Lillie London's Needlework Book

Lillie London

Description

Achieve an authentic vintage look by taking lessons with Lillie London, the 1930s embroidery expert. Practice your new skills with 88 projects. Create beautiful tablecloths, tea cosies, guest towels and cushions. Make lovely embroidered pyjamas and underwear in pre-war styles. Craft accessories like bags and belts for yourself, as well as toys for children, gifts for new parents and home-made presents for family members. This book is ideal for the beginner who wants to broaden their embroidery horizons.Lillie London's Needlework Book offers you: 88 vintage projects from the 1930s, illustrated with photographs, line drawings and diagrams; 12 lessons in basic embroidery techniques, wool work and simple toy making. Lillie London gives lessons in a range of skills from cut-work to Italian quilting, needleweaving, petit point and rug-making. The final two lessons give guidance on the basics of embroidery and the most popular stitches used at the time. Words of wisdom from the past that chime with modern trends and fashions - Lillie London speaks to you across the decades with helpful advice, clear instructions and clever ideas.Lillie London's Needlework Book provides inspiration for your vintage homestyling, useful guidance to help you upcycle vintage items and new skills that can be employed to give your twenty-first century embroidery a 1930s twist.

Informations

• Publié par: RHE Media Limited
• Date de parution: 15 octobre 2014
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781910226216
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 4 Mo

Extrait

Contents
Author’s Foreword
Publisher’s Foreword
Introduction to the Vintage Words of Wisdom series
Project 1: Many Coloured Daisies on a Linen Cushion
Project 2: A Set of Mats for the Dressing Table
Project 3: Settee and Chairbacks In Cool-Looking Green Linen Sewn With a Jacobean Design
Project 4: A Sundial Design in Cross-Stitch
Project 5: Flower Posies against a Cross-Stitch Background Adorn this Tea Cloth
Project 6: Demure Flower Borders Adorn These Guest Towels
Project 7: Loop Stitch - So Simple to Work - Adorns This Effective Tea Cloth
Project 8: A Cross-Stitch Background Helps To Make an Unusual Design for Crash Chairbacks
Project 9: A Very Quickly Worked Luncheon Set in an Unusual Design
Project 10: Sewn on Poplin: A Runner and Nightdress Case to Match
Project 11: This Blue Runner is Embroidered with Shaded Threads
Project 12: Hemstitched and Embroidered in Delicate Shades
Project 13: Tea Cloth and Cosy Cover Worked with Hemstitching and Simple Embroidery
Project 14: Flower Baskets on Colour-Bordered Guest Towels
Project 15: An Exquisite Supper Cloth for Bridge Evenings
Project 16: Cross-Stitch on a Gay Little Morning Set
Project 17: Interesting Stitches Adorn a Linen Cushion
Project 18: A Tea Cloth Gay with “Lazy Daisies”
Project 19: Just Simple Darning Stitch But it Looks so Effective on Cushion and Curtains
Project 20: Net Darning Makes an Exquisite Cushion and Curtain Set
Project 21: Tea Cloth, Tray Cloth and Cosy All to Match
Project 22: A Square Cushion Needlewoven with Wool
Project 23: A Crash Bag with Bands of Needleweaving to hold your Sewing and Accessories
Project 24: Needleweaving and Simple Darning Stitch are attractive on An Oblong Cushion
Project 25: Bands of Needleweaving on a Table Scarf
Lillie London Lesson 1 : A Lesson in Needleweaving and Some Simple Needleweaving Designs
Project 26: An Effective Runner Quickly Worked With Wool
Project 27: Hemstitching and Applique Combine to make this Charming Set of Supper Cloth and Napkins
Project 28: Chairback - and Settee-Back to Match
Project 29: Just Simple Running Stitch - But used so effectively on this Cushion
Project 30: A Runner Worked with Wool In Interesting Stitches
Project 31: A Trio of Pochettes Worked in Tapestry Stitches
Lillie London Lesson 2: A Lesson in Petit Point Work
Project 32: Simple Cut-Work Shows to Advantage in this Effective Chairback
Project 33: Cut-Work and Applique Make This Unusual Cushion and its Matching Chairbacks
Project 34: A Modern Dressing Table Set in Cut-Work
Lillie London Lesson 3: A Lesson in Simple Cut-Work
Project 35: Cut-Work is Lovely on Household Linens
Project 36: The Charm of Coloured Applique - A Beautiful Set of Tea Cloth, Tray Cloth, and Cosy - All Worked in Coloured Applique on Fine Linen
Project 37: Cut-Work and Applique Join Forces In an Unusual Table Runner
Lillie London Lesson 4: A Lesson in Applique
Project 38: Pillowcases In White Embroidery and Broderie Anglaise
Project 39: All Sewn in Lazy-Daisy Stitch - Tea Cloth, Cosy Cover, and Table Mat
Project 40: A Very Quickly-Worked Morning Set
Project 41: An Unusual Chairback Sewn With Several Most Interesting Stitches
Project 42: Flower-Sewn Mats For The Luncheon Table
Project 43: Round Nightdress Sachets Are New and Smart
Project 44: A Dainty Tea Apron Of Finest Organdie
Project 45: A Morning Set In Embroidered Organdie
Project 46: The Special Charm of One-Colour Embroidery is shown in this Cross-Stitched Tea Cloth
Project 47: In Jacobean Design - A Smart Table Runner
Project 48: Garden Aprons In Serviceable Crash and with Big Roomy Pockets
Project 49: Two Lovely Examples of Effective Stitchery
Project 50: A 19-Piece Luncheon Set Embroidered on White Linen
Project 51: Sachets - One for Handkerchiefs and One for Pyjamas
Project 52: An Effective Cushion Cover In Linen Crash
Project 53: A Square Tea Cosy in Italian Quilting
Project 54: Baby’s Matinee Jacket - In Italian Quilting
Project 55: Two Cushions of Quilted Silk
Project 56: A Quilted Nightdress Sachet
Project 57: Italian Quilting In Delicate Colourings Makes This Cot or Pram Cover
Lillie London Lesson 5: Quilting is Delightfully Easy To Do - A Lesson In Italian Quilting
Project 58: A Nightdress Trimmed With Cut-Work
Project 59: Pyjamas - One Set Embroidered the Other Trimmed with Applique
Project 60: Simple Cross-Stitch on a Vest and Knicker Set
Project 61: Cut-Out Petticoat and Knickers with Lace Edgings and Dainty Touches of Embroidery
Project 62: Touches of Embroidery Give Added Beauty to “Step-ins” and Dance Set
Project 63: A Cut-Out Satin Dressing Jacket
Project 64: A Nightdress with Magyar Sleeves
Project 65: Appliqued on Net is the Square Neckline of this Charming Puff-Sleeved Nightdress
Project 66: A Two-Piece Set “For Best”
Project 67: A Deep-Pile Rug In Lovely Colourings
Project 68: Modern Designs for the Modern Home
Project 69: The Charm of A Semi-Circular Rug
Project 70: A Quickly-Worked Rug In Unusual Design
Lillie London Lesson 6: A Lesson In Deep Pile Rug Making
Project 71: Light-Weight Rugs Worked In Cross-Stitch
Project 72: A Tapestry Cosy Worked with Wool
Project 73: A Roomy Beach Bag Gaily Embroidered With Wool
Project 74: Bags in Tapestry Stitches
Project 75: Tapestry Stool-Tops A New Note in Decoration
Lillie London Lesson 7: Tapestry Stitches Used for the Gnome Wool Articles on the previous pages
Project 76: Amusing as Toys or Mascots These Funny Little Figures Are Made of Wire and Scraps of Wool
Lillie London Lesson 8: How to Make Toys with Wire and Wool
Project 77: Quaint Little Soft Toys To Make with Wool
Lillie London Lesson 9: Clipped Wool Balls and Toys
Project 78: Who Would Guess This Little Fellow Was A Nightdress Case?
Project 79: A Noah’s Ark Makes Such an Exciting Pyjama Case for the Children
Project 80: Gay Feeders [Bibs] for the Very Small People
Project 81: Amusing Embroideries For the Nursery
Project 82: Embroidered Pictures Are New and Very Charming
Project 83: Here Is Another Picture In Quaint Design and Gay with Colour
Project 84: Medallions of Petit Point Make Most Unusual Book-Ends
Project 85: Galleons All Worked In Back Stitch Make another Attractive Pair of Book-Ends
Project 86: Such a Useful Work Bag Embroidered in Wool and with Wooden Handles
Project 87: Made With Macramé Twine
Project 88: Many Lovely Stitches in Wool Embroidery Make This Chairback
Lillie London Lesson 10: Effective Stitches to Use for Wool Embroidery
Lillie London Lesson 11: First Steps in Embroidery
Lillie London Lesson 12: Embroidery Stitches


