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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- BOOKS, Committed to Cloth, Print Editions - New, RC ARTISTS
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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- Digital Editions (Videos), VIDEOS / WORKSHOPS
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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- Digital Editions (Videos), Double Trouble - Jan & Jean, Double Trouble Ent Digital, DVDS, VIDEOS / WORKSHOPS
Interpretations: Look, Record, Draw • Beaney & Littlejohn
- $55.00
- In this 5+ hour workshop from Jan Beaney and Jean Littlejohn, we learn to look -- becoming aware of what attracts us, record -- collecting ideas for later development, and finally draw -- developing what we saw and recorded into finished drawings and illustrations. We explore many techniques including drawing, painting, collage and making marks. As Jan and Jean love…
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- Digital Editions (Videos), Double Trouble - Jan & Jean, Double Trouble Ent Digital, DVDS, VIDEOS / WORKSHOPS
In Stitches • Jan Beaney & Jean Littlejohn
- $42.00
- Jan Beaney & Jean Littlejohn provide an inspirational guide to hand embroidery stitching, using traditional and contemporary stitch techniques along the way.
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Just One More Thing: Review, Revisit, Remind • Jan Beaney & Jean Littlejohn
- $18.50
- Jan and Jean tackle their most commonly asked questions in this book which offers hints and reminders on a variety of embroidery and mixed media subjects.
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Location, Location • Jan Beaney & Jean Littlejohn
- $12.50
- See design opportunities in the places around you, showing locations to stimulate you, materials and tools to excite you, and interpretations to inspire you.
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- BOOKS, Digital Editions (FlipBooks), Double Trouble - Jan & Jean, Embroidery & Stitch
Embellish and Enrich • Jan Beaney & Jean Littlejohn
- $12.50
- In this book we have set about looking at ways of producing surfaces that are multi-layered and in some cases richly extravagant. As well as using stitches and additions such as beads we will look at the use of the embellishing machine to create fabulous surfaces.
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Red • Jan Beaney & Jean Littlejohn
- $12.50
- The color Red in its many shades and hues provides the focus for a range of inspirational samples from diverse and unexpected sources.
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Grids to Stitch • Jan Beaney & Jean Littlejohn
- $12.50
- This book shows you a variety of grids as a source for design and shows how they can be converted into wonderful works of textile art.
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New Dimensions in Hand and Machine Embroidery • Jan Beaney & Jean Littlejohn
- $12.50
- New Dimensions in Hand and Machine Embroidery explores two innovative approaches to combining hand and machine stitching creating imaginative surface design in textiles and embroidery.
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- BOOKS, Digital Editions (FlipBooks), Double Trouble - Jan & Jean, Double Trouble Ent Digital, Embroidery & Stitch
Trees as a Theme • Jan Beaney & Jean Littlejohn
- $12.50
- In this book we learn how to look at Trees as a wonderful source of inspiration for design. We record what we see — such as textures, colors, patterns and shapes, and interpret these into creating our own unique designs.
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Conversations with Constance • Jan Beaney & Jean Littlejohn
- $12.50
- Constance Howard, MBE (1910-2000) was the foremost pioneer of creative embroidery in Great Britain in the second half of the 20th century. This review in book form of her life and work includes personal memories she shared with the authors in the last years of her life.
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- BOOKS, Double Trouble - Jan & Jean, Double Trouble Ent Digital, Embroidery & Stitch, Print Editions - New, What's New & On Sale!
Reflections, Echoes & Aspirations • Jan Beaney & Jean Littlejohn
- $21.95
- Limited Quantity of Signed Print Editions Available! The book, Reflections, Echoes and Aspirations chronicles the sketch and stitch journey of Jan Beaney and Jean Littlejohn through the ups and downs of the Covid pandemic. Drawing inspiration from the moment, they doubled down on their creativity, producing a body of work that was inspired by their immediate surroundings, reflective moments, detailed…
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- Digital Editions (FlipBooks), Double Trouble Ent Digital
Connections • Jan Beaney & Jean Littlejohn
- $12.50
- Digital Edition – View Online + Download Today In book 14 from Jan Beaney and Jean Littlejohn we will explore "connections" -- in relationship to fabrics, threads, ideas and inspirations. From the most primitive responses to more complex and sophisticated techniques we seek to encourage fresh approaches to this most exciting of areas.
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- Digital Editions (FlipBooks), Double Trouble Ent Digital, Embroidery & Stitch
OVER THE LINE : COUCHING REDISCOVERED
- $12.50
- Jan Beaney & Jean Littlejohn Digital Edition – Read Online + Download Today Jan and Jean demonstrate a variety of approaches with couching embroidery stitches with an emphasis on experimentation, incorporating new and exciting materials along the way.
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Voluptuous Velvet • Jean Littlejohn
- $12.50
- Digital Edition – Read Online + Download Today Coloring, bonding and stitching velvet pile fabrics. Adding and removing color (discharge techniques) are discussed in detail with loads of illustrations.
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COLOUR EXPLORATIONS • Jan Beaney & Jean Littlejohn
- $12.50
- 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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Stitch Resist Reconsidered • Ana Lisa Hedstrom
- $48.00
- In STITCH RESIST RECONSIDERED, Ana Lisa Hedstrom creates multi-dimensional stitch shibori resist patterns and pleats for art clothing, quilts, and textile art.
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Bonding and Beyond • Jan Beaney & Jean Littlejohn
- $12.50
- 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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Giving Pleasure • Jan Beaney & Jean Littlejohn
- $12.50
- 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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A Tale of Two Stitches • Jan Beaney & Jean Littlejohn
- $12.50
- 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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Gardens & More • Jan Beaney & Jean Littlejohn
- $12.50
- 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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No Stone Unturned • Beaney & Littlejohn
- $12.50
- Digital Edition – Read Online + Download Today From gemstones to fossils: this book shows design, stitch and fabric interpretations inspired by stones, rocks and minerals.
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A Sketch In Time • Jan Beaney & Jean Littlejohn
- $12.50
- 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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Seductive Surfaces • Jan Beaney & Jean Littlejohn
- $12.50
- Digital Edition - Read Online + Download Today See the many sumptuous textile surfaces that can be created using traditional stitching combined with the modern media available in the market today.
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Double Vision: Personal Approaches to Work • Jan Beaney & Jean Littlejohn
- $12.50
- 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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In Action • Jan Beaney & Jean Littlejohn
- $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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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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- Digital Editions (Videos), Double Trouble - Jan & Jean, Double Trouble Ent Digital, DVDS, VIDEOS / WORKSHOPS
In Motion • Jan Beaney & Jean Littlejohn
- $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.