Award-Winning Embroidery Artist Releases New Edition of Guide to Hand-Stitching Flowers

GUELPH, Ontario - July 11, 2016 - PRLog -- The 2nd edition of 'Stitching Idyllic: Hand Stitch Recognizable Spring Flowers' is a remake of Ann Bernard's 2011 original and the perfect partner to her 2014 'Stitching Idyllic: Hand Stitch Recognizable Summer Flowers.' In these delightful compendia, Bernard shares her many years of acclaimed embroidery experience to guide readers in creating magnificent gardens sewn with needle and thread.

Designed for both novice and skilled embroiderers, 'Spring Flowers' gives detailed information on selecting and preparing fabrics and threads along with step-by-step instructions for the four basic stitches used in this book. According to one reviewer, Alison Jackson, "It is, as if you are taking a class, one on one, with Ann in your own living room."

With diagrams and photos to illustrate the needlework, Bernard walks the reader through fields of dandelions, blooming bluebells, and pink and yellow tulips, all created using simple stitches and colors true to nature. Together with 'Summer Flowers,' these guides show how to embroider over 40 different plants and trees.

'Spring Flowers' also features Bernard's recommendations for arranging a beautiful garden scene as well as other embroidered craft ideas and a conversion chart for matching colors among select thread manufacturers.

As reviewer Bridget O'Brien writes, "Once in a lifetime, a keen student obtains an authoritative text which becomes a firm foundation for everything that follows. In the world of botanical embroidery - this is that text."

'Stitching Idyllic: Hand Stitch Recognizable Spring Flowers, 2nd Edition' is published in ebook format by eBookIt.com and is now available at popular online retailers, including Amazon.com and Apple iBookstore.

Ann Bernard is available for interviews.

Contact:
Ann Bernard
ann@annbernard.com

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About the Author
Ann Bernard trained at the Royal School of Needlework and has been a member of the Toronto Guild of Stitchery. She is currently a member of the Embroiderers' Association of Canada, the Canadian Embroiderers' Guild, Guelph, and the Arboretum Broiderers. Her work has been exhibited in Canada and in the United States, and she is a past recipient of Canada's Leonida Leatherdale Award.

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