Why Not Embroider Boxes? - Tapa blanda

Lace-makers will find boxes specifically designed for the storage of bobbins and threads. There is an octagonal box for craft tools and a hexagonal box covered in bees! Each of the new designs has been given a special embroidery finish, using numerous different techniques including stumpwork, ribbon, shading, bagello, machine embroidery and quilting, beading Casalguidi and, of course, Daphne's own "Colour through Gold". Fully illustrated in colour.

More than a decade has passed now since Daphne Ashby and Jackie Woolsey met in the Cheshire FWI's demonstration marquee on a muddy field! Much has happened to change both their lives since then through their involvement with the world of embroidery and this book is their sixth together, based on Daphne's skills with the needle and Jackie's ability to build the text and graphics around the resulting embroideries. Despite now residing on opposite sides of England and enjoying totally independant lives, they continue to lecture and teach together and can often be seen demonstrating at national needlework exhibitions. Probably teaching brings them both the greatest pleasure, hence the enjoyment they obtain from packing as much information and practical advice as possible into their books.