Monday, January 15, 2007
Sublime Stitching
I got this book for Christmas (I asked for it) and was really excited: an embroidery book by Jenny Hart who makes cool stuff like this and this!
I guess I should have explored the Sublime Stitching website before asking for the book, cause I was expecting something else than what the book actually was. The website claims that "there are no geese in bonnets". And it's true, there isn't a goose or a bonnet in sight. But there sure is enough of cute (the bad cute, in my very humble opinion) things in the book: Kittens! Sundaes! Dogs! Drinks!
I SO wasn't expecting that after looking at the Jenny Hart website. I was expecting a book that would inspire me, you know, lots of pictures of interesting things to embroider. Not a book virtually lacking in photos, with most of the pages being transfers and the rest being an embroidery primer.
Hopefully, Jenny Hart does another book sometime, one that is more like her own work and less like this book. But perhaps I'm not the "target" for this book. I know how to embroider and I don't need transfers or anybody else's ideas for what to make...
Anyway, I'm swapping the book for the Happy Hooker - maybe I'll finally learn to crochet! ;-)Labels: books, embroidery, swaps
I got this book for Christmas (I asked for it) and was really excited: an embroidery book by Jenny Hart who makes cool stuff like this and this!I guess I should have explored the Sublime Stitching website before asking for the book, cause I was expecting something else than what the book actually was. The website claims that "there are no geese in bonnets". And it's true, there isn't a goose or a bonnet in sight. But there sure is enough of cute (the bad cute, in my very humble opinion) things in the book: Kittens! Sundaes! Dogs! Drinks!
I SO wasn't expecting that after looking at the Jenny Hart website. I was expecting a book that would inspire me, you know, lots of pictures of interesting things to embroider. Not a book virtually lacking in photos, with most of the pages being transfers and the rest being an embroidery primer.
Hopefully, Jenny Hart does another book sometime, one that is more like her own work and less like this book. But perhaps I'm not the "target" for this book. I know how to embroider and I don't need transfers or anybody else's ideas for what to make...
Anyway, I'm swapping the book for the Happy Hooker - maybe I'll finally learn to crochet! ;-)
Labels: books, embroidery, swaps
scribbled by Carina 1/15/2007 05:41:00 PM
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