Pen to Thread 750+ Hand-Drawn Embroidery Designs to Inspire Your Stitches

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Resources

FOR EMBROIDERY SUPPLIES

Aurifil Westminster Fibers DMC Creative World
www.aurifil.com www.westminsterfibers.com www.dmc-usa.com/Education/Tech-
Aurifil is a manufacturer of fine sewing, http://www.westminster nique-Overviews/Embroidery.aspx
quilting, and embroidery threads. fibers.com/pdf/AnchortoDM For information about cutting skeins of
Cconversion.pdf embroidery threads, click on Getting Ready,
DMC This website offers a variety of embroidery under How to Embroider.
www.dmc.com floss and yarns. In addition, you can use it
DMC offers embroidery floss, yarns, and to find and compare threads of a particular Mary Corbet’s
other needlecraft supplies, as well as tips color across a variety of different brands. Needle ’N Thread
and tutorials. www.needlenthread.com/
FOR EMBROIDERYTIPS tips-techniques
Purl Soho + INSTRUCTION IN A WIDE VARI-
www.purlsoho.com ETY OF STITCHES materialistic
Purl Soho is a New York City store that also http://kellyfletcher.blogspot.com
has a wonderful online shop where you can The Embroidery Stitch Bible by Betty Barn- br/p/stitch-directory.html
find a wide variety of fine threads, base den. Krause Publications, 2003.
cloths, and needlework accessories.

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Resources 157

Index needles 17
paper 14
alphabets 37 pearl cotton 7–8
away waste knot 24 pen, transfer 18
pencil 18
backstitch 26
borders 38 quilter’s knot 23
quilting cotton fabric 11
canvas fabric 11
carbon transfer paper 20 ready-made objects 15–16
chain stitch 30 ruler 17
cleanliness 21 running stitch 25
color 34–35
color wheel 34 sampler, materials 12–13; stitch 6;
couching stitch 33 thread 6
creativity 34–41
crewel thread 8 sashiko thread 10
crochet thread 8–9 satin stitch 27
scissors 17
denim fabric 11 seam ripper 17
dressmaker’s chalk 18 seed stitch 31
sewing thread 9
embroidery floss 7, 8 shirting fabric 11
embroidery hoop 17, 22 skein, thread 23
split stitch 28
fabric 10–16; new 14; nontradition- stabilizer 14, 19; water-soluble 19
al 12–15; preparation 22–24; stitches 6; backstitch 26; chain 30;
recycled 14–15; size of 14–15;
stained 15; worn 15 couching 33; covering 32;
French knot 29; ripping out 32;
finishing thread 24, 29 running 25; satin 27; seed 31;
floss, embroidery 7, 8 split 28; thicken 32
frames 40 supplies, embroidery 16–20
French knot 29 synthetic fabric 11

glow-in-the-dark thread 10 tapestry thread 8–9
thimble 17
health 21 thread length 10, 22
hoop, embroidery 17, 22 threads 6–10
thread, starting and ending 23–24
interfacing 14 tissue paper 19
iron-on transfer 20 transferring motifs 18¬–20

light sources 20, 21 wool fabric 11
linen fabric 11 woven fabric 11

metallic thread 10 yarn 8–9
motifs 36; resizing 39
muslin fabric 11

158 Pen To Thread

Pen to Thread Copyright © 2015 by Sarah Watson. Acknowledgments
Manufactured in China.. All rights reserved. The patterns and
drawings in this book are for the personal use of the reader. Many thanks go out to my entire family, who are
By permission of the author and publisher, they may be either always excited and enthusiastic to hear about my
hand-traced or photocopied to make single copies, but under work. I am so lucky to have such a great support
no circumstances may they be resold or republished. It is network. To my parents, first a big hug, and also,
permissible for the purchaser to create the designs contained thanks. I never would have realized my creativ-
herein and sell them at fairs, bazaars and craft shows. No other ity if I didn’t have you two as perfect examples,
part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any
electronic or mechanical means including information storage showing me the way. And thanks especially to
and retrieval systems without permission in writing from the my husband, who supports me in every way, and
publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages never complains about fabric and thread all over
in a review. Published by Interweave, an imprint of F+W, A
Content + eCommerce Company, 10151 Carver Road, Suite 200, the house. I love you all.
Blue Ash, Ohio 45242. (800) 289-0963. First Edition.

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Distributed in Canada by Fraser Direct ABOUTTHE AUTHOR
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