Mindful Embroidery: Stitch Your Way to Relaxation with Charming European Street Scenes

by Charles Henry, Elin Petronella

Embroider Your Stress Away Escape the chaos of everyday life by embroidering yourself a romantic and tranquil getaway. Allow Charles Henry and Elin Petronella to whisk you away to the calming villas of the French countryside. Discover the hidden gems of Paris, stroll down the colorful tiled streets of Lisbon or float along the canals of Venice. Let go of your worries stitch by stitch through these 20 delightful European scenescapes inspired by Charles and Elin’s favorite places throughout Europe. Beginners can confidently complete any design in this book using five common and simple embroidery stitches. As leaders in the modern hand embroidery movement, Charles and Elin invite you to let go of perfectionism and instead slow down, unwind and enjoy the meditative process of creating something gorgeous one stitch, and breath, at a time.For a printable download of the pattern design templates, please email Charles at charles@charlesandelin.com.

Genres: Nonfiction, Art, Crafts

233 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 1, 2020

Reviews

[Johannah Gage · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really Excellent! This is not a beginner stitching book, and I love that. How many dozens of books need the basic materials and such as the first half of the book?? Only basic stitches are required in these designs -- back stitch, split stitch, French knots. This book jumps right into the patterns with step-by-step instructions that still inspire the stitcher to be creative. I love it!! The only problem is choosing a pattern to start on! Charles & Elin also have an excellent YouTube channel, Instagram, and an online academy, for those looking for additional help, inspiration, and a monthly pattern club.

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Kindle & Paperback

[Robin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lovely line drawings from France, Italy, Spain, Denmark, Sweden, and London, enhanced with trees, flowers, etc., for stitching with five basic hand embroidery stitches. Clear directions throughout with some links to free video explanations. Written by spouses Elin Petronella (Swedish) and Charles Henry (French), who make the case that this is relaxing and mindful. The hardcopy book I looked at was 160 pages from my local library. Edited to note authors' backgrounds and remove one reference to another book to that book's review.

[Amberwench · Rating 5 out of 5]

The lovely product of drawing with thread. Using only a few basic stitches, you can create lovely textural art. Easily adaptable to any structure (or plants. or pets. or people!) you can turn into a line drawing.

[Spencer Jarvis · Rating 5 out of 5]

Superb.

Lovely book. Beautiful designs. If you have concerns about getting the patterns onto fabric from the kindle book you have no need to worry. Contact the authors on Instagram or via another method and they will send them to you. Cannot rate this highly enough. Love it!

[Lesia Schnur · Rating 5 out of 5]

Incredibly creative way to embroider. The authors are encouraging, too. Whether you use their patterns with DMC color codes or try your hand at architectural drawing, you will have works of art using the fewer stitches method they tout. Excellent book.

[Georgia · Rating 5 out of 5]

So many beautiful designs, can’t decide which one to start