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The Needleworker's Companion by Shay Pendray

Famous needlepoint teacher Shay Pendray has written a comprehensive and complete reference guide for us stitchers. I can best describe what's in this book by listing the chapters. Each chapter has many sub-chapters, too many to list here. Needlework with 12 sub-chapters covering all kinds of needlework Fabrics with 11 sub-chapters Threads with 11 sub-chapters Needles with 8 sub-chapters Tools with 3 sub-chapters Transferring A Design with 2 sub-chapters Mounting Fabric with 3 sub-chapters Starting A Thread with 7 sub-chapters Ending a Thread with 5 sub-chapters Sinking Needle Starting To Stitch with 3 sub-chapters The Stitches with 17 subchapters Fixing Materials Blocking, Framing & Finishing Cleaning Needlework Resources Index As you can see, it is all here. The needlworker's Companion is a paperbound book with a metal spiral binding, all the pages are printed on heavy card stock. The book has a wrap-around cover and the smallish size (7 X 5 inches) makes this a good book to put in your needlepoint tote bag to have with you when you need it. Published by the Interweave press in 2002. The book has 112 pages. ISBN #1-931499-07-1 Selling New Books is very different from selling my used, hard-to-find or rare books. New books have a set retail price and I have to compete in the marketplace. NewNeedlepoint.com will be charging the full retail price for these fine new books but I will ship them for free. Please consider the Free Shipping as a Discount. Free Media Mail Delivery in the USA

Create Your Home in Counted Thread by Mary Jenkins

Below the title on the cover are listed : Diagonal Stitches Cross Stitches Straight Stitches Decorative Stitches Counted thread work is suitable to Needlepoint, Embroidery and Cross Stitch fabrics. I like the freedom Counted Thread gives you in terms of design, details & color. From the back cover of the book : "Create beautiful samplers inspired by the subjects closest to your heart- your own home and garden." Further down the back cover it describes the book's contents " A wide selection of houses ready-charted with advice on how to chart your own Instructions on how to add a garden and even pets to your sampler A unique opportunity to use traditional stitches in a new & creative way Easy-to-Follow charts, stitch diagrams and colour photographs throughout" In paging through this book, I am impressed. The examples are wonderful. Not impossibly complex or overdone, just very good. The instructions and advice is excellent. There are pages of sample windows, doors, animals, shrubs & trees. There is a section with very good diagrams of stitches. The only downside I can see (or imagine) with this book is that it was published in the UK so most of the houses are homes you might find there, not here in the USA. Then again, many home styles are universal. An amazing book. First published in the UK as House & Garden Samplers in 1996. Retitled and published as a paperbound book by David & Charles in 2005. Create Your Home In Counted Thread is a glossy cover paperbound book. It has 119 pages. Selling New Books is very different from selling my used, hard-to-find or rare books. New books have a set retail price and I have to compete in the marketplace. NewNeedlepoint.com will be charging the full retail price for these fine new books but I will mail them for free. Please consider the Free Shipping as a Discount. FREE MEDIA MAIL DELIVERY IN THE USA

The Cross Stitcher's Bible by Jane Greenoff

The subtitle on the cover of this books says "The Definitive Manual of Essential Cross Stitch and Counted Thread Techniques". The cover (and very informative it is) goes on to say that this is the New & Revised Edition with over 100 Charted Designs and Project Ideas with an excellent Stitch Library featuring Even More Choice. Although I was a bit sarcastic above, this does seem like a truly complete book, it covers the basics, how to follow a chart, types of charts, equipment needed and more in the Getting Started Chapter. All though the book, there are tips and hints like using blended filaments on page 46 in the Creative Options chapter. There are 18 pages of stitches, all done in 3 color, mostly 4 to a page. There are 43 pages in the Chart Library, one or two to a page including a full floral alphabet and a chapter on finishing. An impressive book. The Cross Stitcher'sBible is spiral bound inside a hard cover. I love books like this, they stay open where you want them to and lay flat. Published by David & Charles Limited in 2007. Adapted from originals supplied by The Cross Stitcher Guild. The book has 233 pages. ISBN # 978-01753-2545-2 Selling New Books is very different from selling my used, hard-to-find or rare books. New books have a set retail price and I have to compete in the marketplace. NewNeedlepoint.com will be charging the full retail price for these fine new books but I will mail them for free. Please consider the Free Shipping as a Discount. FREE MEDIA MAIL DELIVERY IN THE USA

