House & Garden Samplers

"Depicting houses and gardens in needlwork is a perennial interest among stitchers....Jenkins gives instructions for designing charts of one's own home along with examples of architectural and garden components that may be used....The black-and-white charted designs are intended as a point of departure for stitchers designing their own samplers....Of particular interest in the full-color examples offered by the author is the clever use of a variety of canvaswork stitches to imitate brickwork, stone, and plants...."--Library Journal. 128 pages, 132 color illus., 18 b/w illus., 7 1/2 x 10 1/4.