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This image was scanned from the Dianna May Martin personal library collection
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- The Workbasket Magazine
- Fabrics and Blanks
- Threads- Machine Embroidery, Hand Embroidery Threads
- Novel Ideas for Redwork
- SECTION ONE: WORKING THE DESIGNS
- Machine Embroidered Redwork
- Stabilizers
- Marking Tools
- Hooping Strategies
- Hand-Embroidered Redwork
- Transferring Images
- Stitches for Hand-Embroidered Redwork
- SECTION TWO: REDWORK PROJECTS
- Redwork Quilt
- Basic Tote Bag
- Case for Travel Pillow
- Circus Wall Quilt
- Foldable Shopping Tote
- Scalloped Apron
- Flower-of-the-Month Banner
- Hemstitched Linen Towel
- Silk Hearts Pillow
- Christmas Ornaments
- Redwork Table Runner
- Framed Sentiments
- SECTION THREE: THE DESIGNS ON CD-ROM
- Using the CD-ROM
- Special Notes on These Designs
- Key to Designs on CD-ROM
- Subject Index to Designs on CD-ROM
- Quilt Layout Diagrams
- Resources
- About Rebecca Kemp Brent
- INDEX
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Title: Redwork from THE WORKBASKET
Author/Designer: Rebecca Kemp Brent
Format/Publication Date: TPB:2010
Publisher: Krause Publications, Cincinnati, OH
Language: English
Page Count: 128
Book Dimensions(ht. x w.): 11" x 8 1/2"
ISBN: 0896899721
SUMMARY- I had mixed feelings about this book. I was thrilled that someone had noticed how delightful a cache of images The Workbasket had provided over its 61 year history, both in its transfer sheets that came with each issue, and the packaged sets of transfer sheets that were so popular. I grew up with those images throughout my great grandmothers, my grandmothers, my aunts and great aunts, and my mother's house. They aren't just old friends to me, but family members. They make me smile and want to hug them. If I ever win the lottery, I'll hire a detective to find every last one of them to add to my library, so that they will still be there hundreds of years from now for new generations of needleworkers to appreciate. This compilation comes with a CD-ROM that should make it easier to machine embroider the designs. They have projects that would work today as well as they did last century. (I especially love "Tat's My Bag" on page 47). My only complaint is they only provided 100 of the images - out of thousands. Maybe they didn't have access to more - I don't know. I'm grateful for the 100, but it's been 12 years now since this was published - where are the sequels?
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