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| EMBROIDERY BOOKS by ALISON HOLT |
| SPECIAL OFFER Choose any 2 signed copies of my books for £22 (includes P&P in UK) Please contact me for P&P costs overseas MACHINE EMBROIDERED WOODLANDS By Alison Holt 'Learn how to create beautiful woodland pictures using various combinations of two simple machine stitches. Techniques and instructions are broken down into clear, colour step-by-step instructions, with many helpful photographs and a great range of inspirational pieces. Alison 'paints'with her threads on to hand-coloured backgrounds, blending her stitches and achieving stunning results. The raised effects of the embroidery produce a beautiful three-dimensional look and her clever use of perspective is effective and easily achieved. This book covers everything, including the materials required; how to compose a picture from photographs that have inspired you; painting backgrounds; and all the basic stitch techniques you need to know. Detailed instructions explain how to create realistic trees, foliage, flowers, woodland paths and much more. The book concludes with four stunning projects based on the four seasons, and throughout there are many examples of Alison's original and delightful work.This is an interesting and must-have instructional and inspirational manual for anyone interested in learning about free-motion embroidery.' Published by SEARCH PRESS @ £9.99 (plus P&P £2.75 in UK) for a signed copy click on 'where to buy' button for Paypal telephone 01691 653118 to use your credit or debit card or post a cheque made payable to A L Holt ---------0000000-------- A Beginners Guide to MACHINE EMBROIDERED FLOWERS by Alison Holt 'Alison's stunning machine embroidered flowers look so lifelike it almost seems possible to pick them off the page. This is a brilliant book for those who enjoy free-motion embroidery' - Sewing World Combining her love of gardens and flowers with her skills as an artist and a machine embroiderer, Alison Holt shows you how to create exquisite flower pictures using your sewing machine. Alison's interpretations of what she sees in nature are so detailed that many people at first mistake her embroideries for paintings or even photographs. Alison's technique is to use her sewing machine like a paintbrush to apply threads in a myriad of different colours on to a canvas of hand-painted silk. This comprehensive and colourful book covers everything from composing a picture and setting up the machine to choosing threads and silk paints and creating different effects in stitch. Each of the three step-by-step projects allow you to put all you have learnt into practice to make a stunningly effective embroidered picture, and will inspire you to transform what you see around you into your own, unique designs Published in JUNE 2006 by SEARCH PRESS @ £9.99 (plus P&P £2.75 in UK) ---------0000000-------- A Beginners Guide to MACHINE EMBROIDERED LANDSCAPES by Alison Holt Using hand-painted silk backgrounds and just two basic machine stitches Alison Holt shows how to create a stunning range of landscapes and gardens. This book shows with detailed step by step photography several projects from start to finish, it features embroideries of water gardens, floral borders,woodlands,cornfields, flowers and fruit. Published January 2002 £8.95 for a signed copy (plus P&P £2.75 in UK) --------0000000-------- |
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