Embroiderers' Guild Bookshop - Contemporary Embroidery

Beginners Guide to Machine Embroidered Flowers BESTSELLER!
Holt, Alison
Pub. Search Press
Price £9.99 paperback
This book is a guide to drawing flowers and foliage with a sewing machine. the vivid and colourful floral landscapes are given further depth by the use of hand-painted silk backgrounds. With clear instructions this book is suitable for all levels, you will be bringing your gardens indoors.

Beginners Guide to Machine Embroidered Landscapes
Holt, A
Pub. Search Press
Price £8.95 paperback
In her popular and interesting book, Alison Holt starts with handpainted silk backgrounds, then machine embroiders onto this surface to produce a stunning range of exquisite landscapes and gardens. With very clear instructions and full-colour photographs and illustrations, this book will inspire you to create your own unique and beautiful landscapes.

Beginners Guide to Machine Embroidery
Watts, P
Pub. Search Press
Price £8.95 paperback

Celtic Inspirations for Machine Embroiderers now in paperback
Campbell-Harding, V and Grey, M
Pub. Batsford
Price £14.99 paperback

Edges and Finishes in Machine Embroidery now in paperback
Campbell-Harding, V
Pub. Batsford
Price £14.99 paperback

Handmade Embroidered Purses using free machine embroidery NEW!
Jenny Rolfe
Pub. Search Press
Price £9.99 paperback

Layers of Stitch
Campbell-Harding, V & Grey, M
Pub. Batsford
Price £15.99 paperback
Use tools available with your modern sewing machine and/or computer incorporated with the latest textile mediums and fabrics. Includes gaining skills in creating backgrounds, stitched motifs and slips, finishing techniques, scanning and designing with software, 3D forms, and using mixed media.

Machine Embroidery Stitched Patterns
Campbell-Harding, V
Pub. Batsford
Price £15.99 paperback

Raising the Surface with Machine Embroidery now in paperback
Grey, M
Pub. Batsford
Price £14.99 paperback
Techniques and ideas for creating highly textured surfaces are explored from beginning with making backgrounds and low-relief stitching, moving through to highrelief textures with applied motifs, frames, masks and three-dimensional constructions. Machine embroidery is combined with various media throughout, including hand stitching, puff paints and other modelling agents, straws and sticks, wireform, polymer clay and much more. Needing only enthusiasm and a swing-needle sewing machine to get started, you will be guided through.

Stitch Dissolve Distort with Machine Embroidery NEW!
Cambell-Harding & Grey, Maggie
Pub. Batsford
Price £18.99 hardback