Pen To Thread: 750+ Hand-Drawn Embroidery Designs to Inspire Your Stitches!

by Sarah Watson

Overview

Picture-perfect embroidery projects!

Looking to add some inspiration to your embroidery? Look to Pen to Thread! Illustrator and fabric designer Sarah Watson has hand drawn more than 750 whimsical, imaginative motifs in one place—sheer delight for anyone who wields a needle!

From every day objects like birdcages and backpacks to sophisticated poodles, playful mermaids, and punchy pinatas, each pattern is more charming than the next. Sarah has also included embroidery and stitching basics in case you're new to this fun and addictive hobby. She offers tips on choosing color as well as a CD containing individual PDFs of all motifs and alphabets for easy resizing. Any motif can be made distinctly yours with Sarah's easy-to-follow instructions. Your finished projects will make perfect gifts—but you won't want to give them away.

With pattern chapters like School Days, In the Kitchen, The Great Outdoors, and By the Sea, there's no limit to where Pen to Thread can take you!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781620339527
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	02/23/2016
Pages:	160
Sales rank:	1,015,121
Product dimensions:	8.30(w) x 10.80(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Sarah Watson is the popular fabric designer for Cloud 9 Fabrics with thousands of yards of her fabric prints on the market today. See her work at sarahwatsonillustration.com.

Editorial Reviews

"Bring the 750+ hand-drawn motifs in this must-have collection to life with colorful embroidery." —Better Homes & Gardens Make It Yourself Magazine

"Sarah's latest triumph is the beautiful book, Pen to Thread. In it, she shares a huge array of motifs you can incorporate into your cross stitch projects. There are plenty of themes to choose from, including 'In the Garden' and 'By the Sea', but as you might expect, our favourite is 'Craft Room', with dinky jars of buttons and packets of pins." —Cross-Stitch Collection Magazine

"A tremendous resource for your stitching library." —Creative Machine Embroidery

From the Publisher

04/15/2016
Illustrator and fabric designer Watson brings her whimsical, hand-drawn designs to embroiderers in this collection of small and medium motifs. A "getting started" chapter introduces the fundamentals of embroidery, including a useful comparison of the same stitches in a number of fibers, and an overview of transfer methods. A basic stitch guide, with illustrations of stitch formation, common applications for each stitch, and close-up photos of the stitches in use on one of the motifs, follows. The heart of the book is the motifs themselves—more than 750 line drawings that can be traced directly on the surface to be embroidered or printed from the enclosed CD. There's a cute, wonky aesthetic to Watson's sketches—these aren't Jacobean themes or realistic florals—and they have a youthful, informal feel. The designs are organized by theme (e.g., craft room, by the sea, animals), which provides an easy way to mix and match. Color palettes and stitches to employ aren't specified, leaving much up to the stitcher. VERDICT Fans of Aimee Ray's "Doodle Stitching" series are a natural audience for Watson's fun, funky embroidery motifs.

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