The Embroidered Closet: Modern Hand-stitching for Upgrading and Upcycling Your Wardrobe
With a love of nature firmly within her heart, Alexandra Stratkotter writes The Embroidered Closet, marrying this thematic foundation with key embroidery projects and challenges. Within this book, you can learn the novice like steps to becoming a further experienced embroiderer. Those who have a prior knowledge to this technique will also find this book alluring, with its focus on creating sustainable products with a beautiful finesse’. This is no same old boring guide, Stratkotter educates us on the lesser talked about subject areas, the ones which are vital to learn yet may seem too silly to ask…how do we know which fabrics work best? How does interfacing work? Or what about marks left from transferring images onto the fabric, how do we get rid of them?! These subjects are covered near the start of the book, leading us nicely on with enough confidence to try one of the offered projects. The photography is sublime, subtle backgrounds with a natural edge, such as wood and walling have been used to capture the items we are destined to create. What will you embroider? A floral sweater may seem like something we have come across previously, but what about a Wildflower Skirt or a Gardeners Apron? These ideas made me smile, I hope they do the same for you too.