DETAILS Embroidery: Threads and Stories from Alabama Chanin and The School of Making recounts Natalie's journey and the origins of Alabama Chanin. A deeply personal and reflective work, Natalie’s sixth book explores her design ethos and creative process through stories that shaped her life, career, and our organization as a whole. It also serves as an empowering guide for all who love design and handcraft. • Hardcover• 272 pages• Measures 8.75 x 11"• Abrams, 2022• Ships in 1-3 business days *Excluded from all sales and promotions.

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Embroidery: Threads and Stories from Alabama Chanin and The School of Making recounts Natalie's journey and the origins of Alabama Chanin. A deeply personal and reflective work, Natalie’s sixth book explores her design ethos and creative process through stories that shaped her life, career, and our organization as a whole. It also serves as an empowering guide for all who love design and handcraft.
• Hardcover • 272 pages • Measures 8.75 x 11" • Abrams, 2022 • Ships in 1-3 business days
*Excluded from all sales and promotions.

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DETAILS The Geometry of Hand-Sewing: A Romance in Stitches and Embroidery —from Alabama Chanin and The School of Making by Natalie Chanin is a comprehensive guide to hand-stitching and embroidery. This book focuses solely on the stitches themselves rather than projects or garments. It takes embroidery stitches and breaks them down into different geometric grid systems that make learning even seemingly elaborate stitches as easy as child’s play. The Geometry of Hand-Sewing presents this breakthrough method and features illustrated instructions for more than 100 stitches—from the most basic straight and chain to the more fanciful feather and herringbone—photos of both right and wrong sides; and guidelines for modifying stitches to further increase one’s repertoire. To simplify learning, the book also includes two plastic stitching cards die-cut with the grids on which every stitch in the book is based. These reusable cards can be stitched through for practicing or used as stencils for transferring grids to fabric. To create projects in this book, a section of our Variegated Stripe stencil is used. The artwork can be photocopied from the book, hand-drawn using a ruler, or downloaded here. *Excluded from all sales and promotions.• 144 pages• Paperback• 9 x 11 inches• Abrams, 2017• Ships in 1-3 business days INSTALLMENT HIGHLIGHTS • Instruction for more than 100 embroidery stitches • Plastic stitching cards die-cut with the 7 grids shown in the book • Labeled illustrations of each stitch for both left- and right-handed stitching • Photographs of both the front and back of each stitch *Excluded from all sales and promotions.

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The Geometry of Hand-Sewing: A Romance in Stitches and Embroidery <meta charset="utf-8"> —from Alabama Chanin and The School of Making by Natalie Chanin is a comprehensive guide to hand-stitching and embroidery. This book focuses solely on the stitches themselves rather than projects or garments. It takes embroidery stitches and breaks them down into different geometric grid systems that make learning even seemingly elaborate stitches as easy as child’s play.
The Geometry of Hand-Sewing presents this breakthrough method and features illustrated instructions for more than 100 stitches—from the most basic straight and chain to the more fanciful feather and herringbone—photos of both right and wrong sides; and guidelines for modifying stitches to further increase one’s repertoire. To simplify learning, the book also includes two plastic stitching cards die-cut with the grids on which every stitch in the book is based. These reusable cards can be stitched through for practicing or used as stencils for transferring grids to fabric.
To create projects in this book, a section of our Variegated Stripe stencil is used. The artwork can be photocopied from the book, hand-drawn using a ruler, or downloaded <a href="https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0411/9864/9508/files/The_School_of_Making_-_Variegated_Stripe_-_Stencil_Artwork_Cropped.jpg?v=1666212676" target="_blank">here</a>.
*Excluded from all sales and promotions. • 144 pages • Paperback • 9 x 11 inches • Abrams, 2017 <meta charset="utf-8">• Ships in 1-3 business days 
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• Instruction for more than 100 embroidery stitches • Plastic stitching cards die-cut with the 7 grids shown in the book • Labeled illustrations of each stitch for both left- and right-handed stitching • Photographs of both the front and back of each stitch 
*Excluded from all sales and promotions.

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DETAILS Alabama Studio Sewing Patterns: A Guide to Customizing a Hand-Stitched Alabama Chanin Wardrobe by Natalie Chanin is a companion to the Alabama Studio Series. In this volume of the four-book series, we offer, by popular demand, three new core patterns—the A-Line Dress/Tunic/Top, the Long and Short Wrap Skirt, and the Classic Coat/Jacket/Cardigan—and a guide to customizing garments to fit and flatter. The book comes with a disc containing patterns for all of the garments from the previous three books in the Alabama Studio Series with additional sizing for XXL. Choose The Studio Book Bundle option to get signed copies of each of the following titles by Natalie Chanin: Alabama Stitch Book, Alabama Studio Sewing Patterns, and Alabama Studio Sewing and Design. *Excluded from all sales and promotions. INSTALLMENT HIGHLIGHTS • 9 core garment patterns with up to 34 standard variations, plus three bonus pocket patterns • Patterns from the entire Alabama Studio Book Series with the additional XXL size • 5 full-scale stencil designs • Useful, convenient CD that minimizes its ecological footprint by conserving paper• Also includes basic stitching, construction, and technique instructions• Hardcover • 179 pages • Abrams, 2015 *Excluded from all sales and promotions.

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Alabama Studio Sewing Patterns: A Guide to Customizing a Hand-Stitched Alabama Chanin Wardrobe by Natalie Chanin is a companion to the Alabama Studio Series. In this volume of the four-book series, we offer, by popular demand, three new core patterns—the A-Line Dress/Tunic/Top, the Long and Short Wrap Skirt, and the Classic Coat/Jacket/Cardigan—and a guide to customizing garments to fit and flatter. The book comes with a disc containing patterns for all of the garments from the previous three books in the Alabama Studio Series with additional sizing for XXL.
<meta charset="utf-8">Choose The Studio Book Bundle option to get signed copies of each of the following titles by Natalie Chanin: <a href="https://shop.alabamachanin.com/products/alabama-stitch-book-natalie-chanin" target="_blank">Alabama Stitch Book</a>, Alabama Studio Sewing Patterns, and <a href="https://shop.alabamachanin.com/products/natalie-chanin-alabama-studio-sewing-design" target="_blank">Alabama Studio Sewing and Design</a>.
*Excluded from all sales and promotions.
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• 9 core garment patterns with up to 34 standard variations, plus three bonus pocket patterns • Patterns from the entire Alabama Studio Book Series with the additional XXL size • 5 full-scale stencil designs • Useful, convenient CD that minimizes its ecological footprint by conserving paper <meta charset="utf-8">• Also includes basic stitching, construction, and technique instructions • Hardcover • 179 pages • Abrams, 2015 
*Excluded from all sales and promotions.

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The School of Making Alabama Studio Sewing Patterns Book By Natalie Chanin with Garment Patterns and DIY Sewing.

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