Synopses & Reviews
555 traditional patterns from the best-known, best-selling designer of cross stitch. With so many ideas for any occasion--plus full-color graphs, sumptuous photographs, and several alphabets--this glorious collection will be the only resource you'll need! Choose from six themes, including: * Celebrations--from holidays to family landmarks...they're all here! * Favorite Things--toys, sports, pets, apple pie and sundaes with a cherry on top. * Home Sweet Home--there's no place like home, adorned with beautiful stitching. * Kindred Spirits--just the thing for a personalized gift. * Love & Friendship--cross-stitch wedding designs, "Friends Forever," and "I Love You." * Mother Nature--from the birds and the bees to butterflies and bunnies. It's a feast of designs for every cross-stitcher! 128 pages (all in color), 8 1/2 x 11. NEW IN PAPERBACK.
Synopsis
It's the ultimate collection of cross-stitch designs! The best-known, bestselling designer of cross stitch serves up 555 traditional, nostalgic patterns, complete with full-color graphs and sumptuous photographs of finished products. Six categories cover: Celebrations, Favorite Things, Home Sweet Home, Kindred Spirits, Love and Friendship, and Mother Nature. After checking out the basic fabric and needle information and stitching guide, browse through a menagerie of creatures including raccoons, deer, mice, birds, and many others. Move on to gardens of blossoms and delectable vegetables, as well as old adages like "The ornaments of a home are the friends who frequent it". Then come delightful images of churns, teakettles on cast-iron stoves, angels, fish and seashells, towering trees, soaring birds, heavenly bodies -- thousands of bright designs and unique borders.
Synopsis
"Offering 555 traditional-style cross-stitch designs featuring everything from animals to sea shells, this new book by well-known designer Donna Kooler is a bargain....After a brief, but helpful, section about general stitching, Kooler presents the substance of the book: designs for just about anything you could want. Beginning with 'Flora & Fauna," we see charts and graphs for such things as deer, birds, rabbits, roses, and pansies. Next comes 'Friends & Family,"...Designs of homes, welcome signs, and household items make up...the fourth section of...'Hearth & Home.' 'Heaven & Earth' follows with...The final section, 'Happy Holidays,' includes many cheerful images...Full of bright, colorful designs...features clear, full-page color charts and a well-organized body of information..."--
Just Cross-Stitch. "A wealth of designs with full- color charts. Divided into sections including flora and fauna, friends and family, heart and soul, hearth and home, and holidays. Motifs vary in size and can be combined for samplers or borders, or used solo."--
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