Books by Katie Essam

Experiment and discover your own artistic voice and style! Providing a wealth of inspiration for those new to textile art as well as experienced textile artists, Free Motion Embroidery guides you through the entire creative process – from finding inspiration to designing your own stitched artworks.This revised and updated standalone title is drawn from Katie Essam''s successful Layered and Stitched Pictures in The Textile Artist series. Incorporating a new bonus project, this book showcases Katie''s free machine embroidery techniques. Her fresh, modern style uses unique combinations of traditional techniques, and in this book she shows how to create beautiful textile art inspired by the beauty in everyday objects.With eight projects and lots of inspirational finished artworks to provide inspiration, this book teaches the reader how to draw inspiration from the animals, birds, gardens, beach huts and scenes that surround us all; and use that inspiration as fuel to create gorgeous stitched pictures.