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    Artful Embroidery on Canvas: Get Creative with Thread, Fabric, Paper, Acrylic Mediums & More
    Artful Embroidery on Canvas: Get Creative with Thread, Fabric, Paper, Acrylic Mediums & More
    Artful Embroidery on Canvas: Get Creative with Thread, Fabric, Paper, Acrylic Mediums & More
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    Artful Embroidery on Canvas: Get Creative with Thread, Fabric, Paper, Acrylic Mediums & More

    By Irene Schlesinger

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    Transform ordinary artist canvas into an embroidered masterpiece! With easy-to-learn stitches, your embroidery needle becomes a paintbrush to stitch creative ideas into life. Get your feet wet with small art pieces and step-by-step techniques for stitching on stretched canvas. Gather supplies to add appliqué, acrylic paint, fibers, beads, and even mirrors to your mixed-media pieces! Get tips on how to finish and display canvas embroidery art, with an extensive project gallery for inspiration. It's like art quilting for needlework lovers!


    • Embellish unique art pieces with fibers, sequins, beads, paper, paint, and more

    • Amateur embroiderers and experienced needleworkers alike will love seeing their work from an artist's point of view

    • Get started with three small sample projects

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherC&T Publishing, Inc.
    Release dateJan 7, 2020
    ISBN9781617458859
    Artful Embroidery on Canvas: Get Creative with Thread, Fabric, Paper, Acrylic Mediums & More
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    Irene Schlesinger

    Irene Schlesinger learned to stitch from her grandmother. Her schooling and admiration of folk, surrealist, and expressionist artists inspired her use of vibrant colors, patterns, and textures in embroidered canvases and mixed-medium panels. She lives in San Francisco. ireneschlesingerartwork.com

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      Artful Embroidery on Canvas - Irene Schlesinger

      Stitching on Canvas

      Embroidering on stretched canvas can be as pleasurable as stitching with a hoop. Stretched canvas has a smooth, taut surface waiting for you and your big needles. This opening chapter is provided to acquaint the needlework beginner with the few basic stitches for completing the projects included in the book.

      The projects are open-ended. The more advanced embroiderer could and should switch them up by adding more elaborate stitching. The stitches that follow are not difficult; practice will lead to mastering them. Mastering them will lead to improvising, which is a path to developing your own unique style.

      In your hands, a needle becomes a paintbrush. Your stitches are as unique as the strokes from an artist’s brush. As artists, we want to be unique, original, and memorable.

      RUNNING AND DOUBLE RUNNING STITCH

      Running stitches are (traditionally) uniform straight stitches with uniform spaces between. I outline areas with a running stitch and then go back and fill the spaces between the stitches. That is known as a double running stitch.

      Traditional running stitch

      Double running stitch

      STEM STITCH

      The stem stitch is also used for lines and outlining. The first stitch is a straight stitch. The needle comes up through the canvas and then goes back down into the canvas. The next stitch starts alongside the middle of the first stitch … and sew it goes.

      Stem stitch

      Row of stem stitches

      TIP || To keep long satin stitches from catching on something, use a glue stick on the area of the canvas that the stitches will cover. This keeps the yarn in place. (Be sure to use a glue stick—using a wet glue will gunk it up.)

      SATIN STITCH

      The satin stitch is used for filling in spaces and shapes. It’s a series of straight stitches that line up next to each other.

      Satin stitches

      Satin-stitched heart

      SIMPLIFIED SHISHA STITCH

      The shisha stitch is one method of attaching small flat objects, such as mirrors or mosaic tiles, to your canvas. I am showing you a mini version of this

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