Needlepoint: The Third Dimension

by Jo Ippolito Christensen

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0136110045
• ISBN13: 9780136110040
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.

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Synopsis

From back cover: From your first stitch to your last, Needlepoint: The Third Dimension sparks your imagination and versatility. Jo Christensen, prize-winning author and accomplished teacher of needlepoint, shows you how to design professional, personally distinctive pieces of three-dimensional stitchery. Even if you've never experimented in needlepoint before, you'll enjoy hours of fun and relaxation as you begin to realize what can be done with a needle, thread, canvas, and a little creativity. If you're a beginner, you'll see how color and line can produce optical illusions that appear three-dimensional, and how raised, "bumpy" stitches can give a new look to that same old design. You'll discover how to keep yarn free from tangles, work the design and the background in one direction, clean your needlepoint, stitch left-handed, and transfer original designs onto canvas. More advanced needlepointers will be challenged by such techniques as detached canvas, which adds depth to certain areas, such as petals of a flower, wings of a bird, or leaves. The appliqué technique will show you how to place different-sized canvases onto one background. With graphic illustrations and easy-to-read instructions, this book teaches you how to use and combine over eighty stitches to create the Black-Eyed Susan Purse, the Christmas Wreath Ornament, Intertwined Rainbows, the Black Cat, Northwest Autumn, and many other projects. This totally self-instructional book opens up a whole new world of stitchery, and shows how you can add a third dimension to your needlepoint.