Not Your Mama's Stitching: The Cool and Creative Way to Stitch It To 'Em

by Kate Shoup

Forget the fair young maiden painstakingly embroidering pillowcases for her hope chest. Picture a liberated lass (that would be you) creating chic fashions and accessories while sipping a glass of whatever and saving the planet.  Not Your Mama's Stitching  lets you choose from more than twenty projects to make or embellish home decor items, garments, accessories, gifts, and more. It Make everyday items one-of-a-kind, or whip up your own creations from scratch. With a savvy, sassy attitude and fun, funky projects,  Not Your Mama's Stitching  will have you in stitches in no time.

Genres: Nonfiction, Crafts

269 pages, Paperback

First published April 2, 2007

About the author

The Aquent Creative Team is now the AGI Training Team from American Graphics Institute. They are the creators of the Digital Classroom book series published by Wiley, and deliver training classes through the American Graphics Institute. They are available for in-person presentations at events, seminars, or training classes."

Reviews

[Kate · Rating 4 out of 5]

Kate Shoup brings a modern, off beat sensibility to cross stitch, embroidery, and needlework with Not Your Mama's Stitching. I haven't made many of the patterns from this book, but I really liked the variety of patterns. I have some experience crafting but an almost complete lack of ability to learn physical things from written instruction, and even I could muddle my way though the instructions. It's definitely not the kind of crafting my grandma did.

[Amberwench · Rating 3 out of 5]

f you want a glossy-photo table book, keep looking. If you have a good grip on employing sarcasm and want to read real step-by-step tutorials on all the basic embroidery stitches, this is definitely the book for you!
Humor filled instructions with attainable projects, this book is a great intro to the world of subversive stitchery.

[Shaebay · Rating 3 out of 5]

When I ordered this book I expected to like it a lot more. The project ideas aren't really that fun or clever. Out of all of the patterns/project ideas (there are about 20), I only found 2 or 3 even remotely interesting/inspiring. The writing was funny enough, but not enough to save the fact that the projects were tame enough that my grandma would probably like to do them.

[Shannon · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book includes many well thought-out tutorials with refreshing new ideas about needlework for today's hip chicks. The projects are very customizable. I find it especially exciting that many of the projects use yarn that realistically suits a stitcher on a budget.

[Nancy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Got this from the library to check out tha patterns. Only one sort of appealed to me. That being said, the instructional part was pretty good. I think this would be a good book for instruction for a beginner.

[Shelley · Rating 3 out of 5]

I thought there would be more pictures but overall this is a unique way of sewing some things you would not think to do. Very detailed and informative

[Megan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great idea! I wish there were more cross stitching patterns in it.