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Get it between 2025-02-20 to 2025-02-27. Additional 3 business days for provincial shipping.
Floral Spring has over 50 floral and spring theme embroidery patterns. The patterns include: a floral spring cottage, forget-me-nots, bluebells, daffodils, tulips, crocus, primroses, pansies, hyacinth, grape hyacinth, anemone, viola, violets, lilac, lavender, daisies, lily of the valley, apple blossom, birds - goldfinch, blue tit bird and robins, a diva moth, bee, butterflies - holly blue, brimstone and orange tip butterfly. And a Stitch Sampler design and lettering patterns for the words Forget-Me-Not and Spring. De-ann Black is the designer. She designed and stitched the patterns from her original artwork. The flowers and creatures are an artistic representation of real flowers and creatures. Most of the patterns use stranded cotton embroidery thread (floss), but crewelwork patterns (wool embroidery) are included - a crewelwork rabbit, crewel daffodil, crewel tulip and crewel clematis flower. The crewel wool patterns can also be stitched with cotton embroidery thread if preferred. The book contains full-size templates on single-sided pages so you can trace the patterns on to fabric ready for embroidering. The pattern instructions are at the back of the book. The patterns are ideal for hand stitching and hoop embroidery. Many of the patterns fit into standard size 5 inch, 6 inch and 10 inch hoops. The stitches and thread colours are suggestions. You can of course use your own favourite stitches and threads to sew the patterns if you prefer. Book website: The book’s website shows detailed colour photographs of some of the embroidery designs. It includes videos showing how De-ann traces her patterns on to fabric, and her methods for stitching some of the designs — with links to her YouTube channel where you can see more of her embroidery stitching methods including: satin stitch, thread painting (long & short stitch), back stitch, whipped running stitch, whipped back stitch, stem stitch, outline stitch, French knots, Colonial knots, closed fly stitch, trailing stitch, couching, split stitch, seed stitch, chain stitch, ribbed spider web stitch, whitework, goldwork and crewelwork embroidery. A link to the book’s website is included on the Pattern Instructions page. Please note: This is a book of embroidery patterns. You will need to trace the patterns on to fabric. De-ann’s method is included in a video on the book’s website. Floral Spring Embroidery Patterns is the third book in the De-ann Black Embroidery Patterns series. Book 1 - Floral Garden Embroidery Patterns. Book 2 - Christmas & Winter Embroidery Patterns. Book 3 - Floral Spring Embroidery Patterns. Book 4 - Sea Theme Embroidery Patterns. About the Author: De-ann writes fiction and non-fiction books with over 100 titles published. Take a look at De-ann’s Amazon Author page to see her latest sewing & craft theme romance books including: Knitting Shop by the Sea, Embroidery Cottage, Knitting Cottage, Colouring Book Cottage, The Sewing Shop, The Sewing Bee, The Quilting Bee and The Dressmaker’s Cottage. About the Author: De-ann Black is a bestselling author, scriptwriter and former newspaper journalist. She has over 80 books published. Romance, thrillers, various fiction and non-fiction books. De-ann is also a professional artist, illustrator and designer. Fabric design, embroidery, dressmaking, sewing, knitting and fashion are part of her work. Additionally, De-ann has always been interested in fitness, and was a fitness and bodybuilding champion, 100 metre runner and mountaineer. As a former N.A.B.B.A. Miss Scotland, she had a weekly fitness show on the radio that ran for over three years. De-ann trained in Shukokai karate, boxing, kickboxing, Dayan Qigong & Jiu Jitsu. She is currently based in Scotland. Her embroidery pattern books & colouring books are available in paperback on Amazon.