Tag Archives: embroidery

True confessions time.  I’m addicted.  I’m piling up embroidery supplies like there is no tomorrow.  I’m dreaming up projects faster than I can stitch (and considering that I’m just learning, that’s pretty slowly!).   And of course, because I am learning, I need educational materials.  That’s right books…..oh, sweet books.  One of my big lifelong loves.  I have always loved reading.  My mother and father were big readers when I was growing up, and I think that planted the seed.  Before I started school I used see them reading all the time, and when I asked for them to show me how, they promised I would be taught at school. When I came home from my first day at kindergarten, I was not a happy camper.  My mother, fearing a the worst – a child who would forever hate going to school – asked what was wrong.  Hands on hips, I angrily complained “They didn’t teach me how to read!”

Of course I’m absolutely relishing the opportunity to have a new topic to research and am having a grand old time finding interesting books to add to my collection.  I haven’t really come across any good guides to embroidery-related books, so I thought I’d share my discoveries here.

One of the first books I bought was what I think has to be one of the all-time classics – Mary Thomas’s Dictionary Of Embroidery Stitches.

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