Empowered Embroidery

Celebrate creativity, courage, and inspiration through the art of embroidery. Empowered Embroidery combines sketching, stitching, and portrait embroidery to help makers create beautiful tributes to remarkable women who have shaped history and culture.

Designed for beginners and experienced stitchers alike, this book introduces essential embroidery techniques, basic stitches, and drawing skills before guiding you through projects featuring iconic women such as Frida Kahlo, Eleanor Roosevelt, Maya Angelou, Harriet Tubman, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Michelle Obama.

Step-by-step instructions, detailed photographs, and helpful exercises make portrait embroidery approachable and rewarding. Along the way, you'll learn techniques for creating facial features, hair, and expressive details while building confidence in both sketching and stitching.

Part embroidery guide, part artistic inspiration, this unique book encourages makers to develop new skills while celebrating women whose stories continue to inspire generations.