Stitched Textiles: Animals

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An inspirational, practical guide by textile artist Letitia Thompson, the world of Mrs Bertimus!

In this exciting new book Letitia shows you how to create colourful, contemporary, animal-themed stitched textiles with a quirky mix of vintage and whimsical style.

Letitia’s subjects range from playful, dancing mice to crafty foxes, their personalities skillfully captured in stitch using free-motion machine embroidery and hand stitching. The progression from idea to stitch is developed in easy stages, providing a valuable insight into the author’s creative process and the methods she uses to achieve her stunning textile artworks. Starting with a comprehensive materials and techniques section, the book includes three step-by-step projects, templates, and numerous finished pieces to spark your creativity, resulting in a unique source of ideas and inspiration for textile artists of all abilities.

From the Publisher

Take your textile art to the next level!

In this inspiring, practical guide, textile artist Mrs Bertimus shows you how to create colourful, contemporary, animal-themed stitched textiles with a quirky mix of vintage and whimsical style.

The progression from idea to stitch is developed in easy stages, providing a valuable insight into the author’s creative process and the methods she uses to achieve her stunning textile artworks.

Brimming with inspirational techniques including:

Freestyle machine embroidery

Composing with sticky notes

Paper collage

Printing plates

Includes three step-by-step projects!

Sausage Dog

This is a good project to start with as we use relatively few fabric pieces and add more throughout the process. This is a great way to build up a multi-layered, textured surface.

Midnight Fox

Building on the techniques practised on the sausage dog in the previous project, this project will demonstrate how to stabilize and embroider the subject before attaching it to the base layer.

Acrobat Mouse

It was a past student of mine who introduced me to textile foils. Finding new materials and techniques can be so inspiring and exploring their properties so that they will complement your way of working can be really rewarding.

Meet the author: Mrs Bertimus

Letitia Thompson, better known as Mrs Bertimus, has worked in art education for over 20 years and loves meeting kindred spirits on her painting, mixed media and textiles workshops. Being able to watch nature on her doorstep has permeated the imagery and storytelling of Letitia’s work, and she continues to explore her make-believe world of painted, collaged and stitched characters.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Search Press (28 May 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 128 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 178221822X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1782218227
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 21.92 x 0.97 x 28.09 cm