Color On Color: Elegant Designs To Stitch

by Janet Haigh

Bringing together simple techniques and beautiful natural fabrics with elegant but easy-to-work designs, this workbook offers first-time stitchers and experienced embroiderers alike a hands-on guide for injecting garments and accessories with a marvelous palette of color. Simple hand-worked embroidery, exquisite natural fabrics, and several cross-craft techniques combine to create 12 striking projects with 20 elegant and contemporary designs. The embroidery projects, each presented with step-by-step instructions and color illustrations, include a floral motif on a pair of Mexican-style espadrilles, a bull's-eye pillow created in multicolored wool appliqué, a beaded evening bag, a crazy patchwork cover for books and pillows, a heart appliqué quilt for a children's bed, traditional floral motifs for a shirt or pair of jeans, and a flame-stitch canvas pillow.

Genres: Crafts

112 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

Reviews

[Nicolle · Rating 1 out of 5]

I thought I would enjoy this book more because I prefer to sew by hand, but there really isn't anything "elegant" in this book. I found the designs to be gaudy, and not in a good kind of way. I'm not really sure who this book is for, but it's not for me.

[Lynne · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is full of a variety of unique projects. While they are not complicated, the book does assume some prior knowledge of sewing and needlework.