An essential guide to surface embroidery with 120 contemporary stitches, including left-handed stitches, and step-by-step photos. I enjoy teaching my experimental textiles and mixed media processes, but I am also thoroughly enjoying creating new work inspired by the amazing light on Loop Head and my years of developing new textile techniques.

It will show you how to manipulate embroidery stitches for myriad results, in ways that can be applied in all kinds of creative pursuits. I think it is important to know what the the materials will do before you can decide to make anything. It was great to have her staying with me during the show and it meant we could put the finishing touches to my course that I am teaching in Spain in April.

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I learned to embroider when I was a kid, when everyone was really into cross stitch (remember the '80s? It’s a book for embroiderers who love embroidery stitches of all kinds, from simple to elaborate, and who find fascination in the creative ways they can be employed. She’s been online for a long time, and of all the contemporary embroiderers out there, she is one of the most thorough and creative when it comes to manipulating the stitch.

Creative Stitches in a Contemporary Embroidery is the natural outcome of Sharon’s explorations in stitch. Beginners and experienced embroiderers will create new patterns by playing with stitches manipulating height, width, symmetry, and layers for crazy quilting and contemporary projects. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. You will work with traditional materials such as woven cloth through to more diverse surfaces such as paper-cloth, silk-paper, heat-sensitive materials, dissolvable stabilisers, hand-made felt, plastic and metal. Contemporary needlework teacher Sharon Boggon’s forward-thinking ideas will help you view hand embroidery through a vibrant new lens.