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

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 Brian Haggard, who first set my heart on fire with Crazy-Quilted Memories: Beautiful Embroidery Brings Your Family Portraits to Life? Did he really want to tease me and leave me alone while holding another design book with the last two-thirds to give 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, texture and fabric arrangement filled with buttons, edging, aged gold tones, ripped sheer edging, 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 typical trappings that embody the crazy memory quilt. The first part of the book contains a warm, friendly background about the author taking care of himself. , are grateful and committed to preserving hand sewing in our age 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 is very good at it. 2) For Writing: Haggard and C&T Publishing permit photocopying 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.