Kids' Embroidery: Projects for Kids of All Ages

kristin nicholas john gruen

An introductory embroidery guide for kids includes fifteen easy-to-follow projects, supported by full color photographs, step-by-step instructions and educational sidebars about the history of embroidery around the world.

Genres craftsnonfictionsewing

144 pages, Hardcover

First published September 14,2004

This edition

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Published: September 14, 2004 by Harry N. Abrams
ISBN: 9781584793663
ASIN: 158479366X
Language: English

About the author

kristin nicholas

KRISTIN NICHOLAS is a knitwear and stitchery designer who lives in western Massachusetts on a working sheep farm with her husband and daughter and 400 sheep, three border collies, two great pyrenees guard dogs, ten cats, thirty chickens, one guard donkey, and one guard llama.

Kristin learned to knit and sew when she was nine years old. Following her passion for creating, she received a BS from University of Delaware and MS from Colorado State University in Textiles and Clothing. She has worked in the American needlework industry for over 25 years as a creative director and a stitchery and knitwear designer. She is the author of 8 books including Color By Kristin, Kristin Knits, Colorful Stitchery, Kids Embroidery, Knitting for Baby, and more. Her specialty is working with color and she is known as a color expert within the needlework industry. She has her own line of yarn named “Julia”, after her daughter, which is distributed throughout North America by Nashua Handknits (a Division of Westminster Fibers). She has been also been featured as a knitting expert on PBS's Knit and Crochet Now for the three seasons.

Kristin's home and work have been featured in Country Home, Country Living, Vogue Knitting, Interweave Knits, Knitters Magazine, and many other national publications.

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