Machine Knitting Monthly
This book gives embroiderers of all abilities a bumper selection of over 70 iron-on designs, plus six new bonus designs. Using the iron-on transfers is very simple and each design can be used, stored then reused multiple times.
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The transfers are all helpfully grouped in chapters corresponding to the books they are taken from. Ms Burr makes it plain at the beginning that no instructions are given here, you can find those in the books, but a transfer is just an outline for embroidering over so you can interpret them as you wish. The motifs depict a range of subjects from flora and fauna (the author lives in South Africa) to people, Jacobean style images and several stylized designs that are reminiscent of art deco.
To give you inspiration and get the colours right on the wildlife and flowers there are coloured photographs of all the designs in their worked state. There are also six bonus transfers which are not shown stitched but as coloured drawings. For anybody new to transfers there is a page clearly showing how to use them in staged photographs. Thats it you are on your own or referring to your copies of the books. Most of the images are perfect for the thread painting technique, but as they are simple shapes it would be easy and fun to do your own thing. They vary in size from whole page to smaller images fitted two or four on a page roughly 10 x 8. A useful resource for embroiderers and guaranteed to make you want the books they are taken from if you dont have them already!
Needle 'n Thread
Trish Burrs Embroidery Transfers is one of the many new embroidery books published by Search Press this year, as part of the 50th Anniversary celebration. They sent me an advanced copy, which took me a full three minutes to read.
And thats a good thing because this isnt a book you have to read. Its a book of iron-on embroidery transfers featuring designs from Trish Burrs embroidery books, plus a few bonus designs.
The whole point of this book is to allow you to jump straight into the fun part of embroidery without having to worry about the difficulties of hand-transferring the designs.
At the beginning of the book, youll find full colour images of the embroideries that are featured in Trishs many books.
There are no instructions for the embroideries in this book. If you need instructions, youll find all the projects detailed in Trishs original books.
From Trishs iconic needlepainting projects featuring flowers and birds, to her miniature projects, to her whitework with colour projects youll find them all ready and waiting for your iron!
There are instructions on how to use the iron-ons (you can get about three good impressions from them, so they can be re-used), and then the iron-ons themselves, which are nicely spaced on the pages so that theyre not fiddly to cut out.
The back cover of the book is a handy folder, so that you can tuck your cut iron-ons safely inside for future use.
If you struggle with transferring embroidery designs, if you long to work Trishs designs but are hesitant because of the transfer process, this problem goes completely away with this book!
