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A SKETCH IN TIME
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- Digital Edition – Read Online + Download Today Jan and Jean explore different formats, papers and media for creating sketchbooks and discuss a variety of methods for their use.
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A TALE OF TWO STITCHES
- £7.50
- Digital Edition – Read Online + Download Today Jan and Jean show the wonderful effects that may be achieved using two of their favourite stitches: Sorbello and Lock Stitch.
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BONDING AND BEYOND
- £7.50
- Digital Edition – Read Online + Download Today Learn how to bond materials together, using a fusible web or powder. Colour Bondaweb, trap and layer fabrics and create bonded beads and brooches, too!
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COLOUR EXPLORATIONS
- £7.50
- Focuses on two colours to demonstrate fresh ideas on how to use and incorporate colour in your own work.
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CONNECTIONS: LINKS, JOINS AND NETWORKS
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- This book demonstrates innovative approaches to constructing, joining and stitching a wide range of textile surfaces.
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CONSTRUCTIONS
- £7.50
- A fresh look at structures and buildings as a source for inspiration and the creation of exciting textiles.
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CONVERSATIONS WITH CONSTANCE
- £7.50
- Constance Howard (1910-2000) was the foremost pioneer of creative embroidery in Great Britain in the second half of the 20th century. This review of her life and work includes personal memories she shared with the authors in the last years of her life.
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DOUBLE VISION: PERSONAL APPROACHES
- £7.50
- Digital Edition – Read Online + Download Today Jan and Jean talk about how to select a theme, difficulties in starting new work, and the use of diaries and notebooks to develop your work.
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EMBELLISH AND ENRICH
- £7.50
- Decorating and adorning fabric surfaces using an embellishing machine, hand and machine stitching, beading and other mixed media.
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FRAGILE FABRICS
- £7.50
- Innovative approaches to creating delicate and unique fabrics using a variety of techniques and design sources.
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FRAME PACK (8″ x 10″)
- £14.00
- Featuring Jan Beaney and Jean Littlejohn’s favourite frame, needle, sample piece of fabric, postcards of their work + the Stitch Booklet showing 16 hand embroidery stitches.
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GARDENS AND MORE
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- Digital Edition – Read Online + Download Today This book inspires you to look at gardens with fresh eyes, interpret unusual viewpoints or individual plants in fabric and thread.
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GIVING PLEASURE
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- Digital Edition – Read Online + Download Today An ideal book to help create special / unique gifts for special celebrations and occasions using embroidery and decorated papers.
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GRIDS TO STITCH
- £7.50
- This book shows you a variety of grids as a source for design and shows how they can be converted into wonderful works of textile art.
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IN ACTION
- £28.00
- In this 2-hour stitch and mixed media workshop Jan Beaney and Jean Littlejohn will lead you through a variety of embroidery and mixed media techniques including: developing a composition / journaling, fabric paints, fabric dyes, embellishing, knitting, foiling, soluble film, hand and machine stitching. UK/EU CUSTOMERS: In Action is available with Unlimited Online Streaming (Worldwide) and as a DVD (USA…
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IN MOTION
- £24.95
- Follow along as Jan Beaney and Jean Littlejohn explore the power and versatility of the sewing machine in creating a variety of stitch and embroidery textiles. A wonderful introduction to free motion machine embroidery for all skill levels and artists.
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IN STITCHES
- £24.95
- Jan Beaney & Jean Littlejohn provide an inspirational guide to hand embroidery stitching, using traditional and contemporary stitch techniques along the way.
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INTERPRETATIONS: LOOK, RECORD, DRAW
- £28.00
- In this workshop we become aware of what attracts us, collect ideas for later development, and develop what we saw and recorded into finished drawings and illustrations. We explore many techniques including drawing, painting, collage and making marks. As Jan and Jean love to say — “the more you look, the more you see”.
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JAN BEANEY: ARTIST PROFILE
- £19.99
- Part of the Maker Profile Series, an intimate portrait of embroidery and stitch textile artist Jan Beaney, including some wonderful insight into her inspiration and methods.
