Creative Stitches for Contemporary Embroidery: Visual Guide to 120 Essential Stitches for Stunning Designs (Volume 1)

A photo guide to hand-embroidery stitches featuring 120 stitches with step-by-step photography. Contemporary needlework teacher Sharon Boggon presents forward-thinking approaches to hand embroidery, offering both beginners and experienced embroiderers techniques for creating new patterns by modifying stitches—adjusting height and width, creating asymmetrical loops, stacking designs, or repeating stitches across multiple rows. The guide includes left-hand stitches and demonstrates how small variations to each stitch can expand creative possibilities. It covers modern fill patterns, asymmetry, texture, and crazy quilting applications. Samplers throughout the book illustrate how to incorporate new techniques into contemporary needlework projects.