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    Learn Swedish Weaving & Huck Embroidery
    Learn Swedish Weaving & Huck Embroidery
    Learn Swedish Weaving & Huck Embroidery
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    Learn Swedish Weaving & Huck Embroidery

    By Katherine Kennedy

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    Filled with step-by-step photos, color stitch charts, and informative drawings, this book teaches a simple, straightforward needlework form that can be mastered and enjoyed by all ages: Swedish weaving, also known as Huck embroidery. It takes crafters through the techniques used to create projects from simple bookmarks to jar cozies, table runners, decorative towels, gift bags, and even an afghan. Once embroiderers get started with this fun technique, they won't want to stop. This wonderful traditional craft is experiencing a resurgence in popularity and is being used to make all kinds of beautiful projects to decorate the home or to give as gifts that will be treasured for a lifetime.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAnnies
    Release dateMar 1, 2015
    ISBN9781596359079
    Learn Swedish Weaving & Huck Embroidery

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      Learn Swedish Weaving & Huck Embroidery - Katherine Kennedy

      Pattern Services and Revisions

      If you are an Annie’s customer and have a question about the instructions on a pattern you have purchased, please visit:

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      Introduction

      Traditional Swedish weaving, also known as huck weaving or huck embroidery, became popular in the United States in the 1930s and 40s when crafters started using embroidery floss to decorate or enhance their white linens, particularly their huck towels. This wonderful, almost lost, needlework form is experiencing a resurgence in popularity and is being used to make not only towels, but also table runners, afghans, pillows, place mats, curtains and more. Not only huck toweling, but almost any even-weave fabric or even store-bought items like pillows, rugs, tablecloths and blankets can be embellished or created using the Swedish weaving technique.

      Swedish weaving, as beautiful as it looks, is quite easy to do. It is a very simple and straightforward form of needlework and can be mastered and enjoyed by all ages. I still marvel at how quickly I can stitch up a design and how lovely the finished piece looks. When looking at finished pieces, people often have a hard time believing it is as easy to do as I tell them it is. And you will find, once you try it, that you, too, will be amazed at how fast and easy it is.

      The stitching is done by picking up the vertical threads, called floats, on the right side of the fabric so the stitching does not show on the back. Another great advantage to Swedish weaving is that the designs can be done on almost any fabric without adjusting the patterns. You are not limited to just the fabric suggested in the basic instructions. For example, the alphabets can be used to personalize anything, even an afghan.

      All of the designs in this book are suitable for everyone from the beginner to the more experienced stitcher. You may want to get started trying one of the smaller projects, but you will soon discover that the only difference between a small project and a large one is the amount of time, fabric and thread or yarn required.

      Meet the Designer

      Katherine has done needlework, mostly cross-stitch, for as long as she can remember. But when she discovered Swedish weave, or huck embroidery, Katherine just knew this was what she was meant to do. Her other passion is creating, so when she couldn’t find patterns for this newfound needlework, making her own designs was the natural thing to do.

      Within a short time, she was selling items at shows and in local Scandinavian shops. Katherine also started teaching, and it was her students who really encouraged her to look into publishing her design patterns. Just over a year later, her first book Easy-Does-It Swedish Weave Towels was published. She now has a full line of chart packs and kits that are distributed worldwide.

      Many times I have had someone respond wistfully that they remember their mother or grandmother doing this type of needlework, perhaps even teaching them the basics, and they haven’t seen it for years. Just as exciting, though, is the reaction I get from those who are discovering Swedish weave for the first time, says Katherine.

      She has been asked if she ever stitches just for fun, or is it always for publication or sale. Katherine answers that it is always for fun, because she never tires of Swedish weave, whether it is creating a new design, stitching one of her many designs, or charting patterns.

      Katherine has been inspired by some of the old pattern books from the 1930s and ’40s that she has been able to find. Most of her designs are original with a contemporary flare; even so, she also tries to maintain a more traditional look.

      She and her husband, Mark, live in Minnesota. They have 6 children and 3 grandchildren, whom they love spending time with. To see more of Katherine’s patterns, go to her website: www.swedishweavedesigns.com.

      Table of Contents

      Marquise Bookmark

      Hearts Bookmark

      Waves Bookmark

      Forget-Me-Not Jar Cozy

      Twin Peaks

      Tea Time

      Little Boxes

      Cascade

      Waterfall Gift Bag

      Personalized Infant Towel

      Full Circle Afghan

      Full Circle Place Mat

      General Instructions

      Photo Index

      General Instructions

      The colorful patterns of Swedish weaving, also known as huck

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