[Lynn Krawczyk] The Hand-Stitched Surface

Description

Add new color and flair to your home with hand-stitching projects! Written by noted surface designer Lynn Krawczyk, The Hand-Stitched Surface offers inspiring techniques and beautiful projects for creating richly layered mixed-media surfaces on paper and fabric. It’s a fast world we live in; it’s important to remember to slow down and savor your handiwork, and hand-stitching is the perfect craft for that.

After Krawczyk gives you an overview of tools and supplies you’ll be using, she will move you into a section on stitching essentials which covers a range of basic stitches and how they can be modified.

You will learn the following skills:

• Mixing thread weights for textural effects
• Unique ways to create patterns for hand stitching
• Exploring color
• Tips and tricks for improvisational stitching
• And much more!