How to Embroider Texture and Pattern: 20 Designs That Celebrate Pattern, Color, and Pop-Up Stitching

Channel your love for nature and build your stitching skills by learning how to embroider stunning textures, patterns, colors, and other eye-catching details into your hand-stitched projects — all inside this must-have book for embroidery enthusiasts of any skill level!

Featuring 20 embroidery projects of desert canyons, purple mountains, beaches, sunsets, valley views, unique flora, and more, each with step-by-step instructions, photography, illustrated stitch guides, and patterns, this embroiderer's resource is filled with vibrant designs that start simply then slowly progress in difficulty to challenge and grow your skills as you bring beautiful outdoor scenes to life. Experiment with printed fabrics and unique stitches in this exciting approach to embroidery!

In 160 pages, this complete guide takes a skill-building approach that enables you to improve and grow your repertoire, breaking down beginner to advanced hand embroidery stitches, providing advice color blending, and highlighting the playfulness of embroidery. You'll find easy-to-follow tutorials for more than 30 need-to-know embroidery stitches, guidance for incorporating fabric prints into your projects to enhance the design, textural and 3D embroidery instruction, how to transfer a pattern, how to prep your hoop, how to finish the backs of your hoops, and other fundamental techniques. Have fun with color, create rich textures, and feel confident as you stitch your love for nature!

Author Melissa Galbraith is the embroidery artist, pattern designer, and instructor behind MCreativeJ where she draws on her love of nature. Her work has been featured in Love Embroidery magazine, the Woodlawn Needlework Exhibition, Etsy, DMC, and more.

From the mountain ranges of Washington and the desert arches of Utah to the hidden beach coves of Mexico and the tropical waterfalls of Hawaii, the hoop designs inside How to Embroider Texture and Pattern will help you take your embroidery skills to the next level and capture the art, patterns, and textures of nature — one stitch at a time!