizzazz. You'll love showing these off at the grocery store, farmer's market, mall, or beach. There's something for every style and taste, from flashy and whimsical to graceful and artistic. Help save the planet, one tote at a time! 13 painted totes by 12 designers: Gone Green (Annie Lang); Flower Power (Linda Gillum); Hot Chicks (Doxie Keller); Rose Trellis (Barbara Mansfield); Market Fresh (Laure Paillex); Earth Angel (Shara Reiner, CDA); Wine Time (Patricia Rawlinson); Bali Hai Calls (Diane Bunker); Dream Green (Laurie Speltz); Herb Bouquet and Holiday Trees (both by Judy Diephouse); Veggies Rule (Nancy Genetti); and Flamingo Beach (Barbara Baatz Hillman).
The elusive butterfly captures our imaginations with its beautiful colors and patterns and carefree flight. Inspired by these wondrous creatures, 11 talented decorative artists designed a variety of butterfly projects to bring this special touch of nature into your home. With complete step-by-step instructions and superb worksheets, you'll find that capturing the elusive butterfly is much easier than you may have thought. Artists include Tracy Moreau; Lynne Deptula; Donna Bush; Dorothy Harris; Diane Trierweiler; Barbara Baatz Hillman; Patricia Rawlinson; Chris Thornton-Deason; Dorothy Whisenhunt, CDA; Sherry C. Nelson, MDA, TDA; and Sandy LeFlore. Painted Butterflies (Leisure Arts #22649)
Whether you're a cat person or dog person; a fish, turtle, bird, mouse, bunny, or frog person, there's something for every pet lover in this inspiring collection of cross-stitch designs. Expanding upon the pets published in her first book of 99 Cross-Stitch Luvable Pets, Linda Gillum again captures some of the unique characteristics that make our pets special as they bring love, laughter and companionship into our lives. The adorable motifs are perfect for stitching onto shirts, bags, pillows, hand towels, wall hangings and more.
Now scrapbookers and paper crafters can revel in more than 150 ideas and techniques from the talented artists of Stamper's Warehouse in historic Danville, California. Over 20 gifted artists contributed their best ideas in this scrapbooking guide.
With more than 40 fabulous afghan patterns from master designer Donna Kooler, crocheters will grab their needles and stitch to their hearts' content. These incredible blankets come in a range of styles and colors, from sweet baby blues to bright hot pinks. Some are filled with country charm, others feature festive designs, still more are sophisticated, warm and cozy, and just right for masculine comfort. There's one for a wedding present, plus soft and gentle afghans to cuddle a child, a cool cotton throw to keep away the chill, a "take and make" design that's easily portable, and many more.
Put more fun into "fun"-ctional as you paint these 16 terrific designs. From jazzy to whimsical, artistic to elegant, quaint to contemporary, there's a tub, tin, bucket, or bin to please every painterbeginner to advanced. The 11 featured artists are Jane Allen, Trudy Beard, Donna Bush, Judy Diephouse, Annie Lang, Deb Malewski, Lauré Paillex, Shara Reiner, Laurie Speltz, Chris Thornton-Deason, and Diane Trierweiler. 16 projects: Sweets and Treats Bin, Stackable Bins for Kids, White Daisies Bin & Tub, Seashell Collection Tin, Candlelight Roses Tub, Polka Dot Beverage Tub, Chicken Patch Recipe Tin, Flower Bouquet Pockets, Bear Twins Knitting Bin, Grapevine Ice Bucket, and Trick-or-Treat Candy Tin.
Join master watercolorist Tom Jones in an exciting landscape painting adventure as he shares his passion for art and love of nature with painters of all skill levels. Learn how easy it is to replicate his vivid landscapes of tropical, desert, seaside, and mountain scenes. His clear step-by-step approach accompanied by value sketches, color worksheets, and line drawings will provide you with the know-how to create landscapes with texture and depth. 12 designs: British Columbia, Buffalo at Yellowstone, Abandoned Boathouse, Florida Lighthouse, Grand Canyon, Long Hike Up, Mountain Lake, Pumpkin Field, Savannah Marsh, Tropical Sunset, Wading Egrets, and Winter in the Smokies. Simplified Watercolor Landscapes (Leisure Arts #22659)
Designer Linda Gillum has illustrated the Bible story of Noah and the Ark in colourful cross stitch. This title helps you re-create her Noah samplers or choose from the 85 motifs to design unique samplers, embellish bibs, pillows, blankets, or linens.
