The Needlepoint Book

THE NEEDLEPOINT BOOK offers you the most comprehensive guide to this craft available. Describing over 300 separate needlepoint stitches and containing more than 1000 illustrations, as well as all the other basic techniques of designing, doing, and finishing needlepoint works, this book will provide you with many hours of fascinating and enjoyable projects. Whether you are beginning or already advanced in needlepoint, the 303 stitches in THE NEEDLEPOINT BOOK will give you the means and the inspiration for thousands of creative designs. Each stitch is accompanied by a photograph, so that you can see how it looks on canvas, and one or more line drawings that clearly show you how to do that specific stitch. In addition, the author provides you with step-by-step instructions on how to choose your canvas, needles, and yarn, how to prepare your canvas, how to select the stitches you'll use, and how to put your design on canvas. She also discusses such elements of design as color, proportion, and balance to guide the reader in creating designs and offers a variety of original designs for those who want to start stitching immediately. When you've finished your needlepoint, the author shows you how to block and frame a picture, how to make a pillow, and how to complete such special projects as belts, scrapbooks, upholstery, and others. With over 300 stitches, 48 color pictures, 500 black-and-white photos, and 500 line drawings, THE NEEDLEPOINT BOOK is a complete guide to the craft and the only book you'll ever need to become an expert at creating exquisite works that you'll always treasure.