Hand-Stitched Landscapes & Flowers

Create beautiful landscapes and flowers using handstitching and only six simple stitches.Handstitched Landscapes and Flowers is a beautiful exploration of the potential of embroidery in depicting the natural world.Katrina Witten, who is a regular on crafts channel Hochanda, uses just six simple stitches, delicate embellishments and an array of techniques and fabrics to portray pastoral scenes of fields, flowers and creatures with eye-catching three-dimensional effects. There are ten detailed step-by-step projects that depict, among others, a hedgerow, a bluebell-emblazoned woodland, sunflowers, a butterfly, a poppy field and a summer scene of buddleia and bees.