Hand-Stitched Landscape & Flowers

Katrina Witten’s book offers 10 wonderful projects.

Create beautiful landscapes and flowers using hand-stitching and layered organza.

Hand-stitched Landscapes and Flowers is a beautiful exploration of the potential of embroidery in depicting the natural world.

Katrina Witten, who is a regular on crafts channel Hochanda, uses no more than six simple stitches for each embroidery, plus delicate embellishments and an array of techniques and fabrics to portray pastoral scenes of fields, flowers and creatures with eye-catching three-dimensional effects. 

There are ten detailed projects to try, depicting, among others, a hedgerow, a bluebell-emblazoned woodland, sunflowers, a poppy field and a summer scene of buddleia, butterflies and bees.

Contents

• Materials and fabrics: Threads and yarns
• Equipment: Embellishments
• Inspiration: Designing an embroidery
• The stitches
• Techniques: Mounting fabric in a spring tension hoop
• Working with organza
• Applying beads
• Melting out appliqué motifs
• Achieving three-dimensional effects:
• Trees
• Rocks and pebbles
• Loose grasses
• Dry-stone walls
• Sheep
• Flower centres
• The projects:
• Hedgerow with Cow Parsley
• Woodland with Bluebells
• Cornflowers
• Sunflowers
• Butterfly pincushion
• Poppy Field
• Oriental Poppies
• Flower Doodles
• Moving on:
• Buddleia, Bee and Butterflies
• Hydrangea
• Templates
• Index