Colour Confident Stitching

Name: Colour Confident Stitching
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9781910258651
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How to Create Beautiful Colour Palettes

By Karen Barbé

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Summary

Colour Confident Stitching by Karen Barbé is a richly illustrated guide that empowers stitchers of all levels to embrace colour with confidence. Divided into three parts—Understanding Colour, Feeling Colour, and Stitching with Colour—the book demystifies colour theory and encourages a more instinctive approach to selecting palettes. With five embroidery projects, step-by-step photography, and inspirational images, it supports readers in exploring colour creatively and building stitch confidence throughout their artistic journey.
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Ideal for embroiderers and fibre artists ranging from beginners seeking to overcome colour fears to experienced crafters wishing to deepen their colour confidence and creativity.

Choosing colours for a crafting project can be daunting and creating colour palettes is a design task in itself but textile designer Karen Barbe's explanations makes it a fun and enjoyable part of the process

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Whether you are a beginner or more experienced, any stitching project, no matter how simple, can be enhanced by a well-chosen colour palette. However, many people are nervous or even scared of colour.

Textile designer Karen Barbé regularly teaches embroidery workshops and knows first-hand the fears and frustrations of beginners—as well as accomplished crafters—when starting a new project. Karen makes choosing and creating colour palettes a fun and enjoyable part of the design process.

Colour Confident Stitching is divided into three parts: Understanding Colour; Feeling Colour; and Stitching with Colour. The first two sections guide the reader through colour theory as well as choosing and using colour more instinctively.

Stitching with Colour includes five stitching projects that will encourage the reader to explore colour and build confidence through exercise and experiment. Inspirational photographs are accompanied by stitching illustrations and step-by-step photographs for the colour choosing process as well as stitching projects.

Book Hero Magic summarised reviews for this book. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! HOW HAS THIS BEEN REVIEWED?

Praised as both a practical embroidery reference and an accessible primer on colour theory, this book is celebrated for inspiring stitchers to make more fulfilling colour choices. Reviewers commend its clear, step-by-step instructions and wealth of inspirational photography. While some note the stitching techniques may challenge beginners, the overall consensus highlights its ability to make colour selection an enjoyable and rewarding part of the sewing process.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781910258651

Publisher: Gemini Books Group Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 March 2017

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Pimpernel Press Ltd

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 203.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 128

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Arts & Culture Arts and Crafts Karen Barbé Non-Fiction

About the Author

Karen Barbe is a textile designer, embroiderer, self-taught photographer and blogger based in Santiago, Chile. With a background in retail and marketing, she currently designs her own brand of home textiles and accessories, drawing inspiration from traditional crafts, folklore, textiles, handcrafting, cheap plasticware - anything simple and unpretentious. She is also a lecturer at the School of Design of Universidad Catolica de Chile and hosts embroidery workshops in her studio in Santiago. Her work has been featured in magazines and online internationally. She is the author of Colour Confident Stitching (Pimpernel Press 2017), which has been translated into German, Spanish and Korean.