Free Motion Machine Embroidery, Needlework, Traditional Hand Embroidery, or Stitch for Shibori and Surface Design — available from Galli Creative.
Claire Benn • Jan Beaney • Jean Littlejohn • Ana Lisa Hedstrom • Alison Holt • Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada
Galli Creative is proud to be the home of video and print publications covering a wide range of stitch and embroidered textiles from Europe, North America and Asia. From Japanese stitched shibori to free motion machine embroidery, we offer a view of stitch that is inviting, creative, and welcoming towards developing your own unique style and results.

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A Sketch In Time • Jan Beaney & Jean Littlejohn
- $10.00
- Digital Edition – View Online + Download Today Jan and Jean explore different formats, papers and media for creating sketchbooks and discuss a variety of methods for their use.
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A Tale of Two Stitches • Jan Beaney & Jean Littlejohn
- $10.00
- Digital Edition – Read Online + Download Today Jan and Jean show the wonderful effects that may be achieved using two of their favourite stitches: Sorbello and Lock Stitch.
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Arimatsu Narumi Shibori: Celebrating 400 Years of Japanese Artisan Design
- Learn Shibori (Japanese resist dyeing) from start to finish. Detailed recordings of each step, including designing and stenciling, dyeing and drying, thread removal and steam finishing. Demonstrations on cotton and silk fabrics, by master Shibori artists from Japan.
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Bonding and Beyond • Jan Beaney & Jean Littlejohn
- $10.00
- Digital Edition – View Online + Download Today Learn how to bond materials together, using a fusible web or powder. Color Bondaweb, trap and layer fabrics and create bonded beads and brooches, too!
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COLOUR EXPLORATIONS • Jan Beaney & Jean Littlejohn
- $10.00
- Digital Edition – Read Online + Download Today Work with Purple and Yellow pigments, paints, fabrics, dyes and thread to demonstrate fresh ideas on how to use and incorporate color in your own work.
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Creating Machine Embroidery with Alison Holt
- $45.00
- In this 3+ hour video workshop master embroiderer Alison Holt demonstrates her most requested techniques for producing flowers, foliage and landscapes -- equally effective on plain or hand-painted fabric backgrounds.
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Double Vision: Personal Approaches to Work • Jan Beaney & Jean Littlejohn
- $10.00
- Digital Edition - Read Online + Download Today Jan and Jean talk about how to select a theme, difficulties in starting new work, and the use of diaries and notebooks to develop your work.
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Finding Your Own Visual Language • Benn, Dunnewold & Morgan
- $38.00
- A transatlantic collaboration between Jane Dunnewold, Claire Benn and Leslie Morgan, the third book in the Committed to Cloth series aims to help those who are seeking a surer artistic voice by providing practical exercises and guidance on different ways forward.
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Gardens & More • Jan Beaney & Jean Littlejohn
- $10.00
- Digital Edition – View Online + Download Today This embroidery book inspires the textile artist to look at gardens with fresh eyes, interpret unusual viewpoints or individual plants in fabric and thread.
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Giving Pleasure • Jan Beaney & Jean Littlejohn
- $10.00
- Digital Edition - Read Online + Download Today Learn how to create unique gifts and cards for special celebrations and occasions using embroidery and decorated papers.
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In Action • Jan Beaney & Jean Littlejohn
- $29.95 – $38.00
- In this 2-hour stitch and mixed media workshop Jan Beaney and Jean Littlejohn will lead you through a variety of embroidery and mixed media techniques including: developing a composition / journaling, fabric paints, fabric dyes, embellishing, knitting, foiling, soluble film, hand and machine stitching.
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In Motion • Jan Beaney & Jean Littlejohn
- $29.95 – $48.00
- Follow along as Jan Beaney and Jean Littlejohn explore the power and versatility of the sewing machine in creating a variety of stitch and embroidery textiles. A wonderful introduction to free motion machine embroidery for all skill levels and artists.