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A-Z of Embroidery Stitches 2 by Country Bumpkin Publications

A-Z of Goldwork with Silk Embroidery by Country Bumpkin Publications

Hand Embroidery for Beginners by Juby Aleyas Koll

A-Z of Whitework by Country Bumpkin Publications

Mary Corbet's Needle 'n' Thread Best Books

35 books — 2 voters

Look Stunning At Any Size by Parimita Chakravorty

Native Funk & Flash by Alexandra Jacopetti Hart

The Art of Peter Max by Charles A. Riley II

Surface embellishment and/or fashion & style

21 books — 12 voters

Crochet Projects for Christmas by Elizabeth Taylor

Homemade Christmas and Festive Decorations by Ros Badger

Christmas craft

45 books — 4 voters

The Geometry of Hand-Sewing by Natalie Chanin

The Modern Natural Dyer by Kristine Vejar

Textile Arts with a Sustainable Mindset

16 books — 2 voters

A Sentimental Education by Hannah McGregor

Death & Other Inconveniences by Lesley Crewe

Embroidery Hoops

14 books — 1 voter

Make Your Own Horse Clothing by Jean Perry

Favorite Hand Sewing Books

18 books — 4 voters

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“ The careful, embroidered stitches delineated a coil of some sort. It looked rather like a halved snail shell, but the interior was divided into dozen of intricate chambers. "Is that a nautilus?" he asked. "Close, but no. It's an ammonite." "An ammonite? What's an ammonite? Sounds like an Old Testament people overdue for smiting." "Ammonites are not a biblical people," she replied in a tone of strained forbearance. "But they have been smited." "Smote." With a snap of linen, she shot him a look. " The careful, embroidered stitches delineated a coil of some sort. It looked rather like a halved snail shell, but the interior was divided into dozen of intricate chambers. "Is that a nautilus?" he asked. "Close, but no. It's an ammonite." "An ammonite? What's an ammonite? Sounds like an Old Testament people overdue for smiting." "Ammonites are not a biblical people," she replied in a tone of strained forbearance. "But they have been smited." "Smote." With a snap of linen, she shot him a look. "Smote?" "Grammatically speaking, I think the word you want is 'smote.' " "Scientifically speaking, the word I want is 'extinct.' Ammonites are extinct. They're only known to us in fossils." "And bedsheets, apparently." "You know..." She huffed aside a lock of hair dangling in her face. "You could be helping." "But I'm so enjoying watching," he said, just to devil her. Nonetheless, he picked up the edge of the top sheet and fingered the stitching as he pulled it straight. "So you made this?" "Yes." Though judging by her tone, it hadn't been a labor of love. "My mother always insisted, from the time I was twelve years old, that I spend an hour every evening on embroidery. She had all three of us forever stitching things for our trousseaux." 'Trousseaux.' The word hit him queerly. "You brought your trousseau?" "Of course I brought my trousseau. To create the illusion of an elopement, obviously. And it made the most logical place to store Francine. All these rolls of soft fabric made for good padding." Some emotion jabbed his side, then scampered off before he could name it. Guilt, most likely. These were sheets meant to grace her marriage bed, and she was spreading them over a stained straw-tick mattress in a seedy coaching inn. "Anyhow," she went on, "so long as my mother forced me to embroider, I insisted on choosing a pattern that interested me. I've never understood why girls are always made to stitch insipid flowers and ribbons." "Well, just to hazard a guess..." Colin straightened his edge. "Perhaps that's because sleeping on a bed of flowers and ribbons sounds delightful and romantic. Whereas sharing one's bed with a primeval sea snail sounds disgusting." Her jaw firmed. "You're welcome to sleep on the floor." "Did I say disgusting? I meant enchanting. I've always wanted to go to bed with a primeval sea snail. ...more ”
― Tessa Dare, A Week to be Wicked

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“ There are days when I think there really is some huge great tapestry of a plan out there and we're all woven into it - this fabulous, complex pattern of life and death, full of recurring motifs and waves of color, and we're each one tiny thread in the weave. ...more ”
― Jane Johnson, The Tenth Gift

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