There's a bib for every baby in this collection of 34 cross stitch designs by Linda Gillum. All were stitched on baby bibs with 14 count Aida inserts. Motifs include blocks, bears, trains, trucks, nursery rhymes, clowns, hearts, flowers, cats, cows, veggies, bunnies, and more!
Donna Kooler, a renowned designer of gorgeous cross-stitch projects for more than 30 years, has now come up with nine colorful sampler patterns that celebrate home, nature, holidays, and more. Each one--from the charming and playful "Pet Friends” to the lush flower-filled "Beautiful Blooms”--is showcased in a breathtaking two-page spread with a themed beauty shot of the framed piece. Several pages of patterns follow, along with suggested alternative motifs to help stitchers unleash their creativity and make the samplers their very own. A brief introductory section teaches some basic stitches, as well as how to prepare the fabric and center the design. A Main Selection of the Crafter’s Choice Book Club.
Thanks to the expert advice offered by the famous Donna Kooler Design Studio, anyone can create a beautifully detailed quilt. She answers all the questions and provides all the basics, from fabrics to more advanced techniques: What do I need to know to get started? How do I assemble a quilt? How do I appliqu� by machine? How do I make perfect corners with paper piecing? As your knowledge increases, graduate to such advanced skills as surface embroidery, making lattice-strip borders, and combining traditional quilt block motifs. Before long, you’ll be able to produce your own treasured heirloom quilt, including a traditional Nine-patch Sampler, Amish Star Box Top quilts, a Crazy Quilt stocking, and many others.
For the perfect baby's gift, take plain store-bought bibs, booties, mittens, caps, and bath towels and adorn them with geese and teddy bears. Decorate pillows with fantastic sunflower or Victorian-style patterns--and you'll love the wonderful designs for lacy table linens, jar covers, mugs, bookmarks, Christmas gifts, and more--all 333 of them exquisitely interpreted for needlework.
Provides complete instructions and color charts for making a variety of cross-stitch projects, including samplers, stuffed animals, dolls, and decorative items for the home
Wish you could fill your home with charm? Try making these fabulous projects: a rooster crooning a barnyard welcome, a loving piglet covered in pink hearts, a black cat bedecked in jack-o'-lanterns, a beautiful blueberry step stool, and dozens more of the most delightful country-style designs ever! Every pattern is here, including helpful color drawings illustrating each decorative layer, from base to shadow and highlights, to final details.
Celebrate weddings, births, holidays, friendships, families, pets, and houses with 555 designs created by the world-famous Kooler Design Studio. Cross-stitch aficionados can choose from a variety of alphabets, inspirational sayings, children’s designs, and other images—cottages, flowers, animals, antiques, and more.
Traditional, nostalgic patterns. Ideas for any occasion, full-colour graphs, sumptuous photographs of finished products, and a wide variety of alphabets.
Now any bride can afford a perfect wedding-and no one will suspect where the costs were cut. This is the book every bride-to-be will be looking to buy. Everything she will need to do and know is included in invitations to decorations, and inspiring ideas for creating the perfect ambiance.
With 116 designs to choose from, this title helps you find just the right ones to stitch for gift giving or to decorate your tree. It includes: Santas, angels, snowmen, and wreaths.
Reviews the basics of cross-stitching, features projects that emphasize specific techniques, looks at several advanced stitching methods, and includes a gallery of cross-stitch art.
This enchanting treasury of projects for showers and weddings has wonderful ideas for florals, decorations, favors, headwear, & accessories. Discover 116 pages packed with 74 fun-and-easy projects. Includes step-by-step instructions and color photos.
“More than 500 crisp and colorful cross-stitch designs [are] grouped around five major themes. Each design includes a full-color chart with stitch count and DMC floss code chart....Will be a welcome addition to Christmas crafts collections.”—Library Journal. “Delectable cross stitch motifs.”—The NeedleWorker.
For every season and forever; these charming cross stitch patterns-from Donna Kooler's celebrated design studio-never go out of style. Make a complete sampler, or choose from hundreds of adorable elements to adorn pillows, ornaments, bags, and more. Stitch winter wonders like a bear on skis or an old-fashioned sleigh. Get spring fever by embroidering flowers, fruits, birds, and butterflies. Enjoy the warmth of a 'summer daze' as sunflowers and sunbeams blossom on cloth. And there's a real fall bounty of ideas, including a cat raking up leaves, nice big pumpkins, a back-to-school salute, and a harvest moon shining on.
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