Diana Lampe's Embroidery from the Garden (Milner Craft Series)
Although Lampe's third volume of embroidery designs (following Embroidered Garden Flowers, Sterling, 1994) was inspired by the flowers of South Africa, the flowers are common to gardens worldwide. Included are 50 patterns not previously published and instructions for arranging the flowers into beautiful gardens. Common embroidery stitches have been carefully chosen to re-create the true form of each flower, with each requiring a meticulous embroidering effort to reproduce. The stitch glossary reviews techniques, standard embroidery thread colors and numbers are referenced throughout, and a flower glossary offers both popular and scientific names for the flowers. Embroiderers will enjoy this lovely blending of photographs of garden flowers and their embroidered reproductions.?JYLCopyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.