Lending

The Hal Painter Studio

Best of the overall crafting books. Good instructions and pictures. Contains many knitting patterns and embroidery stitches. This is a very detailed for an overview of crafting book. Includes some projects. ( )

Likely the only book you'll ever need to learn needlework. ( )

This was a fine reference work for its time for those who didn't want separate works for various crafts they weren't really interested in. In the meantime I have much better books for those I am interested in, and the projects are painfully dated.

But above all, computers (scanners, printers, internet) have changed needlework a lot. How we create, aquire and use patterns has changed. The patterns are so much more legible! A book from the days before the web can no longer claim to be complete.

Discarded.