Helen Philipps' Cross Stitch Garden Notebook: With Ideas for Using Charms and Buttons to Enhance Your Cross Stitch Embroidery

by Helen Philipps

Book Overview

A series of cross stitch designs that follow gardening themes; from full-size samplers to pin cushions and cards. Step-by-step instructions are combined with colour photographs, and the projects are accompanied by the author's own watercolours and collected gardening lore.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0715310135
• ISBN13: 9780715310137
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: David & Charles
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.6" x 11.3"

Customer Reviews

Cross Stitch Garden Motifs

A truly wonderful book for cross stitch lovers. The motifs are easy to stitch. The graphs are also easy to follow.

Rustic and Refreshing Motifs

For those who love both cross stitch and gardening this is the book. As I looked through it I felt like I was really in some country garden. It includes 7 chapters: the cottage garden,kitchen garden,herbal garden, formal garden,birds and bees, fruit orchard and a garden alphabet. There are lots of garden samplers,some which include recipes,an apple orchard a potting shed and many others ; all are quite charming and rustic.The hundreds of small beautiful motifs include: vegetables,seed packets, bird houses,herbs, flowers and flowerpots. The designs and projects are small , quite simple and not time consuming :pincushions,bookmarks,cards,etc... but the motifs can be used collectively to create a bigger project because they all work so well together.It also shows how the creative use of buttons,charms and beads can really liven up one's piece of art.The book has a very good layout, the little watercolor drawings on every page enhance the beauty of this book.