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Mystical Stitches: Embroidery for Personal Empowerment and Magical Embellishment, Hardback Book

Mystical Stitches: Embroidery for Personal Empowerment and Magical Embellishment Hardback

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This gorgeous embroidery book features more than 100 original designs inspired by a colorful folk art aesthetic and infused with metaphysical meaning.

How-to instructions allow readers to combine and stitch each symbol to create unique embroidered objects of personal significance. Hand embroidery can be a joyous respite from busy daily life.

It is an exploration of material, an invitation to slow down, and it allows time for contemplation.

Mystical Stitches combines this beloved and accessible craft with a spiritual element, introducing more than 100 different symbols readers can use to create personal icons to wear or embellish items in the home.

Christi Johnson offers patterns inspired by botanicals, animals, numbers, the cosmos, earth elements, and mythological icons for novice or well-practiced crafters to combine into talismans with personal meaning.

Johnson's folk art style is vibrant and unintimidating and provides a framework for bringing spiritual elements into physical form.

In addition to basic techniques, an overview of material options, and an illustrated encyclopedia of stitches, the extensive treasury of symbols is lavishly photographed in hand-stitched, full-colour spreads that will inspire readers to create personalised designs to stitch on clothes, hang on the wall, place on an altar, carry with them, or display in a place of prominence. AUTHOR: Christi Johnson creates mystical garments that blend elements of botanical dyes with handcrafted stitches.

The resulting textile talismans honor the body, its boundaries, its extensions, and its relations to the world and cosmos around us.

She works from the belief that through self-expression, we discover our power to transform our worlds.

Raised in tropical Florida, Johnson studied Fashion Design at Otis College of Art and Design.

She worked in the fashion industry in Los Angeles for nearly a decade, most notably designing "cosmically crafted" limited-edition embroideries for boutique brand Coast-Wide's denim workwear, and now lives in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York.

As a teacher, Johnson also offers workshops in natural dyeing and embroidery and has created kits and booklets for students and DIYers.

Her garments, booklets, kits, and embroidered artwork have sold at maker studios and boutiques across the nation.

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