The Maison Sajou Stitching Guide contains twenty embroidered initiatives starting from mattress linens and tablecloths to ebook covers and monograms, all meant to convey subtle French style into your own home.

Even probably the most inexperienced sewer will benefit from the delicate needlework of monograms, pointelle borders, and drawn threadwork utilizing easy step sequences, patterns, and templates. Whereas the beautiful designs of those crafts harken again to a time when stitching was a standard pastime for a lot of ladies, even probably the most sophisticated will take hours quite than days to finish.

Lucinda Ganderton has printed extensively about needlework and stitching, together with The Liberty Guide of Dwelling Stitching (2011), which she collaborated on with Liberty of London. She resides in the UK.