
Playful Stitch
Joyful journeys in textile art
Deena Beverley(Author)
Batsford (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 12. November 2026
Book
Hardback
128 pages
978-1-83733-060-7 (ISBN)
Description
A sumptuous and vividly colourful journey through Deena Beverley's imaginative take on textile art, in which she shares her passion for playfulness in all things stitched and mixed media.
Here Deena shares the key ingredient in her creative practice: play - making this book a practical route map to reconnect readers with the simple, childlike pleasure of joyful experimentation and unpressured making. With chapters including 'The Nature Table', 'The Toybox', 'The Dressing-Up Box', 'The Stationery Cupboard', 'Storytime' and 'Messy Play', Deena shares how she makes creative play a part of her daily life, turning it into beautiful, award-winning hand- and machine-embroidered, painted, quilted and appliqued work.
Packed with simple techniques which not only inject a shot of new energy into familiar materials, but which are, crucially, fun to do, Deena describes this book as 'messy play for grownups' with detours to the dressing-up box, a rummage through the toy box and a deep delve into the stationery cupboard, via story time.
This palate-cleansing dopamine hit of colour and texture is a creative holiday for the soul and Deena's distinctively rich, illustrative, compelling narrative work which readers know and love, will inspire many happy hours of playful making.
Here Deena shares the key ingredient in her creative practice: play - making this book a practical route map to reconnect readers with the simple, childlike pleasure of joyful experimentation and unpressured making. With chapters including 'The Nature Table', 'The Toybox', 'The Dressing-Up Box', 'The Stationery Cupboard', 'Storytime' and 'Messy Play', Deena shares how she makes creative play a part of her daily life, turning it into beautiful, award-winning hand- and machine-embroidered, painted, quilted and appliqued work.
Packed with simple techniques which not only inject a shot of new energy into familiar materials, but which are, crucially, fun to do, Deena describes this book as 'messy play for grownups' with detours to the dressing-up box, a rummage through the toy box and a deep delve into the stationery cupboard, via story time.
This palate-cleansing dopamine hit of colour and texture is a creative holiday for the soul and Deena's distinctively rich, illustrative, compelling narrative work which readers know and love, will inspire many happy hours of playful making.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Illustrations
Over 120 colour photographs
Dimensions
Height: 276 mm
Width: 216 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-83733-060-7 (9781837330607)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Deena Beverley is a textile artist, author of several craft books, and a regular contributor to Embroidery magazine. Her award-winning work has been widely exhibited internationally and she has appeared on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour. She is based in Wiltshire.
Content
Introduction
The Nature Table
The Toy Box
The Dressing-up Box
The Stationery Cupboard
Story Time
Messy Play
Conclusion
Suppliers
Contributing Artists
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Index
The Nature Table
The Toy Box
The Dressing-up Box
The Stationery Cupboard
Story Time
Messy Play
Conclusion
Suppliers
Contributing Artists
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Index