Award winning designer Ursula Michael brings her popular and heart-warming designs to machine embroidery. Now, you can fill your home with her colorful, fun and imaginative designs in projects created for every season! &break;&break;In this new book, Ursula gives you: &break;&break;38 delightful projects perfect for gift-giving as well as home decorations &break;&break;Bonus CD with 42 charming original designs for machine embroidery &break;&break;Friendly instruction, complete materials and tools lists, spectacular color combination ideas and full-color photos for each project. &break;&break;Whimsical Machine Embroidery will show you how to use your sewing skills to create fun and festive handmade accessories for every season. See how easy it is to embroider a spooky witch's hat banner, ghostly treat bags, chilly penguin ornaments, snuggly snowmen (and snowbabies!), gingerbread boy and girl towels and much more. &break;&break;Sew your way through the year with these happy, colorful seasonal designs. Start stitching today!

A collection of designs and projects using an embroidery machine. There are 14 craft projects including a lap quilt, detail utility pail, placemats and flower-pot holders. The accompanying CD-ROM features 40 embroidery designs that can be imported into any embroidery machine.

Simple to stitch and so much fun, these whimsical hand-embroidery projects feature winter's most charismatic characters--snowmen. You won't be able to get enough of these roly-poly snowmen as they cook, sew, quilt, and frolic in a winter wonderland created by you! Charming snowman patterns let you showcase your handwork while creating adorable decor Easy, portable projects make great gifts and festive holiday decorations--including a table runner, pillow, ornaments, and more Mix-and-match motifs let you customize your embroidery with just a few simple suppliesVideo

With Embellishments for Adventurous Sewing, you'll delve into various methods of applique, learn the nuances of free-motion embroidery and thread sketching, and learn to maximize the decorative stitches and embroidery capabilities of your sewing machine.

Paint, Stitch, Play! In The Art of Whimsical Stitching, bestselling author and teacher Joanne Sharpe shares her favorite, go-to methods for creating exuberant stitch art. If you're a sewer or quilter, you'll take your stitching in a new direction with paints, markers, and dyes. If you're a mixed-media artist, you'll learn to embellish your work with stitching. Follow step-by-step instructions and photos demonstrating a dozen inspiring techniques, including collage, stenciling, free-motion stitching, fused applique lettering, needle felting, doodle machine and hand embroidery, and more! Then, transform your custom fabric into playful pillows and bags, art quilts, journals, and other fun and funk-tional projects. Joanne's whimsical artwork and a "sketchbook" of designs you can adapt for your own work round out this colorful, inspirational guide.

With the emphasis on the fun aspects of learning, this book is full of ideas for creating beautiful embroidered effects. Many of the patterns are based on two straightforward stitches which can be as easily accomplished by the beginner as by the more advanced embroiderer.

Let's talk about tools -- Let's talk about my favorite stitches -- Let's talk about fabric -- Let's talk about stitching outside the hoop -- Let's talk about inspiration to stitch -- Let's talk about thrifting for old treasures -- Let's talk about stitching what you see.