Exploring CrossStitch Author:Audrey Ormrod How can you free yourself from patterns? What are the best materials? Which five approaches to cross-stitch offer the best results? How is the best embroidery achieved? When do you start designing your own patterns? What are the seven experiments that will greatly improve your designs? Scrim, canvas, silk -- h... more »ow many materials work with cross-stitch? What is free cross-stitch? How to paint silk.
Cross-stitch is a delightfully traditional and comfortable form of embroidery. This book makes it an adventure in pattern, color and texture. When the convention of 'counted threads' is abandoned, work becomes even more exciting and individual -- with free and irregular crosses and the richness of layered stitching.
Audrey Ormrod has been exploring the possibilities of cross-stitch, threads and fabric weaves for many years -- on her own and with her students. The result of her work is this book packed with ideas and experiments.