More than twenty original projects presented with the personal guidance and enthusiasm of Margaret Boyles, a master of the art of needlework, make The Margaret Boyles Book of Crewel Embroidery a treasury of creative ideas for working with fabric and yarns in new and exciting ways. Crewel is a particularly versatile form of embroidery and using the patterns and stitches described in this book, you can create pillows and bell pulls, pictures and pincushions, samplers and afghans and much more. The styles range from classical and Jacobean to Oriental, Colonial and modern.