Customize Your Cross-Stitch: Friends and Family: Learn to customize, prepare, stitch, and finish your...

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Lizzy Dabczynski-Bean The Team at Stitch People

Customize Your Cross-Stitch

Friends and Family: Learn to customize, prepare, stitch, and finish your very own personalized...

Lizzy Dabczynski-Bean, The Team at Stitch People

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Walter Foster Publishing
05 December 2023

Portraits in art; Art techniques & principles; Embroidery crafts

Make your very own personalized cross-stitch pieces by combining these ready-to-go patterns with the included tips and tricks for customization.

Customize Your Cross-Stitch: Friends

Family by Lizzy Dabczynski-Bean and the team at Stitch People is the perfect how-to guide, whether you are an experienced cross-stitcher who wants to create personalized pieces or a beginner who has never before held a needle and thread. This helpful guide introduces you to the basics of the craft with easy-to-follow written directions and photographic instructions. You can learn everything from using the tools of the trade to reading a pattern, creating basic stitches, and tweaking an already-existing design. The beautiful, modern designs in this book are accompanied by simple instructions appropriate for all skill levels. The easy-to-follow lessons-complete with patterns, detailed instructions, and photographs-ensure success in customizing patterns to create your very own unique pieces. Discover how to swap out colors, alter hairstyles, change clothing, and much more, to make your scene depict you and your own friends and family! Learn to stitch and customize patterns of these adorable scenes:

A couple sitting on a porch

A family portrait with a pet

Friends on a road trip

A meeting for coffee at the cafe

A baby birth announcement

A family sledding scene

A family in the garden

A pool party

A family picnic at the park

An inspiration gallery at the end includes full-color images of additional finished pieces to inspire you to continue your learning with even more patterns from Stitch People, which has offered patterns and instruction for do-it-yourself cross-stitched family portraits since 2014. Create custom cross-stitch art that will be treasured for generations with this easy-to-follow guide.

By: Lizzy Dabczynski-Bean, The Team at Stitch People
Imprint: Walter Foster Publishing
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 279mm, Width: 216mm,
Weight: 567g
ISBN: 9780760385357
ISBN 10: 0760385351
Pages: 112
Publication Date: 05 December 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Welcome! About the Book Tools & Materials Preparing to Stitch How to Cross-Stitch Other Stitching Techniques Customize Your Cross-Stitch Patterns Family Night In, Baby Announcement, A Happy Home, Yoga Class, Road Trip Grandparent Appreciation Scenes, Grandparent Appreciation Individuals Coffee Break, Wintertime Fun, Springtime Fun, Summertime Fun, Autumn Fun Finishing a Portrait in a Hoop Resources About Stitch People & the Author Stitchers

Lizzy Dabczynski-Bean (Dabczynski pronounced dab-chin-ski) started her service business Stitch People in 2013. The first Stitch People portraits were Christmas gifts for her family in 2011; now countless customized portraits have been stitched for families all over the world based off of her designs. Stitch People is now a wife-and-husband team headed by Lizzy and has expanded its pattern collections with digital patterns available for purchase and download online at StitchPeople.com. Julian Odessa is the design lead and resident Australian at Stitch People. His tale is a common one: boy starts out as a musician, becomes a cancer researcher, and then returns to the arts to work from home in his comfy pants, helping people reconnect with their creativity while keeping the coffee bean supply chain well-funded. Find Julian's article segment for CrossStitcher Magazine UK, where he looks at the relationship between art and mindfulness. Follow Julian on Instagram @jojodessa

Reviews for Customize Your Cross-Stitch: Friends and Family: Learn to customize, prepare, stitch, and finish your very own personalized cross-stitch creations

"“Readers will adore this.” * Publishers Weekly * ""Simply stated, Customize Your Cross-Stitch: Friends & Family by needlecraft expert Lizzy Dabczynski-Bean is fun, informatively instructive, and a highly prized pick."" * Midwest Book Review *"