Di van Niekerk Knihy

Guides you through 12 beautiful projects in ribbon embroidery ranging from the simplistic to more challenging styles.

Intended for ribbon embroidery and stumpwork enthusiasts, this book contains ideas and techniques to help crafters learn how to combine ribbon embroidery and stumpwork with their crafts. It has 17 panels in a sampler and 60 different elements in the design with a stitch gallery to guide you. The embroidery is shown with photographs.

Cicely Mary Barker's beloved 'Flower Fairies' are an enduring vision of elegance and beauty. Her exquisitely delicate and intricate colour illustrations have captivated children and adults alike for more than 85 years. Now, for the first time, five of her beautiful fairies are introduced not only to ribbon embroidery and stumpwork fans, but to all needle crafters who enjoy creative three-dimensional embroidery. With numerous new ideas and techniques, this book has been designed to appeal to both beginners and advanced embroiderers.Easy-to-follow, close-up photography and step-by-step instructions will show you how to: embroider the exquisite flowers and leaves in silk and organza ribbon; make the delicate stumpwork wings in organza and silky threads; use organza and silk ribbon to make applique leaves and petals; make charming stumpwork insects; dress the fairies in layers of organza and embroider their hair; embroider the fairies' clothing in long and short stitch - the easy way; and, create three-dimensional designs using colour, texture and shapes. The five 'Flower Fairies' taught in this book are the Periwinkle Fairy, Black Medick Fairies, White Clover Fairy, Stork's Bill Fairy and the Red Clover Fairy.

In The Snow Sleeper, the art and meaning of storytelling is illuminated in four magically interwoven tales of friendship. In each, a narrator's narrow vision is gradually broadened and transformed into piercing self-knowledge.

From a bold new voice in literary fiction comes a compelling story of three mothers whose lives intersect during a generation-defining period in South Africa's history. The year is 1994, and South Africa is in political turmoil as its first democratic election looms. Against a backdrop of apartheid and racial violence, traumatized artist Yolanda Petersen returns from the Appalachian foothills to the land of her youth at the behest of her mother. While there Yolanda longs to reconnect with her estranged daughter, Ingrid, the product of an illegal mixed-race affair with a white man. But Ingrid is missing, and as Yolanda quickly discovers, she isn't the only woman in Cape Town desperate to protect her own. Ingrid's very existence is proof of a white man's crime, and that man's mother will do anything--even kill--to ensure the truth remains buried. An evocative debut novel set during a defining period in history, A Conspiracy of Mothers tells a gripping story of love and betrayal from multiple perspectives while deftly balancing the painful legacy of apartheid with the trials of motherhood.

Learn how to make delicate, beautiful and realistic silk roses and organza leaves, and have fun making them for a friend, or a special project.

A new edition of the best-selling book by renowned ribbon designer and embroider Di van Niekerk. There are over 30 models to teach you how to make beautiful embroidery and stumpwork motifs, while the techniques are explained with step-by-step photographs and instructions.

Learn and create 16 beautiful embroidered silk and felt pieces by renowned artist Di van Nierkerk.

Cover title: Monograms & words: in ribbon embroidery: 26 beautiful step-by-step monograms and quick and easy projects.