I am a keen (obsessive)
knitter, but am keen to widen my crafty horizons. My intended first
step down this path has been to learn embroidery. It seems to offer
something much closer to instant gratification than knitting, where
I'm lucky to gain a few inches from an evening's work. I also have a
dream project for a lovely relative which will require some rad
stitching skills to accomplish.
Despite these
ambitions, I've never got down to it and learnt to embroider. Part
of this is because when I tried to find a book to learn from I'm
mostly saw books on how to make very complex floral patterns that I
would never have the patience to complete, and probably wouldn't want
to make in the first place. So last weekend I was very excited to
come across 'Stitched Gifts' by Jessica Marquez.
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This book is amazing!
It has all sorts of simple but effective and quirky projects that I
feel like I should be able to make up myself, but can't. Maybe after
making a couple of these for inspiration I will be able to. It's
great for a beginner such as myself, as it provides a comprehensive
list of materials you might need for projects and a clear,
illustrated stitch dictionary.
There's a lot of
exciting stuff in here, and one project in particular which I want to
make as a Christmas gift (possibly multiple times), but I think I'll
start as Jessica suggests, with a stitch sampler.
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| Materials at the ready! |
Let's see how instant
the gratification is.
