Complete guide to needlework by Reader's…

Complete guide to needlework (original 1979; edition 1981)

by Reader's Digest editors

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More than twenty-six hundred drawings and photographs and clearly presented directions provide an understanding of the techniques involved in numerous traditional needlework crafts, including embroidery, quilting, applique, macrame, knitting, and rug hooking.

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Title:	Complete guide to needlework
Authors:	Reader's Digest editors
Info:	Readers Digest (1981), Hardcover
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Tags:	@library, crochet, needlework, crafts, hobbies, handmade

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Reader's Digest Complete Guide to Needlework by Reader's Digest (1979)

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CathyLockhart | Sep 30, 2022 |

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PTArts | Oct 6, 2021 |

Best of the overall crafting books. Good instructions and pictures. Contains many knitting patterns and embroidery stitches. This is a very detailed for an overview of crafting book. Includes some projects. (

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loispauley | Sep 3, 2016 |

Likely the only book you'll ever need to learn needlework. (

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ShelleyAlberta | Jun 4, 2016 |

This was a fine reference work for its time for those who didn't want separate works for various crafts they weren't really interested in. In the meantime I have much better books for those I am interested in, and the projects are painfully dated.

But above all, computers (scanners, printers, internet) have changed needlework a lot. How we create, aquire and use patterns has changed. The patterns are so much more legible! A book from the days before the web can no longer claim to be complete.

Discarded.

MarthaJeanne | Apr 20, 2016 |

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Colton, Virginia	Editor	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Short, Eirian	Editor	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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Reader's Digest Complete Guide to Needlework

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Complete Guide to Needlework

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1979

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Embroidery offers an enormous variety of finished effects, and that calls for a wide range of threads.

Embroidery tools and materials : threads.

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More than twenty-six hundred drawings and photographs and clearly presented directions provide an understanding of the techniques involved in numerous traditional needlework crafts, including embroidery, quilting, applique, macrame, knitting, and rug hooking.

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