Lynette's Best-Loved Stitcheries

Four Seasons Wall Hanging, 27" x 24", is on the cover

Lynette Anderson offers stitchers a new book filled with country cottage ambiance, with sweet bungalows and blooming gardens, angelic gardeners and adorable four-legged friends. She is inspired by the British country village of her childhood.

Lynette's Best-Loved Stitcheries: 13 Cottage-Style Projects You'll Adore includes
projects perfect for gifting and quilts to enhance your home's walls. Lynette loves to make projects that can be used every day.

Meadow Cottage Tote, 14" x 14". The tote includes inside pockets.

Sunshine and Flowers Pillow, 15 1/2" x 15 1/2"

I so love the use of applique and buttons and embellishments incorporated into the designs.

Lynette shares her techniques for transferring and marking embroidery designs, how to prevent thread shadowing, and includes a stitch guide. She explains how to use variegated floss successfully.

Count Your Blessings Mini-Quilt, 9 1/2" x 14"

Prairie Points enhance Lynette's needlecase holder and the scissors holder has a tassel cord, seen below. You learn so many techniques in this book!

Springtime Needle Case and Scissors Holder

Lynette shares her technique for giving fabric a vintage look by speckling, seen below in the Redwork pillows.

Redwork Pillows, 8 1/2" x 10"

Lynette offers a tutorial on her favorite applique techniques, turned-edge and Apliquick. The patterns are reversed so fusible applique can also be used.

I enjoy needle-turn applique myself but was interested to learn about Apliquick which uses semi-water-soluble paper and special rods to hold and roll turned edges of the applique pieces. Every stage of the process is shown in photographs and instructions.

One-Stitch-At-A-Time Sewing addy, 8" x 6" x 3 3/4"

The sewing caddy, above, has a hexagon back! Lynette includes English Paper Pieced hexagon instructions with photographs.

Potting Shed Journal Cover, 6 3/4" x 8 3/4", and Pencil Case, 8" x 5"

I love the oval insert on the Potting Shed Journal Cover, above. The lighter background for the embroidery makes it pop and the darker fabric frames it beautifully. The Hexie Pencil Case could also hold your needlework tools and threads!

Home Sweet Home Redwork,  3" x 6 1/2"

The book is sold as softcover and ebook with patterns available online to print.

I was given access to a free ebook by the publisher in exchange for a fair and unbiased review.

Visit Lynette's blog to keep up on her latest designs and news:
https://lynetteandersondesigns.typepad.com/
Lynette owns the Little Quilt Store in Australia where you can purchase her patterns and the tools, threads, and embellishments shown in the projects.
https://www.littlequiltstore.com.au/collections/all

Lynette's Best-Loved Stitcheries
by Lynette Anderson
Martingale
ISBN: 9781683560128
$27.99 softcover (-$8 ebook)
Publication Date: July 1st, 2019