THE NEW CREWEL book (In Stock!)

Katherine Shaughnessy learned to embroider at the age of six and hasn't stopped sewing since. She received her Master of Fine Arts in Fiber Arts from the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. She started her own company, Wool & Hoop, after having trouble finding cool crewel embroidery kits. The Wall Street Journal praised her "mission to revitalize the craft among young adults."

One look at these pages and you know that this isn't your grandmother's crewel, but a hip, contemporary update that will have everyone reaching for a needle and thread. And these projects are easy, too, because crewel has no counting, no grids, and no cross-stitch--just beautiful free-form embroidery. Dive right in, guided by a basics chapter that explains how to do