Books
The following kits are designed to be worked with the instructions, diagrams and photographs contained in the Complete Book of Stumpwork Embroidery (Book 5).
This book brings together in one volume the techniques, instructions and projects of Book 1 and Book 2.
How to order
- The Complete Book of Stumpwork Embroidery
- by Jane Nicholas, Sally Milner Publishing, 2005 Hardcover, 400 pages.
- Code: BK5 Price: $69.95
- This book brings together in one volume the techniques, stitches, instructions and projects of Stumpwork Embroidery - A Collection of Fruits, Flowers and Insects (Book 1) and Stumpwork Embroidery - Designs and Projects (Book 2).
- Rose and Bee
- Code: BK1.1 Price: $23.90
- A rose with raised petals worked in detached buttonhole stitch, a wired and embroidered leaf, and a bee worked in Turkey knots with detached gauzy wings.
Skill Level: 1
- Rose, Pomegranate and Strawberries
- Code: BK1.2 Price: $40.90
- A rose with detached buttonhole stitch petals, a raised, beaded pomegranate, padded strawberries covered with trellis stitch, a bee worked in Turkey knots with detached wings and a tiny soldier fly.
Skill Level: 2
- Acorn, Thistle and Butterfly
- Code: BK1.3 Price: $24.50
- A padded thistle with fluffy top worked in Turkey knots, raised, embroidered acorns with trellis stitch cups, a wired leaf worked in detached buttonhole stitch, and a butterfly with detached wings.
Skill Level: 1
- Acorn, Thistle and Bee
- Code: BK1.4 Price: $29.50
- Padded thistles with fluffy tops worked in Turkey knots, raised, embroidered acorns with trellis stitch cups, leaves in detached buttonhole stitch, and a bee worked in Turkey knots with detached wings.
Skill Level: 2
- Christmas Brooches
- Code: BK1.5 Price: $22.90
- Embroider padded acorns with trellis stitch cups, a raised beaded pomegranate, a blackberry worked in French knots, beaded red currants and sequins.
Skill Level: 1
- Christmas Rose and Dragonfly
- Code: BK1.6 Price: $27.90
- A Christmas Rose with detached petals and leaves, raised blackberries worked in French knots, a bronze dragonfly with detached wings, beaded holly berries and tiny gold sequins.
Skill Level: 1
- Christmas Rose, Berries and Dragonfly
- Code: BK1.7 Price: $56.90
- A Christmas Rose with detached petals and leaves, raised blackberries worked in French knots, beaded ivy berries surrounded with trellis stitch, and a dragonfly with detached wings.
Skill Level: 2
- Berries Brooch and Paperweight
- Code: BK1.8 Price: $38.50
- Raised blackberries, in various stages of ripeness, worked in French knots, a wired detached leaf, beaded black currants and a tiny soldier fly.
Skill Level: 1
- Pomegranate and Gooseberries
- Code: BK1.9 Price: $21.90
- A raised beaded pomegranate and detached wired leaf, padded gooseberries with gold veins, a ladybird with detached wings, and a tiny wrapped snail.
Skill Level: 1
- Dragonfly and Berries
- Code: BK1.10 Price: $53.50
- Blackberries in various stages of ripeness, padded gooseberries, raised pomegranates, and beaded black currants, a ladybird and dragonfly with detached wings and a silvery spiderweb.
Skill Level: 2
- Butterfly and Berries
- Code: BK1.11 Price: $67.90
- Blackberries in French knots, padded gooseberries, oranges in tent stitch, blueberries in trellis stitch, and beaded red currants, a butterfly with detached buttonhole stitch wings, a ladybird and a spiderweb.
Skill Level: 2
- Medieval Mirror Frame 1
- Code: BK1.12 Price: $101.80
- A vine border with motifs from Book 1: carnation, poppy, anemone, tulip, fennel and detached leaves, grapes, peas, aubergine, red currants, a cricket, snail, hoverfly, ladybird, butterfly and spiderweb.
Skill Level: 3
- Medieval Mirror Frame 2
- Code: BK1.13 Price: $101.80
- A vine border with motifs from Book 1: pansies, foxgloves, thistle, cottage pink, globe thistle, cotoneaster, fig, blackberries, strawberries, hedgehog, owl, bees and beehive, soldier-fly, dragonfly and spiderweb.
Skill Level: 3
- Kits
- 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