Just Stitch

From the basic stitches to how to use color, this book is packed with hundreds of ideas, inspiring projects and useful tips to create beautiful embroidery.

Exquisite embroidery projects with original fauna and flora designs in a variety of threads to create a 3D effect.

The book is filled with novel concepts in mixed-media embroidery and offers many interpretations and techniques, with striking examples of textured finishes. Lavishly illustrated with beautiful commissioned photographs, it offers 12 colour themes to help embroiderers understand colour, and inspiring projects to encourage them produce their own creative work. Also included are an extensive stitch glossary and templates for the designs.

Previously published as Embroidered Flora & Fauna.

Lesley Turpin-Delport has a Fine Arts degree and post graduate teaching diploma and has been an enthusiastic teacher, lecturer and author in art and needlecraft since the early 1970s. She has taught needlecraft in many countries including Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, the UK and the USA. In addition to many exhibitions in Johannesburg, her work has also been on display in Japan, Maastricht and Olympia in London. Her daughter, Nicola Delport-Wepener, has recently joined forces with her and they offer classes and lectures internationally. Lesley currently lives in the Southern Cape in South Africa.