Free Motion Embroidery: Creating textile art with layered fabric & stitch

This revised and updated title is drawn from Katie Essam’s successful Layered and Stitched Pictures in The Textile Artist series.

Incorporating a new bonus project, this book showcases Katie’s free machine embroidery techniques. Her fresh, modern style uses a unique combinations of traditional techniques, and in this book she shows how to create stunning textile art inspired by the beauty in everyday objects.

With eight projects and lots of finished artworks to spark creativity, this book teaches the reader how to draw inspiration from the animals, birds, gardens, beach huts and scenes that surround us all; and use that inspiration as fuel to create gorgeous stitched pictures.

From the Publisher

Experiment and discover your own artistic voice and style!

With eight projects and lots of finished artworks to spark creativity, this book teaches the reader how to draw inspiration from the animals, birds, gardens, beach huts and scenes that surround us all; and use that inspiration as fuel to create gorgeous stitched pictures.

This revised and updated title is drawn from Katie Essam’s successful Layered and Stitched Pictures.

Incorporating an extra project, this book showcases Katie’s free machine embroidery techniques. Discover how to create stunning textile art inspired by the beauty in everyday objects.

Discover eight inspirational projects, including:

Beach Scene

This project shows how simple but effective the combination of black stitch and pattern paper can be.

Appliqué Hare

I love how elegant and majestic hares can look, their ears pricked up and alert to their surroundings. I believe this piece has captured that elegance and regal look.

Blue Tit

This project introduces paint alongside your free machine embroidery.

Home

This project shows you how to deconstruct an image from a sketch, and how to ‘cut up’ your image to make templates for each individual piece of appliqué that you would like.

This book teaches the reader how to draw inspiration from the animals, birds, gardens, beach huts and scenes that surround us all; and use that inspiration as fuel to create gorgeous stitched pictures.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Search Press (9 May 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 128 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1800920482
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1800920484
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 21.59 x 1.04 x 28.24 cm