Beginner's Guide to Crewel Embroidery (Beginner's Guide to Needlecrafts)

A beautiful book that gives really good instructions, without overwhelming a beginner. Everything is doable, which gave me a confidence boost. Not that I completed everything but I gave it all a try! The projects are not contemporary, not exactly 21st century. However, their traditional, kind of throw-back, nature is very beautiful in its own way.

This slim, modest book is packed with so much easy to understand, beautifully and clearly illustrated information for those starting out in crewel embroidery. The sample patterns included are charming and provide plenty of opportunities for learning the various stitches, while making lovely things. A really useful book that I am happy to recommend to anyone wanting to try this gentle and rather addictive embroidery style.

Very Good Primer for Crewel Embroidery with progressive projects introducing new stitches with each section. I have a number of years of experience with sewing and have dabbled with embroidery on a small scale - mostly just outline type stitches. Wanting to expand into crewel work, I was looking for a book that would allow me to progress with some insight and found just that in this book. Jane's turn of a phrase is a bit quirky for an American reader - I find her charming and understood her well. She has a nice writing and teaching style and is certainly very knowledgable and talented. I'm very satisfied with the purchase of this book and believe a new "stitcher" will be able to follow and learn.

A helpful in color step by step easy explaination guide to crewel embroidery and all you need to know with regards to producing your own high quality items!!!

If you're looking for a getting-started guide for hand embroidery, this is a great book. It introduces 3-4 stitches, then gives a project to practice. There are also a couple projects at the end, if you like the floral style. Many of the stitches have great pictures of example work, to show how the stitches can be used to generate texture.

I haven’t done crewel work in years, so I had forgotten a lot of the stitches. This book shows All the stitches I will need, in addition to having patterns to use. Beautiful color pictures too!

This book presents the basics of crewel embroidery in a very nice and easy to understand format. The projects included would make any novice extremely proud of what they've accomplished. I browse this book often, even though I haven't thought of myself as a beginner for many years now. Happy Stitching!!!

I bought this book as a refresher on stitches, etc., as I hadn't done crewel work in awhile. It was a good basic guide and also introduced me to pin frames instead of hoops and stretcher sets.

Exatamente o que esperava: técnicas de bordado bem clássico. É um bom livro. Apresenta uma didática bem interessante, pois, com o mesmo gráfico, a autora apresenta diferentes pontos, linhas e cores, transformando a mesma imagem em trabalhos completamente diferentes. Além de ensinar as técnicas, abre o olhar do leitor para as inúmeras possibilidades que o bordado proporciona.

Livro excelente, com explicações detalhadas sobre o modo como executar crewelwork e alguns motivos para copiar e executar.

Excellent book describing Very interesting skill. A lovely craft to follow.

The book wasn't quite what I was looking for but I still found some interesting information in it. Lots of good information and lots of easy patterns to try.

This is a to the point book,enough to fill your appetite for crewl embroidery without going too much into details.The author starts from selecting fabrics,wool,needles,to tracing,transferring,embroidering,and preparing the final piece to mount!She is thorough,simple and the pictures of each step and each stitch is precise and clear.I wish there were more books like these for embroideries from around the world!