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Playful Stitch: Joyful journeys in textile art

By (author) Deena Beverley

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A sumptuous and vividly colourful journey through Deena Beverleyâ€™s imaginative take on textile art, in which she shares her passion for playfulness in all things stitched and mixed media. Here Deena shares the key ingredient in her creative practice: play â€“ making this book a practical route map to reconnect readers with the simple, childlike pleasure of joyful experimentation and unpressured making. With chapters including â€˜The Nature Tableâ€™, â€˜The Toyboxâ€™, â€˜The Dressing-Up Boxâ€™, â€˜The Stationery Cupboardâ€™, â€˜Storytimeâ€™ and â€˜Messy Playâ€™, Deena shares how she makes creative play a part of her daily life, turning it into beautiful, award-winning hand- and machine-embroidered, painted, quilted and appliquÃ©d work. Packed with simple techniques which not only inject a shot of new energy into familiar materials, but which are, crucially, fun to do, Deena describes this book as â€˜messy play for grownupsâ€™ with detours to the dressing-up box, a rummage through the toy box and a deep delve into the stationery cupboard, via story time. This palate-cleansing dopamine hit of colour and texture is a creative holiday for the soul and Deenaâ€™s distinctively rich, illustrative, compelling narrative work which readers know and love, will inspire many happy hours of playful making.