My First Embroidery Book: A Name Sampler (A Palmer/Pletsch book for children) - Softcover

Cherry, Winky; Palmer, Pati

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0935278311 ISBN 13: 9780935278316

Publisher: Palmer-Pletsch Associates, 1994

Synopsis

Sewing-from simple stitches to making dolls to understanding the sewing machine.

About this title

From the Author

My First Embroidery Book teaches straight-flat stitches.
My First Embroidery Book encourages the child to follow directions which are necessary to work with kits and patterns. This book teaches the running stitch, cross stitch and satin stitch. Stitches cover LINES THAT SHOW WHERE STITCHES GO on a 1/4" gingham squares. Stitches are locked in place with a new lock stitch. IF YOU KNOW HOW TO TIE YOUR SHOE, THIS IS A LOCK STITCH YOU CAN DO. Children can make a name sampler that can be made into a pillow or framed. A grownup draws the child's name in X's on the squares. A chart of the alphabet and ideas for additional names and ideas for embroidery are in the book. With practice a child can learn to make stitches poking the corner of the square like the dots he learned to follow in My First Sewing Book. To make more embroidery projects children also learn to draw words on graph paper, and on fabric to work from a chart. Embroidery stitches are limited in length to the length of the side of a 1/4" square. When the child knows how to make stitches in 1/4" squares he can try smaller 1/8th gingham squares and make stitches with a single thread or STITCH A BEAR IN ONE INCH SQUARES! Embroidery stitches are necessary to know before making a doll's face at the third level of the program, My First Doll Book.

About the Author

Winky Cherry has been teaching children to sew for more than 40 years. She is the author of the My First Sewing Book series of kits, and a teaching manual and two DVDs based on The Winky Cherry System of Sewing. She believes that hand sewing rewards the child with a feeling of accomplishment and a completed project. Sewing is also a way to learn safety, sharing, decision-making, confidence, and patience. She uses rhymes because they make sewing rules fun and easy to remember. She lives in Tesuque, Arizona.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palmer-Pletsch Associates
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0935278311
• ISBN 13: 9780935278316
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 40