Artist, craftperson and illustrator Aimee Ray has a wonderful new book out called Doodle Stitching: Fresh & Fun Embroidery for Beginners. Since I became aware of Aimee, aka Merwing, I have been impressed with her unique artistic style that she has been able to translate into fantastic embroidery art. Embroidery is such a versatile medium, yet so many craftsters stick to images that are steroetypical to the craft of embroidery. Aimee presents her unique embroidered images but also demonstraits and encourages artists to create their own embroidered visions.


I saw her work ages ago and thought omg she needs to do an embroidery book…not knowing that Doodle Stitching was hers. When I made the connection I was so excited. One of the few books I have bought new.