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Doodle Stitching: Fresh & Fun Embroidery for Beginners | 
 enlarge | Author: Aimee Ray
Publisher: Lark Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  29 reviews
Sales Rank: 1869
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 8.8 x 0.4
ISBN: 1600590616
Dewey Decimal Number: 746.44041
EAN: 9781600590610
ASIN: 1600590616
Publication Date: September 1, 2007
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Product Description
Asian-inspired lampshades embellished with flying fish. Canvas sneakers decorated with pink and white swirls. A pretty pillow adorned with a sleeping bunny, sweetly curled up. All it takes to create these appealing projects—or add charming embroidered touches in no time at all—are a few simple stitches, some easy techniques, and the nearly 30 projects in this book. Begin by learning several styles for outlining, filling, decorating, and applique. Find out about floss, fancy threads, fabrics, and needles. Get the scoop on hoops, and the lowdown on transferring your very own designs onto every type of fabric. The fresh ideas, witty patterns, and clever color illustrations take stitchers from novice to accomplished in a blink of the eye!
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 Nice projects but quite few patterns May 7, 2008
This book is quite nice and the projects are all very do-able. The color combinations used are very nice and I liked Aimee's pattern style.
But my only regret is that there is very few patterns in the book and most of the project photographs are highlighted on the finished product and so the patterns don't get much focus. It would have been great if Aimee has bundled in more of her patterns at the end of the book so that we had more choices to mix and match various patterns in the same projects that she have shown.
 Great Book April 28, 2008
This book of embroidery is just very inspiring. I probably won't make all the projects in the book but I will use the designs on other stuff. I have already copied the front cover and embroideried a bird on my capris and a deer on another pair and I used the pattern from the skirt on the leg of my jeans. The designs just make you want to embroider everything. And it is easy. The only thing I have to say is that I do have some experience in embroidery and I know that even though the instructions say most of the designs in this book were done with six threads--that is not the best way to get good looking stitches. There are some good instructions in the book but you may want to look further to get your stitches looking even better. For the best satin stitches I won't use more than 3 threads. But I am still giving the book 5 stars because it has alot of patterns you can copy and is very inspiring!
Very Inspiring April 22, 2008
I just started embroidering and this book was full of beautiful and inspiring images. It gave me lots of ideas of what I could do with the things that I'm embroidering and had some great fun projects.
The only downside was the lack of iron-on transfers. Not everyone can draw the images that are displayed and having to bust out the fabric transfer paper gets old.
But overall, I would recommend this book because it gives a fresh view on embroidering and really inspired me to turn my doodles into stitches.
 Not for me April 20, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I was really excited by the other reviews this book got. It had some good ideas, basically that you can stitch anything you want using any sketch or picture and use any stitch or make up one. But hey, nothing presented here taught me anything or stimulated me creatively. I'm an advanced beginner and I prefer Sublime Stitchery for the absolute beginner, up to intermediate level. It has stencils you can iron on and the directions for embroidery stitches are great. Another good book is The Reader's Digest Complete Guide to Embroidery Stitches. With these two books you'll learn a lot and have fun doing so.
inspirational March 25, 2008
I am so glad I bought this book! I am new to sewing and have never embroidered. And this book has so many illustrations! I know a few other reviewers are upset that the designs on the cover are not in the book... but she brings you from very basic to more elaborate designs and shows you every technique and design to be able to make the doodles on the cover yourself. Easily. And whatever else you may want to dream up on your own!
Enjoy!
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