A Potpourri of Pattern Encore by Ann Strite Kurz

This is the follow-up book to Ms. Strite-Kurz's excellent book, A Potpourri of Pattern. The subtitle is: A Collection of Previously Unpublished Patterns for Canvas and Counted Thread Use. I guess that says it all. The sections are: Introductions & Techniques Background Patterns Border Patterns Laid Fillings Miscellaneous Composite Patterns Diaper Patterns Color Comparisons. The author, as well as the original Potpourri of Pattern book has also written 9 other books. I am only familiar with 3 of them I think I will find out if I can get any of the others. A Potpourri of Pattern Encore has just been released. It is a 2010 self published paperbound book with a plastic spiral binding. It has 130 Pages. Selling New Books is very different from selling my used, hard-to-find or rare books. New books have a set retail price and I have to compete in the marketplace. NewNeedlepoint.com will be charging the full retail price for these fine new books but I will mail them for free. Please consider the Free Shipping as a Discount. FREE MEDIA MAIL DELIVERY IN THE USA Everything I said about that books is true for this one too. Her forword says " The main purpose of this book is to provide readers with some innovative ideas for stitch treatments"

TNNA's How to Embroider including How to Cross-Stitch

Another basic and very helpful book from The National NeedleArts Association's Needlecraft Resource Library. This is the Revised Edition. It is really a large booklet, packed with the essential things you need to know to begin Embroidery or Cross Stitch. The inside back cover of the books says "This book is intended to get you started enjoying embroidery." I think that says it all. This is an absolute beginner's book and very accessible and easy to understand for someone who has not stitched before. This is large glossy cover pamphlet or booklet first published by the TNNA in 1990 and revised and re-released in 2002. It has 38 pages. ISBN # 8-20638-01042-0 (I think) Selling New Books is very different from selling my used, hard-to-find or rare books. New books have a set retail price and I have to compete in the marketplace. NewNeedlepoint.com will be charging the full retail price for these fine new books but I will mail them for free. Please consider the Free Shipping as a Discount. FREE MEDIA MAIL DELIVERY IN THE USA

Embroidery Techniques Using Space Dyed Threads by Via Laurie

Along the top of the cover of this book is a band with different kinds of Embroidery listed. They include: GoldWork StumpWork Ribbon Embroidery Jacobean Style Canvas Work (needlepoint) Blackwork Hardanger Casalguidi Crazy PatchWork. The only name on the list I am unfamiliar with is Casalguidi. From the back cover of the book " Space-Dyed threads offer exciting design possibilities with their beautiful, subtle color changes. It goes on to say that this book contains many illustrations, all in full color, of "Stunning Projects" (their words) and 10 traditional Embroidery Techniques (must the the names on the cover). Embroidery Techniques Using Space Dyed Threads includes Templates & Diagrams for each project and a comprehensive stitch Gallery. In looking through the book the projects are indeed womderful. A few of them are easily adaptab;le to Cross-Stitch as well. A new glossy paperbound book. Published by Search Press in the UK in 2008. The book was originally published in South Africa in 2007 by Metz Press. 128 pages. ISBN# 978-1-84448-340-2 Selling New Books is very different from selling my used, hard-to-find or rare books. New books have a set retail price and I have to compete in the marketplace. NewNeedlepoint.com will be charging the full retail price for these fine new books but I will mail them for free. Please consider the Free Shipping as a Discount. FREE MEDIA MAIL DELIVERY IN THE USA

Cross Stitch by Jan Eaton

This book is part of The Art of Crafts Series. It is an interesting book. The cover stitching is just wonderful. I will post a larger picture of it further down in the listing. This is another of the spiral bound hard cover books I like so well. They stay open, lay flat and are easy to use. This book begins with a History of Cross-Stitch, Then a chapter of Basic & Practical Skills and a Special Techniques chapter. There are 15 projects in the book: Zodiac Birthday Cards Easter Bunny Border Tulip Table Linen Rosebud Scented Sachets Knot Garden Apron Seaside Holiday Towels Elizabethan Band Sampler Autumn Leaves Sewing Set Sepia Alphabet Sampler Fruity Perserve Covers Squirrel & Acorn Bookmarks Crystal Snowflake Bowls Christmas Ornaments Traditional Motif Sampler Valentine Keepsake and a Finishing Touches chapter. many of these designs are good ideas for gifts. I thought the list maybe sounded a little stogy but in looking through the designs, they are charming. Indeed, many would make wonderful gifts. The charts are excellent. Each has a color chart and placement guide using DMC floss numbers. This is a "user friendly" book. This is a close up of the cover This is a new book Published in 2000 by The Crowood Press LTD in Ramsbury, Marlborough, Wiltshire, UK. Cross Stitch has 96 pages. ISBN # 1-86126-307-4 Selling New Books is very different from selling my used, hard-to-find or rare books. New books have a set retail price and I have to compete in the marketplace. NewNeedlepoint.com will be charging the full retail price for these fine new books but I will mail them for free. Please consider the Free Shipping as a Discount. FREE MEDIA MAIL DELIVERY IN THE USA

