{"product_id":"9781837330607","title":"Playful Stitch - Joyful journeys in textile art (Hardback)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA sumptuous and vividly colourful journey through Deena Beverley’s imaginative take on textile art, in which she shares her passion for playfulness in all things stitched and mixed media. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHere Deena shares the key ingredient in her creative practice: play – making this book a practical route map to reconnect readers with the simple, childlike pleasure of joyful experimentation and unpressured making. With chapters including ‘The Nature Table’, ‘The Toybox’, ‘The Dressing-Up Box’, ‘The Stationary Cupboard’, ‘Story Time’ and ‘Messy Play’, Deena shares how she makes creative play a part of her daily life, turning it into beautiful, award-winning hand- and machine-embroidered, painted, quilted and appliquéd work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePacked with simple techniques which not only inject a shot of new energy into familiar materials, but which are, crucially, fun to do, Deena describes this book as ‘messy play for grownups’ with detours to the dressing-up box, a rummage through the toy box and a deep delve into the stationery cupboard, via story time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis palate-cleansing dopamine hit of colour and texture is a creative holiday for the soul and Deena’s distinctively rich, illustrative, compelling narrative work which readers know and love, will inspire many happy hours of playful making.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Batsford Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48551823343867,"sku":"9781837330607","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/abramsandchronicle.co.uk\/products\/9781837330607","provider":"Abrams \u0026 Chronicle Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}