Creative Stitches for Contemporary Embroidery, Volume 2

If you love taking a simple needle and thread and seeing just how far you can push them, Creative Stitches for Contemporary Embroidery, Volume 2 by Sharon Boggon is packed with inspiration.

Featuring 114 embroidery stitches and techniques, this beautifully illustrated reference encourages you to move beyond simply learning a stitch and start experimenting with what that stitch can become.

Sharon Boggon explores ways to layer, weave, loop, twist and combine stitches, transforming familiar hand embroidery into wonderfully tactile surfaces and decorative details. Clear, close-up photography helps you see exactly how the stitches are formed, making even more elaborate techniques feel approachable.

This is particularly useful for crazy quilting, where seam treatments and embellishment can become an art form in themselves, but the ideas extend beautifully into slow stitching, textile art, contemporary embroidery, fabric journals and mixed-media projects.

Rather than telling you there is only one way to stitch, Sharon encourages experimentation. Change the thread. Alter the scale. Add beads. Combine techniques. Build one stitch upon another. It's the sort of book you can return to whenever you need a little spark of inspiration.

Inside You'll Discover

• 114 embroidery stitches and techniques
• Clear close-up photography for visual guidance
• Ideas for combining and layering stitches
• Decorative seam treatments for crazy quilting
• Ways to introduce texture and movement into hand stitching
• Inspiration for experimenting with different threads and embellishments
• Techniques suitable for both traditional and contemporary projects

Perfect For

Crazy quilting, hand embroidery, slow stitching, textile art, fabric journals, decorative mending, mixed-media work and anyone who simply loves exploring what can be created with needle and thread.

Whether you're looking for a new stitch, an interesting seam treatment or simply wondering “What could I try next?”, this is the kind of reference book that can stay beside your stitching chair and keep giving you new ideas.