Left Handed Stitchery by Sally Cowan

With Illustrations by Kurt Loftus. Left Handed Stitching is a very much overlooked subject in needlework. I know of only one other book on the subject, the New York Times Book of Needlepoint for Left Handers and it is so rare it is difficult to find. It is long out of print. This is a more concise book, aimed at Embroiders and useful to Cross-Stitchers. There are instructions for 45 stitches using 96 drawings. In the forward the author, Sally Cowan who is also the author of Left Handed Sewing, says that she has gone beyond the basic sewing stitches in her first book to concentrate on Decorative Stitching for left handers. As the Daughter and Mother of left handers I can tell you that it can be difficult to be different. Left Handed Stitchery is a medium size glossy paperbound book. It was published by Schiffler Publishing in 1987 and has 61 pages. This is a brand new book. ISBN #978-0-88740-110-7 Selling New Books is very different from selling my used, hard-to-find or rare books. New books have a set retail price and I have to compete in the marketplace. NewNeedlepoint.com will be charging the full retail price for these fine new books but I will mail them for free. Please consider the Free Shipping as a Discount. FREE MEDIA MAIL DELIVERY IN THE USA

Stitch Graffiti by Heather Holland-Daly

The subtitle for this books reads like this: XX UNEXPECTED CROSS-STITCH XX This does appear to be an unusual book. On the back cover it says "Heather Holland-Daly , owner of the design company Monsterbubbles, puts a new twist on the classic craft of cross-stitch with this collection of 25 stylish, witty and playful designs for the modern stitcher" Usually this is enough to send me screaming into the night but I am trying to be objective. The book begins with the basics, the designs are mostly smallish and indeed unusual. There are a number of text based designs. Some of the designs she calls Graffiti, some Tattoos and some Stuff. The designs are grouped under these chapter headings. Each design has a full color chart with thread colors and placement. Each design has "possibilities" and finishing suggestions. It is a fun looking book, really. Glossy new paperbound, Stitch Graffiti was published by Interweave Press in 2008. The book has 111 pages. ISBN# 978-1-59668-045-6 Selling New Books is very different from selling my used, hard-to-find or rare books. New books have a set retail price and I have to compete in the marketplace. NewNeedlepoint.com will be charging the full retail price for these fine new books but I will mail them for free. Please consider the Free Shipping as a Discount. FREE MEDIA MAIL DELIVERY IN THE USA

Select Pocket Library Cross Stitch by Hillary More

Hillary More is the author or editor of many of these fine little needlework books. They are surprisingly comprehensive and the perfect size to toss into your needlework tote. This is the dust jacket blurb, it think it says it all "Crammed with helpful text and with clear illustrations, this series of user-friendly reference books is for all needleworkers, weather beginner or long term enthusiast." Cross Stitch is a new, small hardbound book. Published byRosemary Wilkinson and Malcolm Saunders Publishing Co in London in 1994. The book has 95 pages. ISBN# 1-85648-279-0 Selling New Books is very different from selling my used, hard-to-find or rare books. New books have a set retail price and I have to compete in the marketplace. NewNeedlepoint.com will be charging the full retail price for these fine new books but I will mail them for free. Please consider the Free Shipping as a Discount. FREE MEDIA MAIL DELIVERY IN THE USA

