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Crewel is the art of embroidering by hand with wool thread on linen fabric. Wool & Hoop offers a line of crewel embroidery kits featuring original designs by artist Katherine Shaughnessy. With crewelwork, there is no counting, no grids: just free-form embroidery. You'll enjoy learning all the crewel stitches - they're fun to master. Try crewelwork and discover how the lush wool threads sit up high on the rich linens to make your craft really "pop." Katherine's book, The New Crewel, offers 30 of her original designs, 15 fun projects, and 16 classic embroidery stitches. We offer all the supplies you'll need right here at Wool & Hoop so that you can do projects from The New Crewel and/or designs of your own. 
Check out Katherine Shaughnessy's lastest creation in the Feb/March issue of Sew News. It's a simple, linen, wrap-a-round skirt with a poppy, floral pattern along the lower edge. Perfect for Spring. You can pick up a copy of the magazine, their 30th Anniversary Collector's Edition, at your local bookstore, or buy it online here. And, Wool & Hoop sells everything you'll need to make the skirt: The linen fabric, crewel wool thread, needles and a hoop. Click here to see it all. You can follow the white on turquoise design as she did, or choose from our 18 shades of linen and 421 shades of crewel thread to make it your own. The only thing you'll need is a pattern for the skirt -- an easy find at your local fabric store. Have fun!
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