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Cross Stitch Christmas - 20 beautiful designs for the festive season Synopsis
"These are beautifully delicate Christmas cross stitch designs to delight the heart and soul! If you love cross stitch, you need this book. Extremely pretty these designs from accomplished embroiderer Hélène Le Berre are light and airy, using backstitch to outline and emphasize with great skill. Split into chapters on Advent Foliage, Christmas Animals, Festive Foliage and Amazing Alphabets, there is a lovely range of designs to fit every Christmas situation. You can make beautiful cutlery pockets with fox, bunny or baby deer motifs, a reindeer photo album cover, a pine cone confectionery sachet, personalized gift labels and many more elegant embroidered Christmas items. The charts are beautifully presented, along with a comprehensive techniques section at the back of the book. Suitable for beginners to more advanced stitchers, these designs are achievable and utterly gorgeous. "
Contents: 96 pages, main contents: see photo of contents page & some of the designs: The embroideries 8 ADVENT FOLIAGE Adopt a fir tree 10 Be good 12 Those little extras 14 Liven up Christmas Eve 16 Read a Christmas story 18 Cutlery pouches for festive place settings 20 CHRISTMAS ANIMALS Create a fairytale atmosphere 22 Send Christmas cards 24 Stave off hunger pangs 26 Count the days 28 Choirs are singing 30 A cover for a festive photo album 32 FESTIVE FOLIAGE A time for giving 34 Secret Santa 36 Regional traditions 38 A candle in your window 40 Keep them going with a little bag of treats 42 Write a letter to Santa 44 A furoshiki gift wrap 46 AMAZING ALPHABETS Welcoming guests 48 Enchanting tales 50 Keep the secret 52 The elegant hellebore or Christmas Rose 54 The essential Christmas jumper 56 Personalised gift labels 58 Cross stitch patterns 60 Techniques and how to make up your embroidery projects 82 Stitches 84 Getting started 85 Equipment 86 Classic fabrics 86 Instructions for making up 88 Author: Hélène Le Berre is a talented designer who graduated from the Duperré School of Applied Arts. She has been creating her lovely embroidered designs since 2007. She loves to play with bright colours, joyful and delicate patterns and to tell a little heartwarming story through her work. Her favourite embroidery themes are flowers and stories for children..
Condition: New.
Publisher: Search Press, Paperback, 17th June 2020. ISBN: 9781782218128 PLEASE TAKE TIME TO VISIT MY SHOP VIA THE LINK ON THIS LISTING.
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