STITCHED TEXTILES: ANIMALS

Drawing, painting and stitching animals has always fascinated textile artist Mrs Bertimus who in her inspiring and practical guide shows you how to create colourful, contemporary, animal-themed stitched textiles with a quirky mix of vintage and whimsical style. Discover how to use fabric collage, gel printing and stencil to create playful dancing mice, crafty foxes, long dachshunds, a mouse in a spotty tea cup, a lonesome bear, acrobat mice plus masks, a hare brooch, making your own printing plates, composing with sticky notes which can be removed, swapped out or combined as you design and along the way tips and instructions to identify tones, refine your collage and choose your background colours and shapes and abstract designs. All the personalities of your characters or storylines can be captured in hand and free machine embroidery which is a very forgiving technique. More often than not, a 'mistake' can be quickly patched over for an exciting result! 128 very large pages by the crafty Mrs Bertimus aka Letitia Thompson. Extra large softback, hundreds of colour illus.