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JEAN LITTLEJOHN: ARTIST PROFILE
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- PAL Format Only Available. Part of the Maker Profile Series, an intimate portrait of embroidery and stitch textile artist Jean Littlejohn, including some wonderful insight into her inspiration and methods.
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JUST ONE MORE THING…REVIEW, REVISIT, REMIND
- £14.00
- Jan and Jean tackle their most commonly asked questions in this book which offers hints and reminders on a variety of embroidery and mixed media subjects.
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LOCATION, LOCATION
- £7.50
- See design opportunities in the places around you, showing locations to stimulate you, materials and tools to excite you, and interpretations to inspire you.
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MEMORY CLOTHS: COMPILED & CONSTRUCTED
- £12.50
- Stimulate your imagination and create starting points with memory cloths, used for developing themes and bodies of work.
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NEW DIMENSIONS IN HAND AND MACHINE EMBROIDERY
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- This book explores two innovative approaches to combining hand and machine stitching which offer wonderful opportunities for textural surfaces.
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NO STONE UNTURNED
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- Digital Edition – Read Online + Download Today From gemstones to fossils: this book shows design, stitch and fabric interpretations inspired by stones, rocks and minerals.
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OVER THE LINE: COUCHING REDISCOVERED
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- The book suggests a range of approaches with couching embroidery stitches and shows and encourages experiments, incorporating new and exciting materials.
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RED
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- The colour Red in its many shades and hues provides the focus for a range of inspirational samples from diverse and unexpected sources.
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Reflections, Echoes & Aspirations
- £15.00
- The book, Reflections, Echoes and Aspirations chronicles the sketch and stitch journey of Jan Beaney and Jean Littlejohn through the ups and downs of the Covid pandemic. Drawing inspiration from the moment, they doubled down on their creativity, producing a body of work that was inspired by their immediate surroundings, reflective moments, detailed perception of the mundane and ordinary, and…
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SEDUCTIVE SURFACES
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- Digital Edition – Read Online + Download Today See the many sumptuous textile surfaces that can be created using traditional stitching combined with the modern media available in the market today.
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SEEING DOUBLE: BEANEY & LITTLEJOHN
- £19.99
- Watch Jan and Jean working from the same design source but creating very different pieces of work.See their design processes, sketchbooks and the artists working with various media and techniques.
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SEEING DOUBLE: DEVELOPING PERSONAL THEMES
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- This book answers the questions of ’how do you get started’ and ’where do you get your ideas from’, encouraging the reader to take their own personal paths.
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SMALL EMBROIDERY FRAME (5″ x 7″)
- £10.00
- Our small embroidery/stitch frame is made of durable plastic, and features a snap grip locking fabric in place while you are working at home, in the studio or on the go.
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STITCH BOOKLET
- £2.50
- 16 different hand embroidery stitches and various ways to interpret them. Illustrated.
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STITCH RHYTHMS AND PATTERNS
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- Observe the amazing rhythms and patterns of ever day life; develop designs and textile art using exciting techniques, combining innovation and tradition.
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STITCHSCAPES
- £19.99
- Whether land, sea, or sky -- Jan and Jean reveal their design processes and techniques in a way that can only stimulate the reader to look and create.
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TREES AS A THEME
- £7.50
- Trees are a wonderful source of inspiration for design. In this book we learn how to look and record what we see -- such as textures, colours, patterns and shapes, and interpret these into creating our own unique designs.
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VANISHING ACT: MACHINE EMBROIDERY ON SOLUBLE FABRICS
- £7.50
- Digital Edition – Read Online + Download Today BOOK 1 from Jan Beaney and Jean Littlejohn in the Double Trouble Stitch series, the exciting process of producing machine-made lace, edges, dangles and trims by embroidering onto soluble fabric.
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VOLUPTUOUS VELVET
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- Instruction on working with, coloring, bonding and stitching velvet pile fabrics. Adding and removing colour (discharge techniques) are discussed in detail.
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