Creative machine embroidery - Linda Miller

Filled with exciting projects, this book provides a first step fortextile artists looking to learn all the methods and techniques theyneed to begin 'painting with threads' using their own domestic sewingmachine. This is a classic handbook, with chapters covering allthe basics from tools and materials, methods and techniques, through tousing your machine, experimenting with threads, fabrics and colours,creating your own designs and finishing and presenting your work. Itwill inspire enthusiastic beginners with limited textiles skills, aswell as engaging those more experienced textile artists who wish tounderstand and adopt new techniques. The core of this book is aseries of technique-based masterclasses, with step-by-stepphotographs.