![]() ![]() Delicate and Pretty!Īgain, turn to the back of the book, and there are all the diagrams, so that you can work out each sample yourself and adapt them any way you want to adapt them.īead Embroidery Stitch Samples: Motifs is the same concept as the previous book, but instead of mostly line stitching, here you’ll find individual embroidered elements – from flowers to bugs to birds to people, items, and sundries – worked up with traditional embroidery stitches and beads. ![]() I especially like the lacy stitch and bead samples in the book. I just don’t know what I’d do with it, once I made it. I always thought it would be fun to make a parasol. The book is packed with fun and colorful samples, and accented with several instances of how the various stitch samples can be put to use on clothing and made items… They include the step-by-step motion of each stitch, where to put the beads, and all kinds of little tips to ensure success with each sample. You can see the diagrams are drawn diagrams here, and they are very clear. So, again, stitched sample on the left, corresponding step-by-step samples on the right.Įach of the stitched samples has a corresponding number next to it, and these numbers in turn correspond with further diagrams in the back of the book, where the stitch samples are arranged according to types of stitches. Next to that page, you can see those very samples worked out step by step with needle and thread. First, you get a page that shows each sample (and there are some 130+ samples), stitched. The organizational concept in both books is pretty simple. They make great frames around embroidery, and many of them would make terrific edging techniques on embroidered items. And, of course, you can always take the decorative lines and bands off the “straight line” and adapt them on curves, circles, what-have-you. It concentrates primarily on decorative lines and bands worked in transitional embroidery stitches, with small seed beads added to the stitching.īesides the decorative lines and bands that take up the majority of the book, you’ll also find a cross stitch alphabet accented with beads, some filling and needle lace stitches accented with beads, a small selection of cross stitch motifs (Nordic folk motifs) accented with beads, and some individual floral motifs worked with surface stitches and beads.īut the majority of the book is devoted to decorative lines and bands, which can be used in many ways in all kinds of surface embroidery. ![]() I’ll start with the first of the two books, since it was published first.īead Embroidery Stitch Samples is an instructional and idea book for embroidering with beads. If you like embroidering with beads, if you like embroidering little things, if you like embroidering on paper for cards and such, if you like embroidering on crazy quilts, if you like embroidering samplers, if you like embroidering decorative edges, if you like embroidering… if you just like embroidering, I think you’ll like these books! They’ll inspire many an idea for embellishing with needle and thread and beads. The books are Bead Embroidery Stitch Samples and Bead Embroidery Stitch Samples: Motifs by Yasuko Endo. I’m going to review two books at once, because they’re both closely related, by the same author & publisher, and they’re both So Much Fun that they deserver never to be separated. ![]()
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