Kids' Embroidery: Projects for Kids of All Ages

by Kristin Nicholas, John Gruen (Photographer)

An introductory embroidery guide for kids includes fifteen easy-to-follow projects, supported by full color photographs, step-by-step instructions and educational sidebars about the history of embroidery around the world.

Genres: Crafts, Nonfiction, Sewing

144 pages, Hardcover

First published September 14, 2004

About the author

KRISTIN NICHOLAS is a knitwear and stitchery designer who lives in western Massachusetts on a working sheep farm with her husband and daughter and 400 sheep, three border collies, two great pyrenees guard dogs, ten cats, thirty chickens, one guard donkey, and one guard llama.

Kristin learned to knit and sew when she was nine years old. Following her passion for creating, she received a BS from University of Delaware and MS from Colorado State University in Textiles and Clothing. She has worked in the American needlework industry for over 25 years as a creative director and a stitchery and knitwear designer. She is the author of 8 books including Color By Kristin, Kristin Knits, Colorful Stitchery, Kids Embroidery, Knitting for Baby, and more. Her specialty is working with color and she is known as a color expert within the needlework industry. She has her own line of yarn named “Julia”, after her daughter, which is distributed throughout North America by Nashua Handknits (a Division of Westminster Fibers). She has been also been featured as a knitting expert on PBS's Knit and Crochet Now for the three seasons.

Kristin's home and work have been featured in Country Home, Country Living, Vogue Knitting, Interweave Knits, Knitters Magazine, and many other national publications.

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Reviews

[Willow · Rating 4 out of 5]

I got this from the library and skimmed it, to see if it'll be a good one to purchase for school use. This one had lots of good step-by-step directions for learning the skills, and neat projects to do. I'm putting this on my wish list and planning to obtain a copy to work through with the kids.

[Cindi · Rating 4 out of 5]

My kids and I have been learning a little embroidery together. It's been great fun. I haven't worked my way through everything in the book, just dabbling here and there (I made a patch for my daughter's ripped jeans from some of the stitches I learned). We are planning to try several of the projects. My daughter is going to use the idea at the end of the book and have an embroidery party with her friends!

[Jessica · Rating 4 out of 5]

We're getting hours of good child-diverted-from-Mom-who-is-trying-to-cook/clean/read-time. Jonah is six, and once I set him up he can follow instructions and pictures from the book to figure a lot out.

[Leah · Rating 5 out of 5]

Kids' Embroidery: Projects for Kids of All Ages by Kristin Nicholas (2004)

[Molly · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great instructions, great projects, and I like that there are photos of boys and girls doing the projects. Overall, a very good book for any beginner.

[Natalie · Rating 4 out of 5]

My eight year old and I enjoyed this book together. The projects are cute.

[Lenna · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sooooo cute! I wish I had the time and money to do all of these nifty little projects.