Stitch Magic

by Jan Beaney and Jean Littlejohn

Book Overview

Stitch Magic is an animated celebration of the magic of hand stitching by two internationally renowned embroiderers. Using the wide range of fabrics, threads and materials now available, Jan Beaney... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1889682047
• ISBN13: 9781889682044
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Quilters Resource
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.7" x 11.2"

Customer Reviews

wonderful

This, along with the booklets Jan Beaney and Jean Littlejohn have written are so good. The photos are wonderful, and completely inspirational. All are worth having. Anyone interested in surface design, embroidery..with an emphasis on machine work, or texture in your work should look at these. Worth looking around for.

Find a used copy if you can!

This elegant book will appeal to stitchers who want to experiment with cloth and thread as a fine art medium. The authors have organized the book as a course you can work through on your own, with exercises which really help you to loosen up and start exploring with your needle and thread. They start you out with some basic stitches with variations to play around with, then move on to cover paint and dye techniques for creating interesting background cloths. Next they explore more complex stitch ideas, design integration, and combining hand and machine stitching. Finally they investigate mark making and image making as a fine art process. Even without the exercises and the instructive text, the photographs themselves are worth the price of this book. There are beautiful full-color photos on almost every page. The book was published in 1999, and the work is contemporary enough to still be visually interesting. It's a shame this book did not stay in print, since it is one of the best contemporary stitching books I've seen.