AUTHOR’S FOREWORD
At this time, when embroidery and fancy sewing of all descriptions take up such a large share of our time and interest, I am very pleased to be able to offer to you this book on the subject.
Embroidery has undoubtedly gained a fresh lease of life, and women everywhere are realising the pleasure and contentment to be found in the creating of beautiful hand-work, and the joy of having one’s own work all about one in the home.
Not everyone can afford to spend a great deal of time on fine stitchery, and not everyone cares to tackle large, intricate, and difficult pieces of work. My aim, therefore, with this book has been to give you embroideries that are as beautiful and attractive as modem art can make them, but which can be worked both easily and quickly.
Nothing that is shown in these pages is too difficult for even the comparatively inexperienced embroidress to tackle, and every stitch and process that is used in every article shown is described in detail and by sketch or photograph.
The planning and preparing of these embroideries and the presenting of them to your notice through these pages has been marvellously interesting–I hope that to you the results will be of equal interest. I know that the embroidering and the sewing of those articles you choose for yourselves will be.
Yours very sincerely,
Lillie London


PUBLISHER’S FOREWORD
Lillie London’s Needlework Book was first published in the 1930s. Part promotional publication and part beginner’s guide to embroidery, it was produced to sell ‘ready to sew’ needlework patterns and materials (fabric, stencils, thread, etc.) to homemakers between the wars. Selling kits in this way was not new, even in the 1930s. Such promotional methods enabled the average housewife to tap into the latest fashion trends and reproduce the modern style in her own home.
Obviously, these ready-to-sew kits are not available today. However, the instructions given in the book are very detailed, including guidance on colour schemes and lessons on the techniques used to create the projects described. Therefore, we have adapted the book so that it provides 88 projects and 12 ‘Lillie London Lessons’ for inspiration, instruction and information. What better way is there to achieve a 1930s look for your vintage home than by creating items based on original projects from the time?
The book covers everything from basic coloured embroidery to Broderie Anglaise, taking in cut-work and appliqué, as well as tapestry work, deep-pile rug-making, underwear and toys for children. There are embroidery designs for cushions, tablecloths, towels, aprons, pyjama cases, nightdresses and pillow cases. The projects are made up using a wide range of interesting stitches and guidance on these is provided in 12 lessons that cover techniques for all the projects including Italian quilting, needleweaving, petit point and tapestry stitches, as well as t