Cat Lady Embroidery: 380 Ways to Stitch a Cat

by Applemints

Overview

Fat, striped, sweet, or grumpy, this book offers 380 embroidery stitch patterns for cat lovers. Each of the 15 themed pattern sets offers a variety of designs that range from simple to complex and includes photos of the finished patterns, a stitch guide, and full-size templates.

From kitty corners and borders to classic felines and festive holiday cats, Cat Lady Embroidery has a cat to embroider for every occasion. With an overview of tools and materials, instructions on getting started, a thread conversion chart, and a step-by-step review of the 15 basic embroidery stitches used, this book is perfect for embroiderers of all skill levels. 

Created by a group of amazingly talented artists, this collection contains a variety of different embroidery styles, so there are folk art–inspired cats, cartoon-style cats, trendy cat-themed patches, and realistic pet portrait'style motifs. There’s even a project inspiration gallery showcasing wonderful ways to use these motifs—maybe you’ll be inspired to embroider a cat peeking out from a shirt pocket or smiling up at you from a pair of slippers. 

Inspire your inner cat lady with these and more original designs:

• Breed-specific feline faces
• Stretching, sleeping, hiding, eating, and playing cats
• Mummy, vampire, and witch cats for Halloween
• Santa, reindeer, and angel cats for Christmas
• Sailor, baker, musician, and other dressed-up cats
• Cat alphabets in three different styles
• Cats with plants and flowers

Fun designs and clear instructions make this book a must have for any cat-loving embroidery enthusiast's library.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781589239647
Publisher:	Quarry Books
Publication date:	07/03/2018
Pages:	120
Sales rank:	627,666
Product dimensions:	8.20(w) x 10.10(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Applemints, a publisher based in Tokyo, Japan, is well known for their craft titles.

Table of Contents

Curious Cats 6

Feline Faces 8

Heads & Tails 10

Cat Antics 12

Chatty Cats 14

Holiday Cats 16

Flora & Fauna Felines 18

Pampered Pussycats 20

Everyday Shenanigans 22

Cat Characters 24

Fast Friends 26

Folk Cats 28

Alpha-Cats 30

Kitty Corners 34

Kitty Borders 36

Project Inspiration Gallery 38

Tools & Materials 42

Getting Started 44

Embroidery Stitch Guide 48

How to Use This Book 54

Thread Conversion Chart 55

Motifs & Templates 56

Editorial Reviews

07/02/2018
This delectable guide, imported from Japan, features an impressive variety of cat motifs for embroiderers of all levels and one of the best embroidery stitch guides available. The first half of the book catalogs hundreds of designs in styles that include realistic cats, cartoon cats, cats curled in letters for monogramming, and more. Some motifs, such as Pampered Pussycats, a series of 17 simple line-plotted cats designed by Kayoko Terasawa, are better suited for beginners, while others, such as Tomoko Watabe’s intricate scenes of a cat and bird playing together, are more advanced. There’s a brief section on tools and materials, followed by tips for transferring designs, preparing the floss, threading the needle, and knotting thread. Also helpful are pictures of fronts and backs, templates, and a thread conversion chart. The array of designs and the clear illustrations make this an irresistibly cute embroidery book for all skill sets. (July)

Publishers Weekly

A whopping 380 embroidery patterns, exclusively for moggies. What’s not to love?” —Love Sewing

A ideal instruction manual for embroidery beginners, as well as anyone looking for fun and simple patterns, the original designs and clear instructions comprising Cat Lady Embroidery is a 'must have' for any embroidery enthusiasts library and is unreservedly recommended for personal and community library needlecraft instructional reference collections.—Midwest Book Review

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