Take this highly popular ancient art into the 21st century with 6 stunning multimedia projects from Hazel Blomkamp’s 5th title in the series.
Animal portraits receive Hazel’s stunning and practical treatment in crewel with a twist. Fun to read and highly practical this is a beautiful book of beautiful stitchery. There are six projects, each explained with detailed step-by-step instructions and clear photographs, with design templates and a full stitch gallery providing everything readers need to recreate them with ease. The sumptuous and inspiring projects covering iconic animals:
Giraffe
Leopard
Lion
Monkey
Tiger
Zebra
This is a celebration of Hazel’s signature techniques:
A wide variety of surface/crewel stitches, some of which are brand new and many with a different take or different ways of combining stitches to make them more interesting
Needle lace techniques used as embroidery stitches, loom weaving techniques modified for embroidery, and unique combinations of both of these.
The incorporation of beads and crystals adds even more dazzle to the intricate designs
For embroiderers looking for something different and new to stitch, and for those keen to challenge themselves with more complex embroidery techniques, this book is a must-have.
Hazel Blomkamp has dabbled with all the needlecrafts since childhood. When her children were babies she developed a passion for embroidery to break the tedium of life with toddlers, using it as her evening reward for having got through the day with her sanity intact. Her children are now young adults and she still embroiders in front of the television every night. She has been designing for the past 18 years. Preferring to design projects which appear to be traditional, she pushes the boundaries by introducing other forms of needlecraft into traditional techniques, exploring further in everything that she does. Along with designing, she runs a busy website from home. She teaches at her home studio, in Pietermaritzburg, KZN, and travels throughout South Africa and Australia teaching embroidery and fine beadwork. She is a regular contributor to South African and Australian embroidery magazines and is a columnist for South African Stitches Magazine.
View titles by Hazel Blomkamp
Take this highly popular ancient art into the 21st century with 6 stunning multimedia projects from Hazel Blomkamp’s 5th title in the series.
Animal portraits receive Hazel’s stunning and practical treatment in crewel with a twist. Fun to read and highly practical this is a beautiful book of beautiful stitchery. There are six projects, each explained with detailed step-by-step instructions and clear photographs, with design templates and a full stitch gallery providing everything readers need to recreate them with ease. The sumptuous and inspiring projects covering iconic animals:
Giraffe
Leopard
Lion
Monkey
Tiger
Zebra
This is a celebration of Hazel’s signature techniques:
A wide variety of surface/crewel stitches, some of which are brand new and many with a different take or different ways of combining stitches to make them more interesting
Needle lace techniques used as embroidery stitches, loom weaving techniques modified for embroidery, and unique combinations of both of these.
The incorporation of beads and crystals adds even more dazzle to the intricate designs
For embroiderers looking for something different and new to stitch, and for those keen to challenge themselves with more complex embroidery techniques, this book is a must-have.
Author
Hazel Blomkamp has dabbled with all the needlecrafts since childhood. When her children were babies she developed a passion for embroidery to break the tedium of life with toddlers, using it as her evening reward for having got through the day with her sanity intact. Her children are now young adults and she still embroiders in front of the television every night. She has been designing for the past 18 years. Preferring to design projects which appear to be traditional, she pushes the boundaries by introducing other forms of needlecraft into traditional techniques, exploring further in everything that she does. Along with designing, she runs a busy website from home. She teaches at her home studio, in Pietermaritzburg, KZN, and travels throughout South Africa and Australia teaching embroidery and fine beadwork. She is a regular contributor to South African and Australian embroidery magazines and is a columnist for South African Stitches Magazine.
View titles by Hazel Blomkamp
