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{giveaway} Embroidery: Learn in a Weekend

Embroidery: Learn in a Weekend

The traditional craft of embroidery has gained a new excitement as a new generation of stitchers bring contemporary style to subjects like houseplants and modern interiors. I am delighted to tell you more about Embroidery: Learn in a Weekend. This smart little book, written with beginners in mind, perfectly captures that aesthetic and gives you the skills you need to succeed.

Embroidery: Learn in a Weekend

Embroidery covers the materials you need to get going, simple introductions to the key stitches, and ten contemporary projects that evolve in complexity. Each project has a template to be copied, enabling the reader to get started straight away and achieve great results in a short time. Brand-new step-by-step photography makes the whole process easy: and after only a couple of happy days with your needle and thread, you’ll find that you’re making designs to be proud of.

Embroidery: Learn in a Weekend

Alisha and Roisin McDonnell built Sew Botanical, their Etsy store, where they sell their own beautiful embroidery kits, which carries hundreds of rave reviews for their contemporary designs.

With straightforward introductions to embroidery’s key stitches and ten contemporary projects to follow, this smart little book gives you the skills you need to succeed.

Embroidery: Learn in a Weekend by Roisin and Alisha Mcdonnell, published by Skittle Dog Books, an imprint of Thames & Hudson Ltd, on 27th October 2023.

Win Embroidery: Learn in a Weekend

We have teamed up with Skittle Dog Books, an imprint of Thames & Hudson Ltd, and I am delighted to offer readers of the gingerbread house the chance to win Embroidery: Learn in a Weekend. To enter my giveaway you must answer the question via the Rafflecopter widget below and leave a comment to win, there are some bonus entries too. The giveaway is open to those with a UK postal address only and ends on 10th December at midnight. The winners name will appear on this post. Good luck

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51 Comments

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    Jo m welsh
    November 20, 2023 at 5:36 pm

    There are 10 contemporary projects that feature in this

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    Laura Wheatley
    November 20, 2023 at 5:40 pm

    10 🙂 I already do cross sttitch and crochet so I would love to learn a new skill <3

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    Siobhan N
    November 20, 2023 at 6:16 pm

    It contains 10 contemporary projects!

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    Lisa Davies
    November 21, 2023 at 8:00 am

    Ten contemporary projects feature in Embroidery: Learn in a Weekend.

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    Emilia Nastaly-Howard
    November 21, 2023 at 10:38 am

    10 projects

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    Alex Porter
    November 21, 2023 at 10:40 am

    10

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      Sharon Hirst
      November 21, 2023 at 2:30 pm

      10 contemporary projects

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    Alice Dixon
    November 21, 2023 at 11:00 am

    It contains 10 projects

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    Paul Bingham
    November 21, 2023 at 12:22 pm

    10 projects

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    Laura F
    November 21, 2023 at 4:13 pm

    There are 10 projects ♥

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    Paul Planck
    November 21, 2023 at 6:43 pm

    10 contemporary projects

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    Hayley F
    November 21, 2023 at 7:16 pm

    Ten projects x

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    Keith Hunt
    November 21, 2023 at 8:15 pm

    The answer is 10

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    Alex Fowler
    November 21, 2023 at 9:04 pm

    Ten projects

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    Amy Bondoc
    November 22, 2023 at 7:13 am

    It contains 10 contemporary projects!

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    Corinne Peat
    November 22, 2023 at 11:24 am

    Ten projects!

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    Jessica Agyin
    November 22, 2023 at 2:52 pm

    10 contemporary projects

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    Natalie Burgess
    November 22, 2023 at 10:48 pm

    10

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    Geri Gregg
    November 23, 2023 at 6:09 pm

    There are 10 lovely contemporary projects in the book

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    MICHELLE O'NEILL
    November 24, 2023 at 7:31 am

    It contains 10 contemporary projects!

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    Harriet
    November 25, 2023 at 11:44 am

    10

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    Laura Corrall
    November 26, 2023 at 7:20 pm

    10

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    Lynn Woodcock
    November 27, 2023 at 4:40 pm

    10 contemporary projects feature in Embroidery: Learn in a Weekend

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    lynn neal
    November 27, 2023 at 9:41 pm

    10 Projects!

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    Anita Roberts
    November 27, 2023 at 11:50 pm

    10

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    dana
    November 28, 2023 at 4:20 pm

    there are 10 contemporary projects

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    Alison Johnson
    November 30, 2023 at 11:01 pm

    10 Contemporary projects

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    melanie stirling
    December 1, 2023 at 10:20 am

    There are 10 contemporary projects.

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    Helen Thurston
    December 2, 2023 at 12:15 pm

    ten contemporary projects

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    Susie Wilkinson
    December 2, 2023 at 5:21 pm

    10

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    Kim Carberry
    December 2, 2023 at 9:55 pm

    There are 10 projects x

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    Debbie Jackson
    December 3, 2023 at 7:36 am

    10 projects

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    Zoe B
    December 4, 2023 at 2:15 pm

    The are 10 projects in Embroidery: Learn in a weekend

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    lisa tebbutt
    December 5, 2023 at 12:34 am

    contains 10 contemporary projects

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    Nicki Ramsay
    December 5, 2023 at 2:29 pm

    The book contains 10 contemporary projects and they look amazing. I’d love to give them a go.

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    Christine Constable
    December 5, 2023 at 8:32 pm

    10 contemporary projects, which would suit me down to the ground.

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    Alex
    December 8, 2023 at 9:11 am

    10 contemporary projects 😊

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    Ruth cartwright
    December 8, 2023 at 12:14 pm

    10 projects

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    Fiona King
    December 8, 2023 at 8:22 pm

    10 contemporary projects 🙂

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    vicki reis
    December 9, 2023 at 8:55 am

    10

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    Kim Murray
    December 9, 2023 at 3:47 pm

    10

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    Rebecca Hobbs
    December 9, 2023 at 10:44 pm

    10. I have done cross stitch before but never tried embroidery

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    Jean Anderson
    December 9, 2023 at 11:23 pm

    There are 10 projects and it would be just great to undertake all ten of them. Embroidery is an amazing skill and art form. Great to see what was considered an old fashioned skill being revived and made modern and contemporary again.

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    Tina Hall
    December 10, 2023 at 2:25 am

    10 projects

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    Danielle lattimore
    December 10, 2023 at 8:39 am

    There are 10 projects

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    Mary Baldwin
    December 10, 2023 at 9:57 am

    10 projects – great idea to cover in a weekend as that’s enough time to get people hooked (!) but not too long that they get distracted.

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    Carole Nott
    December 10, 2023 at 12:20 pm

    10 projects

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    sharon martin
    December 10, 2023 at 4:34 pm

    10 projects

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    Natasha Dawn Mairs
    December 10, 2023 at 5:35 pm

    There are 10 contemporary products in the books

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    robert sharman
    December 10, 2023 at 7:35 pm

    10 projects

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