Bøger af Ann Benson

Dozens of iconic antique and traditional woven rug patterns and designs in beautifully detailed colored charts for needlepoint, loom beading, cross stitch, bead crochet, mosaics-any charted technique. Ann Benson brings her unique design and tech skills to a stunning collection of full-color stitching/weaving patterns. Each pattern includes a full overview with sectioned enlargements, color recommendations and materials amounts for wool, floss, seed and cylinder beads, and suggestions for use. These easy-to-read charted patterns are great for needlepoint, beaded needlepoint, looming, counted cross stitch, bead crochet, mosaics, and more.

Ann Benson shares the professional methods and practices that will bring your bead embroidery to a whole new level. Using her unique design and technological skills, Ann brings you over one hundred designs, motifs, and templates that you can develop according to your own color taste and end use. Combine, crop, repeat, recolor and resize, it's all up to you!Explore the many materials and surfaces on which you can do bead embroidery. Learn how to apply your design onto your chosen surface using different techniques, from simple sketching to high-end technology. Professional finishing techniques and edgings will make your pieces shine. Discover ways to incorporate non-traditional materials into your designs, including fibers, paper craft elements and hidden treasures from your local hardware store. There's no limit to what you can use and no limit to what you can achieve. Ann will be your guide.

Though they're long gone, Gina Bugbee still toils in the shadows of the twin towers, struggling to reclaim the clear blue sky of that day-five years before-when the future arrived. Then on a winter night, the future arrives again, this time in the form of a baffling stranger who alters her path in unexpected ways, and nothing is ever the same.