Review on 🧵 375 Embroidery Designs for Crazy Quilts, Clothing, and Accessories: Embroidered Memories with 2 Alphabets and 13 Basic Stitches by Wendy Rodriguez

I had a mild crafting panic attack flipping through a newly obtained copy of Brian Haggard's Embroidered Memories. As I scrolled through the promising first 20 pages, I stumbled across a shockingly long stretch of black and white drawings (technically more like sepia and cream), beautiful but devoid of text, color and mixed embroidery making me long and sad. swoon like I did over a freshly opened pint of Haagen-Dazs Caramel Cone Ice Cream. Will Embroidered Memories be the "end" of my romance with Brian Haggard, who first set my heart on fire with his Crazy-Quilted Memories: Beautiful embroidery brings your family portraits to life? Did he really want to tease me and leave me alone and hold in his hands another design book, the last two-thirds of which are being given away (sigh). Drawings? And then I got to the final section of Embroidered Memories, a redeeming 19 pages of Brian Haggard's curated galleries. Insanely beautiful stitching, textures and fabric montages, filled with buttons, borders, distressed gold tones, ripped spider web piping, embellished linen jacket, must-have bag, wonderfully inspired chair back with armrests sewn on… nine mannequins and similar mannequins. My favorite piece is the exemplary Playful Pixie, a crazy quilt filled with all the trappings that embody a crazy memory quilt. , thankful, and wants to support hand sewing in our time of super sewing machines and mega embroidery computers. 40 pages of drawings follow; This section begins with tips for using the Wash-Away Stitch Stabilizing Sheets used with the printer. (Available from Revain: Rinse-Off Application Sheets: printable; water-soluble; one-sided; fusible; eco-friendly). Additional information about this book: 1) Unlike Haggard's previous book, this is NOT a project-based how-to book. This is a "see what you can do" guide, and a very good one in that regard. 2) About Copywriting: Haggard and C&T Publishers permit the photocopying of any of these designs so long as they are not used for your personal monetary gain or any other commercial monetary gain. Of course, this also includes the sale of handicrafts. Excellent and worth buying.