Craft Focus - April/May 2022 (Issue 90)

SOLOCRAFTS The design studio at Luca-S has been busy, with a small snapshot of its latest releases shown here. Intricate detailed designs with stunning landscapes and mixed with simple fun pieces which would make great nursery pictures, or with names added, birth samplers to record those precious moments. Their kits feature high quality materials, with Zweigart fabrics and Anchor stranded cottons, plus clear, large print charts as standard. Luca-S has also recently introduced sturdier boxed packaging for its larger designs, which look great and help keep kits looking neat on shop shelves. To see the full range from Luca-S please visit the website. +44 (0)161 464 7313 sales@solocrafts.com www.solocrafts.com DAVID & CHARLES Slow down and embroider your way through the changing seasons with Paint with Thread, the debut book from embroidery artist and rising star Emillie Ferris. Needlepainting, also known as thread painting or silk shading, is a form of embroidery that creates a realistic, lifelike effect using a single strand of thread and one simple stitch – the ‘long and short’ stitch. You can create gorgeous colour gradients, magical details and flowing stitch directions that are perfect if you want to embroider flora and fauna. In this richly illustrated step-by-step guide, self-taught embroidery artist Emillie Ferris shows you how to pick up a needle and thread in the same way as a paintbrush to create strokes of colour and bring images to life on fabric. Inspired by nature and the changing seasons, Emillie has created five new and exclusive patterns for the book, four that reflect each season in turn and one special design that brings the natural year together into one showstopper embroidery. The book features five iron-on transfers for Emillie’s original patterns which retail individually for £15. +44 (0)1392 790 650 https://davidandcharles.com F.A. EDMUNDS & CO., INC. F.A. Edmunds combined its Quilter’s Wonder and its Stitcher’s Wonder frames to create the Stitch Master! This floor standing frame will hold stretcher bars, quilt hoops (round or oval) and scroll frames. It even works with competitors frames. The stand will adjust from 8in to as wide as 27in and the universal clamps on each end will hold almost any frame. The base adjusts from 16in to as tall as 37.5in. dennis@frankedmunds.com https://faedmunds.com 78

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