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Do you need help with blackwork?

book-cover (30K) Have you been trying to find instructions on blackwork for beginners?

Has it been like looking for a needle in a haystack? Those intricate, lace-like patterns look like they take just ages to stitch don't they? And you don't even as want to think just about how you can get the back to look as nice as the front!

It's time to let you in on a secret.

Blackwork actually isn't as complex as it looks! If you have tried my free blackwork patterns as a taste tester you may be beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Blackwork is like thing else if you discover the techniques behind it, everything starts to do sense.

So wherever are you going to discover those all-important techniques? Guess what, this ebook is a great place to start. I wrote it for folk just like you, if:

  • You have tried blackwork before but got dispiritedly lost
  • You want to discover blackwork for beginners in the easiest possible way
  • You have done cross stitch for years and are looking for thing some to stitch
  • Your friend recently created a beautiful blackwork piece and you are green with envy

Let's sit and stitch together

Of course it would-be be great if you lived about the corner from me and could attend one of my blackwork workshops. I could show you the private secrets to devising your activity reversible, introduce you to shading techniques and answer your questions right there and then.

But don't worry if you live miles away, "Blackwork for beginners" is the next better thing to having me help you in person. Full of information that I have passed on to students during my workshops, it is about as although I am sitting there with you. Have you detected the expression "A picture's worth a thousand words"? Well there are lots of photos and diagrams in the book that wish help you see that blackwork is as easy as 1 2 3.

Talking of 1 2 3 (or ABC) let me tell you that I 1st saw person creating a beautiful blackwork frog once I was at school. I was intrigued and wanted to have a go myself. But, believe it or not, it took me another 20 years before I distinct to tackle blackwork!

What ready-made me give it a go? Well I had been designing cross stitch for a number of magazines and one editor asked me if I would-be create a blackwork design for the next issue. Of course, once I had tried it, I was hooked!

What's in the book?

So what do you get? I'll instructions you as to what threads and fabrics you can use for blackwork, I'll lead you through the maze and explain how a blackwork design is created, show you once and wherever to add a glimmer of gold or silver, help you add shading to a blackwork design to give depth and dimension and how to use multi-colored threads to their better advantage and lots more.

Learn from a friend

The way that Carol describes the minutest detail you just cognize that she has ‘been there, ready-made that mistake’.

You feel as if you are reading comments from a friend instead of a teaching manual.
Jean Hilton, Lord Robartes’ Regiment - The Sealed Knot

Ask the designer

Take it from me, you wish be off and running before you cognize it. But I won't leave it there! If you get stuck I wish be at the another end of the phone or you can email me and I'll help you out. After all there's nothing nicer than talking sewing with like-minded friends is there?

Get started right away with eight projects

You want more? Well the icing on the cake is that I have enclosed 8 projects in the book, each with step by step instructions, to give you thing to get your teeth into. And once you've completed them? See below . . .


beginner-blackwork (7K) blackwork-diamond (8K)
blackwork-border1 (7K) blackwork-border2 (8K)
shaded-blackwork (8K) blackwork-boat-mini (7K)
blackwork-celtic-knot (6K) blackwork-lion (6K)



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Special bonus offer

Still here? Need a little much convincing? How just about if, for a short time only, I add into the package a FREE bonus ebook!

The step by step instructions and diagrams wish have you sewing this sweet sampler in no time. This actually makes do blackwork for beginners a piece of cake.

With the 8 designs in the 1st book and this fantastic FREE sampler you wish have the technique of blackwork under your belt in no time! As long as you don't wait for 20 years like I did!



No-Questions-Asked Guarantee: If for any reason you don't find this book helpful once you are trying to discover blackwork for beginners just email me inside 8 weeks from your date of purchase - and I'll issue you a 100% refund immediately.

You have 8 full weeks to read, practice and to stitch the projects. If you're not wholly satisfied just ask for (and receive) an immediate, 100% refund.




Remember Blackwork for Beginners is yours for Simply $15! Click here to purchase



book-cover (30K) Instantly following your payment you wish be taken straight to a page wherever you can transfer your e-book to your computer. In minutes you can begin your journey into the fantastic earth of blackwork. The file size is 2.39MB so won't take long to download.

You wish need Adobe Reader (the latest version is recommended) installed on your computer in order to open and see this book. You can get Adobe Reader here (a new window wish open so you can transfer without departure this page).

If you want to open the file in your browser window, you can just click on the link. However, if you want to transfer the file to view later, then right click on the link and choose "Save Target As" or "Save File As." Then choice wherever you want to save the file on your hard drive.

I hope you enjoy your book, and learning just about blackwork. Please contact me if you have any questions.

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