The Portable Crafter Cross-Stitch by LIz Turner Diehl

The Cross Stitch projects in this book are meant to be stitched while you are "on the go" (quote from the book). The is a small hardcover book, the perfect size (and weight) to toss into your needlework tot bag. The book has a 12 page chapter on the basics of Cross Stitch, 17 project ranging from pillows to jewelry. The book has a metric Conversion chart, as well. Published by Sterling Publishing in New York in 2006. The book has 96 pages. ISBN # 978-1-4027-2140-3 Selling New Books is very different from selling my used, hard-to-find or rare books. New books have a set retail price and I have to compete in the marketplace. NewNeedlepoint.com will be charging the full retail price for these fine new books but I will mail them for free. Please consider the Free Shipping as a Discount. FREE MEDIA MAIL DELIVERY IN THE USA

A Potpourri of Pattern by Ann Strite-Kurz

Another interesting Needlework book by Ann Strite-Kurz, the author of Creative Canvas Couching (what a surprise, I also have that here for sale), The Heart of Blackwork, Backgrounds, The Finishing Touch (which 2 I do not have here..yet). The subtitle of this book is: A Collection of Original Open Patterns for Canvas and Linen Use. That pretty much says it all. Her forword says " The main purpose of this book is to provide readers with some innovative ideas for stitch treatments" There are 130 pages of them, all of these patterns look interesting to me. In fact, I am currently stitching something myself and I want an open stitch background. There are several good possibilities here. There are no color pictures inside the book but the front and back covers, inside & out have a "potpourri" of different stitches shown with each identified. This a new book, self-published in 1995, this copy is a first edition. It is a largish glossy paperbound book with a plastic spiral binding. ISBN:0-9633259-2-2 Selling New Books is very different from selling my used, hard-to-find or rare books. New books have a set retail price and I have to compete in the marketplace. NewNeedlepoint.com will be charging the full retail price for these fine new books but I will mail them for free. Please consider the Free Shipping as a Discount. FREE MEDIA MAIL DELIVERY IN THE USA

The Beginner's Guide to Blackwork by Lesley Wilkins

I have always been interested in Blackwork and drawn to it when I see it. So.....I saw this book on the wholesaler's list and thought, why not? I am as much as a beginner in this as anyone. I am quoting from the introduction "Blackwork is a counted thread method of needlework (ok, it said embroidery but I used the word needlework) using straight stitches in a contrasting color worked on even weave fabric (me again, or white & colored canvas). The book appears to be quite comprehensive, it begins at the very beginning, showing you hw to pick the correct materials, the basic stitches, starting a design etc. and takes you all the way to mounting a finished piece. There are a number of pages of designs and more pages with lots of "fill-in patterns". The pictures are mostly black & white (and why not, it is blackwork, after all). The Beginner's Guide to Blackwork is a handsome glossy heavy paperbound book with 64 pages. It was first published by Search Press in Tunbridge Wells, England in 2002. This is the 2008 re-printed edition. ISBN # 978-0-85532-937-2 Selling New Books is very different from selling my used, hard-to-find or rare books. New books have a set retail price and I have to compete in the marketplace. NewNeedlepoint.com will be charging the full retail price for these fine new books but I will mail them for free. Please consider the Free Shipping as a Discount. FREE MEDIA MAIL DELIVERY IN THE USA

Needlecraft: Skills & Techniques by Lucinda Ganderton

Lucinda Ganderton is the author of the classic stitch book Stitch Sampler. Stitch Sampler sold well here on NewNeedlepoint as a hard to find book and now it has been re-issued in a new edition (which I list here). Needlecraft: Skills & Techniques is part of the Practical Home Handbook series. Quoting from the back cover; "Over 500 instructional illustrations-both step by step to show you how and glorious inspirational galleries of the best current & traditional Pieces " Equipment, tools & materials all fully described and explained-how to choose them and how to use them "Learn how to master the traditional crafts with ease and how to adapt classic approaches and designs for modern equipment and contemporary projects" "The primary teaching manual for all new needlecrafters and a standard reference work for advanced practitioners" I think that last sentence says it all. This book is full of tips and techniques, in skimming through it I learned a few thgings I did not know. THis would be an essentail book for beginners and useful to use veteren stitchers, as well. Packed with full color pictures and with Lucinda Ganderton's needlework knowledge ISBN # 978-0-7548-0810-7 Selling New Books is very different from selling my used, hard-to-find or rare books. New books have a set retail price and I have to compete in the marketplace. NewNeedlepoint.com will be charging the full retail price for these fine new books but I will mail them for free. Please consider the Free Shipping as a Discount. FREE MEDIA MAIL DELIVERY IN THE USA