🧵 375 Embroidery Designs with Alphabets, Basic Stitches for Crazy Quilts, Clothing & Accessories: Embroidered Memories Review

I also ordered Brian's Crazy Quilted Memories after looking at it at the local library and enjoying it. There are so many examples in this book that inspire and excite. However, this book is dominated by embroidery designs, many of which could easily be done by hand without templates, and very few photos of actual completed projects. That being said, I love Brian's approach to quilting and memory stitching and his sense of color. And as he says in the book, designs are a good "starting point…

I loved and enjoyed his first book so much that I just automatically bought this one (his latest) without taking the time to read it or realizing it was NOT an instruction manual. project book. These are embroidery designs. Okay, but I bought many of these books years ago that I still have today. I saw the preview photos of the bags it contains and wanted to make these designs. These are patterns for embroidery. That's great, but damn I didn't take the time to realize that this is NOT a design…

I had a bit of a DIY panic attack while flipping through Brian Haggard's newly arrived copy of Embroidered Memories. As I perused the promising first 20 pages, I stumbled upon a shockingly long section of black and white (technically more sepia and cream) pattern drawings, 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…