Full color, highly detailed, step by step instructions for over 70 of Sue Spargo's favorite embroidery stitches.

Find endless inspiration with this photo guide to embroidery stitches. Discover the 120 hand-embroidery stitches that every embroiderer should have in their stitching arsenal, with clear, step-by-step photos you can come back to time and again! Contemporary needlework teacher Sharon Boggon’s forward-thinking ideas will help you view hand embroidery through a vibrant new lens. Beginners and seasoned embroiderers will gain the confidence to create new patterns by playing with the stitches—manipulating the height and width, making asymmetrical loops, stacking up designs, or filling multiple rows with the same stitch. With so many creative variations and the author’s gorgeous samplers, you’ll be inspired to incorporate new techniques in your own crazy quilts and modern projects. Essential guide to surface embroidery! 120 contemporary stitches, including left-hand stitches, with step-by-step photos See how tiny tweaks to each stitch can take your needlework to unexpected places Play up the possibilities with modern fill patterns, asymmetry, luscious texture, and crazy quilting

This classic book of embroidery stitch instructions shows more than 200 different stitches, many of them endangered ethnic types which have not been in print before. Many countries including France, Spain, India, Mexico, and the Orient are represented. Step-by-step diagrams and photographs of finished articles will inspire even a beginner.

'Fresh Cut' Quilt Pattern Book by Sue Spargo

Pattern book for Sue Spargo's wool quilt "Home Grown". Includes 3 bonus patterns.

For sumptuous texture and depth, nothing compares to the handwork quilts of folk-artist Sue Spargo. This treasure trove of inspiration showcases her quilts in 200 detail-rich photographs.

"Take your quilts to the next level of creativity by using the decorative stitches built into your sewing machine. Karen shows how to find multiple uses for a single stitch, how to combine stitches, and how to best use threads and stabilizers. Eleven projects serve as practice for getting to know your machine"--Provided by publisher.