Free Motion Embroidery: Creating textile art with layered fabric & stitch - Softcover

Essam, Katie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1800920482 ISBN 13: 9781800920484

Publisher: Search Press, 2022

Synopsis

This revised and updated title is drawn from Katie Essam's successful Layered and Stitched Pictures in The Textile Artist series.

Incorporating a new bonus project, this book showcases Katie's free machine embroidery techniques. Her fresh, modern style uses a unique combinations of traditional techniques, and in this book she shows how to create stunning textile art inspired by the beauty in everyday objects.

With eight projects and lots of finished artworks to spark creativity, this book teaches the reader how to draw inspiration from the animals, birds, gardens, beach huts and scenes that surround us all; and use that inspiration as fuel to create gorgeous stitched pictures.

About this title

About the Author

Katie Essam, a textile artist and author, lives in Bexhill, East Sussex, UK. Since graduating in 2011 from the University of Hertfordshire with a BA Hons in Contemporary Applied Art, she has been struck with a passion for textiles. Having taught herself freehand machine embroidery, appliqué and many other textile techniques, she now combines them to make original framed, mixed media textile art pieces, inspired by the beauty in everyday objects and vintage. To see more of Katie's work visit: www.katie-essam.co.uk

From the Back Cover

Experiment and discover your own artistic voice and style! Providing a wealth of inspiration for those new to textile art as well as experienced textile artists, Free Motion Embroidery guides you through the entire creative process – from finding inspiration to designing your own stitched artworks.

Katie Essam's fresh, modern approach to textile art uses unique combinations of media and free motion embroidery techniques to create beautiful mixed-media artworks inspired by everyday objects and scenes. Katie shows you how to combine free machine embroidery, appliqué, hand stitching, collage and fabric painting through step-by-step photographs, numerous examples of her work and 7 gorgeous step-by-step projects accompanied by full-size templates. A free bonus project is also included.

Edition details

• Publisher: Search Press
• Publication date: 2022
• ISBN 10: 1800920482
• ISBN 13: 9781800920484
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 128