English Countryside Needlepoint (A Treasury of Over 50 Original Needlepoint Designs)

By Stafford Whiteaker

Book Overview

Contents include the art of needlepoint, stitch techniques, and a country alphabet. The book is filled with color photographs and detailed diagrams. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345357299
• ISBN13: 9780345357298
• Release Date: November 1988
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.51 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Stafford Whiteaker, author

'English Countryside Needlepoint' offers over 50 exquisite needlework designs. Full color, original patterns of fruit and flowers, plants and trees, rich floral harvests along country roads, in fields and villages, are interspersed with charming tales, songs and poems of country life.There are patterns for Roses, Violas, Flowers, Butterflies and Pot Marigolds, a Unicorn, a Tudor Rose and Victorian Jewels, also Ripe Cherries Crap Apples and Sloes. You will find full color photographs and 20 inspirational paintings mixed in among the patterns for Garlands, Pomanders, Easter Flowers, Snowflakes and Ice Flowers.Instructions and suggested stitches are included and all charts are in full color. The designs can be used in any type of stitchery where you would use a charted design.'English Countryside Needlepoint' is a book you will use and cherish forever. Is is a glorious summation of all that is heavenly about the English countryside. It would make a wonderful gift for someone special or a wonderful treat for yourself.