Stitch Dictionary

We are going to have book sessions here at my blog in the future. It is because the financial things are still going downwards and I know many are stuggling with daily issues. We are used to it that the industry feeds us with the idea craft making must cost. Despite the original idea was to save money and recycle.

In the future I am going to introduce you my bookshelf and even more if needed. That is because then you will find out what kind of these books are, are they useful for you, worth of buying (new or old) or just worth of peeking in at the local library.

 

I am using the original names of the books and English & Finnish ones too if they are translated. That's because book covers may look different despite the contents are the same. The original name you can find from the first pages of the book. When you are tracking a book, use the author's name and then check it up with the title.

 The 1st book to introduce is my bible:

Stitch Dictionary by Lucinda Ganderton

(Finnish: Pykäpistoista linnunsilmiin)

I have talked about it before but want to lift it up again because it is such a great production. I used the copy of the library for years until I bought my own version at e-bay. And I was very naughty to customise it especially just for me and my very own use. There has not been a second of regret of doing it what I did. 

All worth of buying if you stitch a lot or just want to learn. This book has it all. No charts, no samples, just the stitches and information how to do them all. If you like just cross stitches perhaps this book makes you curious and fall in love with many others.

 

Naughty me

Today I was very extremely naughty. If you look at the picture above you may notice what I mean. I wrote on a pages of a book!!!! This is Lucinda Ganderton's Stitch Dictionary which I bought from ebay some time ago. Yesterday I was at the library and found (again) the Finnish version of it. I borrowed it once again. I wrote the Finnish names of the stitches on the book. I did it to avoid confusion and to make my job easier. Now I don't need to seek matching names anymore. It's all written down there. :) The book of our library I will return as neat as I borrowed it. From now on I will be holding it less.

This book above is my project from the art college times. It was dated on 1997. In Finland we don't have very strong embroidery culture. If you want to make something else than the basic stitches you really need to investigate how to do it. The situation is better now on 2014 but not as much has happen as it could have. I use internet and English sources a lot. Basic things are in Finnish but there's a lot I know only in English. In my native language there still is not names for everything what comes to stitching and ebroidering; materials, methods and features still have unknown untranslated terms.

On 1997 at the art college we were allowed to pick up a theme which we wanted to investigate and learn. Nobody else but me wanted to do it all about stitching. My aim was to make a guide book for myself about the different stitches, learn them and -in future- to be easier to use them again. I collected the information from many sources. Internet was not that common yet and there was hardly nothing on it about it in Finnish. It was hard to find the information but at the end the book was finished and so useful. I have been using it a lot and some of my friends have borrowed it. It includes two books -the samples and instructions. Despite I now have Lucinda's book I still find this project work useful.

Mail for me

It is finally mine, all mine and nobody's else. I finally managed to get myself the bible I have dreamed about. It is Stitch Dictionary by Lucinda Ganderton. It is second hand but in better shape than the version at our local library. I didn't even pay much of it. I am so so extremely happy about it! The postman brought it to me today. The best start for the weekend I think. Me and my party with THE BOOK!

I have tried almost all the stitches and techniques described in the book. But it is excellent dictionary about it all in one cover. The pictures and instructions are good and easy to understand. I warmly recommend anyone to get it (even used) if interested about different kind of stitching.

Third day of December

This is an excellent guide book to all kind of stitching. It is Stitch Dictionary by Lucinda Ganderton. More words are not needed to praise its collection. If anything else into it is needed it is the tranlations of the stitch names to several languages! Proper colour pictures and instructions are great. Even a novise will survive with this book in the jungle of stitching.