Enchanting Embroidery Designs: Whimsical Animal and Plant Motifs to Stitch

By MiW Morita

Enchanting Embroidery Designs invites you to create your own world using bright thread colors and imaginative stitches.

Full of motifs that are both simple and playful, from zany crocodiles, and cuddly cats to big-eared bats and stealthy ravens. This book invites you to be creative with its whimsical designs and step-by-step instructions--whether you use these projects as visible mending techniques or simply to add interest to a piece. The sweet scenes and cute characters are full of life and texture, making them at home on your favorite clothing, home accessories or wall hangings.

The unusual and versatile designs in this book include:

• Cheery flowers on a broach
• Pretty pine trees on hanging ornaments
• A colorful curly sheep
• Fluffy and stormy clouds
• Bushy-tailed foxes
• Moss on stone and microorganisms in Petri dishes
• And more!

Simple how-tos take you through every recommended stitch, while a section on combining colors will inspire you to try mixing and matching to create something new. There's also a section on turning your stitchery into embellishments you can use, wear and share. Put your imagination and hands to work with the help of this inspiring embroidery book.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
• Release date: Aug 25, 2020
• ISBN: 9781462921850

Book preview

Chapter 1

Embroidery Motifs for a Dozen Tales

1The Alligator is Beautiful on a Moonlit Night

2A World that is White

3The Colorful Herd of Sheep

4Carrying Clouds

5The Pointy Trees

6Multi Purpose Cat Pockets

7Moss Stones on the Side of the Road

8The Dark Night

9Micro Micro Microbes

10 Anywhere Flower Beds

11 Please, Mr. Cuckoo

12 The One-Horned Bear from the Land of Pink and the One-Horned Bear from the Land of Gray

1The Alligator is Beautiful on a Moonlit Night

Once upon a time, on a quiet night,

an alligator was hiding in the dark waters of a marsh.

For some reason, on this night,

he felt uneasiness in his heart.

Reluctantly, because he had to,

he decided to slowly, slowly, slowly

come up to the water‘s surface.

First, he climbed up on a small rock

and heaved a deep, mournful sigh.

His body was green, like the moss of the marsh.

It was a dark green, like a sigh.

Next, the alligator climbed onto a larger rock

and stuck his eyes and nose up from the water.

His body turned into the clear blue color of a clear mist.

It turned into a fun color, like the color of curiosity.

Diagrams and instructions on page 58

How to make a brooch on page 90

Eventually, he climbed up on the biggest rock there

and was bathed in the silver moonlight.

His body shone with the same silver color as that moonlight.

He was beautiful, and he felt that way too.

Gradually, the uneasiness in the alligator‘s heart eased.

Eventually, he no longer cared about it.

As time passed, he wrapped all that surrounded him

with silver and blue and green and the songs he hummed to himself.

Hoi hoi la la la, I am gorgeous.

Hoi hoi la la la, I am beautiful.

Tra la la la la.

Hoi hoi la la la, I am gorgeous.

Hoi hoi la la la, I am beautiful.

Tra la la la la.

2A World that is White

The pure white northern foxes

walked along