I've been going through books lately looking for inspiration for my tote bag band. When I first learned to stitch I only did plain cross stitch. This time when I picked it back up I decided to get over my fear of linen. One of my very first linen projects what a class piece that involved a lot of specialty stitches. Because of that I acquired several books to help me learn.
In the last week I became aware of this book by Judith Baker Montano. It's the perfect book to reference for my tote bag band's freestyle stitching! I found my copy on Amazon but I'm sure it's probably in library circulation too.
What I like most about it is that it has pictures of the actual flower and drawings with stitch suggestions on the opposite page. I like that it tells you what specialty stitches to put together to get a certain type flower too.
Here's a close up of the page with the suggestions. All the photos in this post should be clickable to make them larger.
It even has stitch diagrams! Which I find extremely helpful too.
This might just be my favorite page in the whole book! I love those drawings and the quote is ever so true. Here's what is says:
"The act of longing
for something
will always be more intense
than the requiring of it"
- Gail Goodwin
Anyway, I just had to share this with you in case it might be helpful to you too. I'm not affiliated with the author or any of that jazz. Just a happy reader who is happy to share with you all today!
I'm making progress on several things but nothing significant enough to show yet. Thanks for stopping by! I love your visits. I hope you are having a good week so far!
Until next time,
The Inspired Stitcher
6 comments:
That book looks lovely.
How did you get over your fear of linen? I have never stitched on it but I recently won a chart and she included the linen with it. It's so soft and so intimidating! I'm afraid that I will ruin it when I try to stitch on it. Any hints you can give me to get over my fear would be great!
Carrie
http://addictedtostiching.blogspot.com/
Interesting. Might have to look it up. thanks!
I just purchased this book - I really like the size, diagrams, etc.
A nice publication
It looks like a really nice book, thanks for sharing!
What a lovely book. I to love the drawings and just a great book for freestyle stitching. Great post Lisa!
love Annette
That looks like a very helpful book! I just checked and a local library has it so I'll order it through interlibrary loan soon :) Thanks for the nice review, Lisa!!
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