Floral Stitches: An Illustrated Guide

by Judith Baker Montano

Flowers, gardens, and needlework go hand in hand! In this companion volume to the best-selling "Elegant Stitches," Judith Baker Montano shows you how to create floral scenes in thread, ribbon, and more. She offers a fresh collection of embroidery stitches, along with her own stitching wisdom and creative design ideas, for beautiful hand-worked pieces to enhance your home, clothing, and special gifts.

• Over 50 flower designs based on new and traditional stitches
• Judith’s tips make mixed media both incredibly creative and easy to do!
• The "Montano Color Chart" helps you choose colors with ease

Genres: Nonfiction, Crafts, Sewing, Art

176 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2000

Reviews

[Carolyn Johnson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Judith Baker Montano is an extraordinary embroiderer. But, this book could also be used by art journalists or nature sketchers because she shows how to go from flower photograph to sketch to embroidered flower. She also shows how to put embroidered flowers together to make a scene. There are quite a few stitches demonstrated in the book, too.

[Hazel Usher-Jones · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very helpful and informative with some clear diagrams and instructions. A keeper

[Camelama · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved this book. Informative text, not overly complicated and florid descriptions - just what one needs to do the stitch, but with some interesting history, suggestions, etc added on without confusion. Informative pictures - the stitch itself and the stitch in a finished piece. I originally checked this out from the library but purchased my own copy, it inspired me so much!

[penny shima glanz · Rating 4 out of 5]

First: hardcover & spiral bound. Woo hoo!
Second: The process from photograph to drawing to graph paper sketch to stitch and thread suggestions was remarkable. I felt a little disappointed by the actual samples of each flower but found overall this to be an inspiring and useful guide.

[Catherine Woodman · Rating 3 out of 5]

great collection of ideas fro crazy quilting and it is in color and on actual quilts which gives a good idea of how it will turn out

[Mckinley · Rating 3 out of 5]

Shapes of botanials in addition to how-to make stitches. Didn't love the examples.