Books
The following kits are designed to be worked with the instructions, diagrams and photographs contained in Stumpwork Embroidery – Designs and Projects (Book 2) or The Complete Book of Stumpwork Embroidery (Book 5).
These kits contain all materials required to work the projects except the DMC stranded cottons which you may already have in your collection. All other threads are included.
How to order
- Stumpwork Embroidery Designs and Projects
- by Jane Nicholas, Sally Milner Publishing, 1995 Hardcover, 190 pages.
- Code: BK2 Price: $59.95
- This book explains, in a clear and comprehensive manner, how to work traditional stumpwork techniques including wired, detached embroidered shapes and padded appliqué. It provides full instructions and step-by-step illustrations for working over forty flowers, fruits and insects, and 18 projects featuring these motifs.
- The Complete Book of Stumpwork Embroidery
- by Jane Nicholas, Sally Milner Publishing, 2005 Hardcover, 400 pages.
- Code: BK5 Price: $69.95
- Following the enormous success of her recent publications, this book brings together in one volume the first two titles from Jane Nicholas. It combines the techniques, stitches, instructions and projects of the popular Stumpwork Embroidery - A Collection of Fruits, Flowers and Insects and Stumpwork Embroidery - Designs and Projects.
- Dandelion and Buttercups
- Code: BK2.1 Price: $51.90
- Shiny yellow buttercups with detached petals and leaves, dandelion bud and open seed heads, and a shimmering "blue" butterfly with raised wings.
Skill Level: 1
- Honesty and Heartsease
- Code: BK2.2 Price: $48.90
- Honesty flowers, pods and detached seed cases, Heartsease with detached petals and leaves, a buff-tailed bumble bee worked in Turkey knots with raised wings, and a tiny ladybird.
Skill Level: 2
- Oriental Poppy and Cornflowers
- Code: BK2.3 Price: $46.90
- An Oriental poppy, with detached petals, a poppy bud and seed pod, cornflowers worked in Turkey knots with trellis stitch bases, a beaded damselfly with raised wings, a caterpillar and a spiderweb.
Skill Level: 2
- Pea Flower Roundel
- Code: BK2.5 Price: $16.50
- Embroider a pea flower with a detached petal and leaves, wrapped wire tendrils, and pea pods in buttonhole stitch, split to reveal beaded peas.
Skill Level: 1
- Elizabethan Roundel with Bumble Bee
- Code: BK2.6 Price: $42.90
- Raised, embroidered acorns with trellis stitch bases, thistles worked in Turkey knots and a bumble bee with detached wings, beaded grapes with wired tendrils, enclosed by a vine interlaced with gold.
Skill Level: 1
- Elizabethan Roundel with Ladybird
- Code: BK2.8 Price: $37.50
- A carnation worked in whipped spiderweb stitch, raised foxgloves, padded strawberries covered in trellis stitch, and a tiny ladybird with detached wings, enclosed by a vine interlaced with gold.
Skill Level: 1
- Stumpwork Chatelaine
- Code: BK2.7 Price: $125.50
- A small silk pouch, a pin-wheel, thimble pipkin, scissors scabbard and needlebook, all embellished with raised embroidery and beads. The pouch may be used for jewellery or as an evening bag.
Skill Level: 2
- Gold/Purple Pansy Kit
- Code: BK2.9 Price: $16.90
- Work two pansies, with wired detached petals embroidered in silk, in the ever-popular colours of golden yellow and dark purple.
Skill Level: 1