Book Review: Jane Greenoff, Celebration Cross Stitch , David & Charles (Devon), 1996

Jane Greenoff is one of the most known authors dedicated to creating and publishing work encouraging crafts using the most famous needlepoint in the western world: cross stitch!

She is the author of famous books such  as The New Cross Stitcher's Bible ( 2007) , Cross Stitch Dinosaurs(1994)  , Victorian Cross Stitch ( 1995) , The Sampler Workbook ( 1992) , Cross Stitch Cottages and Castles  ( 1989)   and of the book reviewed today in our blog , ' Celebration Cross Stitch'.

Celebration Cross Stitch was published in 1996 by David & Charles, a traditional publishing house who expanded their publishing services in this last decade to assisted publishing, whereby a publishers gets paid to publish and distribute the authors books but has no involvement with the elaboration and design of their books.

This financial manoeuvre to keep up with the rivalry of digitised books and books printed abroad, has helped many crafters and painters having their books accessible to the wider traditional bookshop buyer.

This was not the case back in 1996 when the book Celebration Cross Stitch was published . 

Jane Greenoff is a household name because her quality is beyond words, just fantastic and her designs make cross stitching pleasant as crafters like me  find themselves doing her projects and not changing thread often and not having to worry much about counting the squares two in two minutes.

Needless is to say that when I published my blog post last year on the 9th of August and stated I've chosen a project printed off pinterest rather than a project on her book, I was indeed making a huge mistake as I keep making mistake after mistake.

With Jane Greenoff  projects that is not the case as all projects are almost linear as if she had drawn straight into the fabric and everything goes well with very little sudden colour thread changes.

For buying please refer to https://davidandcharles.com/?s=Jane+Greenoff&post_type=product or Amazon https://www.amazon.co.uk/Jane-Greenoff/e/B001HCW1M0/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_book_1

Until next review,

Best wishes,

Ariane