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Needlepoint Stitchery by Margaret Boyles
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I know I have often mentioned Margaret Boyles many excellent book on Bargello Needlepoint. As far as I know, this is Ms. Boyles only book on regular needlepoint. This is an interesting and very forward thinking book. When it was published, in 1974, few if any other needlepoint books mentioned Decorative Stitching.

Needlepoint Stitchery discusses it, in depth, as well as putting 2 versions of the same design on it's cover. One is stitched in *plain stitch* and one is done in a variety of Decorative Stitches.

I suspect Ms. Boyles was always an innovator. There are some unique subjects here.
"Basic Tent Stitch is demonstrated in relation to the 4 techniques for creating it".
with an explaination of why and where each technique should be used. What she goes on to descibe is the difference between the accepted version of the *basic Stitch*. The ahlf cross stitch, the Continental or Tent Stitch, Basketweave Stitch and Diagonal Stitch. I had not seen diagonal stitch before.

All her decorative Stitches, here called *fancy Stitches (I love that name) are shown in full color pictures and 3 color graphs, blue on the black & white. This type of graph makes it much easier to duplicate a stitch.

There is a Design Portfolio with 9 designs shown and graphed for stitching. A small Chapter on Bargello Needlepoint and a glossery of embroidery stitches that can be adapted to needlepoint. There are also a number of Bargello Needlepoint instructions as well as 4-way Bargello.

This is a valuable book by a Master Teacher. This will be third copy of this book I have listed here.

Needlepoint Stitchery was published by Macmillan Publishing in New York and Collier MacMillan in London. The is not publication date noted but this books is a "First Printing".

This hardcover book is in very good condition. The dust jacket is very good if not better and the inside pages are very good. Someone has written a date and some numbers on the inside cover page, other then that the book is unmarked.



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Mira Silverstein's Bargello Plus
 
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