Secondhand Create Your Own Cross Stitch: How to Turn Your Design Ideas Into Reality

In this delightful book, Shirley Watts you how to convert your own personal cross stitch subject into a successful finished project. She guides the reader through the steps of choosing colors and fabrics, and explains how to incorporate sketches and photographs into cross stitch design. Also included are over thirty of the author's own delightful cross stitch patterns.

A guide to designing your own cross stitch charts. It begins by discussing likely source material, such as photographs and sketches, and shows how these can be converted into charts. Advice is provided on how to use colour and achieve the effects of light.