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How to Embroider Almost Every Animal

A Sourcebook of 400+ Motifs and Beginner Stitch Tutorials
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How to Embroider Almost Every Animal is a comprehensive and charming collection featuring over 400 animal-themed stitch motifs. The book offers detailed checklists, step-by-step tutorials for essential embroidery stitches, and templates that showcase animals from diverse habitats and even mythical and extinct creatures. Readers can recreate the motifs precisely or personalise them to suit their own style, making it a perfect guide for beginners and experienced embroiderers alike.
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This book is ideal for embroidery enthusiasts, craft lovers, and anyone eager to explore animal-themed needlework, from beginners seeking basic techniques to skilled stitchers looking for fresh and inspiring motifs.

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How to Embroider Almost Every Animal offers essential how-to's plus a collection of more than 400 fun, fresh motifs for a menagerie of animals and animal themes.

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How to Embroider Almost Every Animal is an inspiring, fun, and sophisticated collection of over 400 stitch motifs that offer a fresh take on animal-themed embroidery.

Get a detailed checklist of everything you'll need to embark on your animal stitching adventure, plus step-by-step tutorials for essential stitches and other techniques.

Explore more than 400 adorable stitch motifs that celebrate animals of every description and from every habitat. In addition to hundreds of fresh motifs for an amazing assortment of animals, there are animals in scenes such as pasture, forest, barnyard, jungle, and more. Plus, a field guide of motifs for mythical, extinct, and unusual animals as well as animal-themed symbols and icons.

Re-create the motifs exactly as shown using the accompanying templates and stitch guides, or give them your own creative spin by changing details and colours to suit your own style and imagination.

How to Embroider Almost Every Animal helps you take your first steps to creating beautiful stitched animals with needle and thread! Each book in the Almost Everything series offers readers a fun, comprehensive, and charmingly illustrated visual directory of ideas to inspire skill building in their creative endeavours.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781631599903

Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 March 2021

Country: United States

Imprint: Quarry Books

Illustration: 350+ color photos

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 216.0mm

Height: 279.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 120

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Applemints, a publisher based in Tokyo, Japan, is well known for their craft titles.

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