Delightful selection of designs by notable American needlework designer. Includes many motifs: birds, baskets, silhouettes, sentimental sayings, church medallions, much more. 8 plates of color motifs. Introduction. Dozens of charts.

125 charming patterns for lighthouses, gulls, sailboats, anchors, more. Diagrams, color-coded illustrations for creating wall hangings, cushion covers, decorating T-shirts, other items.

Embroiderers will welcome this delightful collection of charted designs by Gerda Bengtsson, considered one of the greatest living designers of counted cross-stitch designs. Here are more than 40 exquisite florals, including such favorites as Buttercups, Anemone, Pansies, Spring Flowers, Iceland Poppy, Crowberry, Lapland Rhododendron, Wild Fruit, Sweet Violet, Lady's Mantle, Stone Bramble, and Hare's-Foot Clover. All of the designs are color keyed to both D.M.C. and Danish Flower Thread embroidery floss, and because the chart makes it easy to vary the size of the design they can be used to decorate anything from small pillows to bedspreads. The patterns lend themselves to use not only in cross-stitch, but also needlepoint, rug-hooking, crochet, and other forms of counted thread embroidery.

A century ago, a folk art enthusiast collected these ornate, highly stylized designs from among a now-dispersed community of ethnic Germans residing in Transylvania. Nearly 200 designs include birds, flowers, mythical creatures, and other motifs in styles ranging from simple to complex and in themes from medieval to modern. Easily adapted to other crafts projects.

Presents two hundred charted needlework designs by Anne Orr, including one hundred in color, featuring flowers, children, animals, and other motifs.

Forty-three carefully designed color-coded charts depict bizarre mythical creatures that abound in Celtic art. Complete instructions and easy-to-follow diagrams enable even beginning needlecrafters to create a wealth of fabulous patterns that will embellish clothing, linens, and other domestic items.

Over 100 glorious needlework designs in varied sizes: Lightning Whelk, Green Turban, Australian Trumpet, Panther Cowrie, dozens more. Instructions. Color keys. Diagrams.

Over 50 color-coded charts of needlework designs with ancient Egyptian themes: sarcophagus, Egyptian cat, scarab, winged serpent, many more. Instructions, 16 how-to diagrams.

Charted designs for 29 distinctive alphabets. Letters on balloons, trains, more. Ideal for counted cross-stich, needlepoint. Instructions, color keys.