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Summary: Tiny and exquisite
Review: Gerda Bengtsson is Denmark's greatest fiber-artist and created more than 1000 designs. She achieves the essence of botanicals using just a few, well-placed stitches. Most of her botanicals are large, stunning pieces. This is a collection of tiny, exquisite plants. (No, you won't find anything cute in here; no teddybears or santas). Over the past thirty years, I have made many of these, framed them for my home or given them as gifts. They are best when stitched on pure linen with Danish Flower Thread. [Still available from the Haandarbejdets Fremme] I was delighted to see this gem of a book for sale and bought up 5 copies! Mine is so worn!
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Summary: This is a "class"!
Review: This book is very reasonable, yet contains about 45 charts mostly wild flowers and berries. If you like simple scandinavian designs, you must love this. I recommend to stitch them on linen using danish flower thread to make your piece more elegant. I stitched a rosehip design on natural linen and turned out to be a beautiful pin-cushion.
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Summary: My humble opinion
Review: This book was not what I expected. The designs were too simple and quite frankly boring.
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