Kategoria BISAC: Crafts & Hobbies >> Needlework - General

The Victorian woman put initials on nearly every piece of linen and clothing she owned -- everything from handkerchiefs and blouses to tablecloths, napkins, and towels. The modern needleworker may not be quite so avid about initialing everything, but initials and monograms are still attractive and popular ways of decorating common items.
This book brings you a large selection of alphabets, initials, monograms, and common names from Godey's Lady's Book and Peterson's Magazine, the most popular American women's magazines of the Victorian era. Each is available in a variety...

This book provides artists, needleworkers, and craftspeople with floral illustrations usable in a variety of ways. The full-page unified designs are complete patterns in themselves; the smaller motifs are individual spots that can be used directly or repeated and combined to create larger patterns; and there are also border elements. These designs and motifs encompass not only the strictly floral -- a variety of representative Oriental flowers such as peony, wisteria, and lotus; cherry and plum trees in full bloom; and many kinds of herbaceous plants including bamboo -- but also the...

- Sixteen meltingly adorable animals

- All the favorites, including cats, dogs, birds, bunnies, more

- Easy to make, great as gifts, toys, decorations

All together now: Awwwww In Little Felted Animals, author Marie-Noelle Horvath shows how to make the cutest little miniature animals, using just a few simple tools and some wool roving. Birds, bears, cats, dogs, mice, a fox, a sheep, a seal, and a bunny--sixteen little bundles of fluff in all. Picture all those little eyes looking up at you as if to say, -Thank you for making me - Then...

Here is an outstanding collection of 49 beautiful royalty-free floral patterns ready to provide the all-important starting point for your next needlework or craft project, whether you plan to embroider designs on a tablecloth, applique a cushion, or decorate a chair back. Simply remove the specially treated transfer pattern from the book, place it exactly where you wish it to appear on your fabric or other medium, press it with a warm iron, and the design will appear neatly in place, ready for you to begin work
Varying in size from big, bold hollyhocks and tiger lilies to smaller, more...