Stitching


Cross Stitch Antique Style Samplers
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The Techniques of Spra...
 
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Peter Collingwood
Slow Stitch: Mindful and Contemplative Textile Art
Stitchcraft: An Embroidery Book of Simple Stitches and Peculiar Patterns
Needle Lace Techniques for Hand Embroidery
Embroidered & Embellished: 85 Stitches Using Thread, Floss, Ribbon, Beads & More
Elizabethan Cross Stitch
Doodle Stitching: the motif collection
The Embroiderer's Garden
Elegant Stitches POD: An Illustrated Stitch Guide & Source Book of Inspiration
Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World
Embroidering Her Truth: Mary Queen of Scots and the Language of Power
Super Subversive Cross Stitch: 50 Fresh as F*ck Designs
Feminist Cross-Stitch: 40 Bold & Fierce Patterns
The Mr. X Stitch Guide to Cross Stitch
F.B. Meyer
[God] only undertakes that *the steps* of a good man should be ordered by the Lord. […] Not the whole pattern, but the next stitch in the canvas.
F.B. Meyer, The Secret of Guidance

Holly Black
Tatterfell sews on cunning cuffs made from the scales of pinecones around the edges of frayed sleeves. Small tears in skirts are stitched over with embroidery in the shape of leaves and pomegranates and- on one- a cavorting fox. She has stitched dozens of leather slippers for me. I will be expected to dance so fiercely that I wear through a pair every night.
Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

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