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Summary: A MUST HAVE!
Review: Great cross stitch charts for fantasy lovers!
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Summary: Lovely designs, horrible presentation
Review: I really wanted to like this book, and I love most of the designs themselves. What I have an extreme difficulty with is the horrific charts. The small projects are fine. The larger ones are dreadful, being that in order to squeeze them all in, they are so reduced in size that they are nearly illegible. The lack of stitch-counts (or none that I could find, anyway) is also a minus for me; for those of us who rarely use the "recommended" fabric (particularly Aida, which I loathe and never use), this creates the necessity of hand counting the projects (and some of them are massive) in order to calculate fabric size--a hassle and very annoying.So the book as a whole gets 3 stars based on the designs themselves and the pretty pictures. The charting gets a 0.
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Summary: Great book, colorful
Review: I think this book is great. It's very colorful and easy to follow. I think this would be good even for a beginner cross stitcher. Great for anyone into mystical.
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Summary: Great book, colorful
Review: I think this book is great. It's very colorful and easy to follow. I think this would be good even for a beginner cross stitcher. Great for anyone into mystical.
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Summary: Fantasy and legends with style
Review: Julie Hasler's renditions of the zodiac symbols are WONDERFUL!!! I have not seen better anywhere else (and I've looked!) However, my praise must be tempered by the rest of the book. Except for one chart of the moon,the rest of the designs were no where near the quality of the zodiac, and at almost $28 this was a pricey buy!
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Summary: Love it
Review: Love the patterns and designs. A must for fantasy lovers!
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Summary: Excellent fantasy and zodiac designs for cross stitch.
Review: The designs in "Julie Hasler's Fantasy Cross Stitch" are rich and textured looking, without using difficult stitches, blended threads, or backstitch. Indeed, Hasler keeps backstitch to a minimum, using darker stitches for outlines and detail. The zodiac signs are particularly appealing. The Pegasus and Unicorn designs are also lovely. The use of darker stitches instead of backstitching gives the feeling of painting to these designs (rather than pen and ink!) I would highly recommend this book, both for the ease of stitching and for the unusual designs.
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Summary: Waste of $$$$
Review: The only good charts in this book are the zodic signs and the norse Gods the rest of the charts have no detail to them :( I really wasted my money buying this book. If you want good detailed fantasy patterns this is not the book for you instead try Teresa Wentzler's Fantasy Collection , alot better than this bit of fluff.
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Summary: Amazing zodiac charts - the rest is filler
Review: This book seems to have been created by two people.
The first half is dedicated to charts depicting the signs of the zodiac and the results are stunning. I have rarely seen such powerful cross-stitch designs.
The second half of the book is disappointing, substandard figures of wizards, unicorns and viking gods. The sun/moon design is ok, but not better than other such designs out there. Overall, I would recommend the book highly because you'll never find anything like the first half - it's worth the wasted back pages.
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Summary: Hard to Tell....
Review: With cross-stitch patterns, it's impossible to tell simply from the cover and a few pages of text background whether or not the charts themselves are af good quality and are what I am looking for. While I understand that providing the charts themselves in the preview might cause problems, I'd at least like to see more pictures of the finished projects rather than a dozen pages of background information on the design. I'm buying the book to stitch from, not to read as a novel!
The reviews are somewhat helpful, but they are subjective - it would be like buying a painting sight unseen simply because a stranger said it was a marvelous piece of work. We all have different tastes and what I like may/may not be what anyone else likes. Books like these should not be treated as storybooks are - you can compare authors and say things like "if you like book X then you might like book Y..." but it's not that simple with crafts.
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