EAN 9781551524061

A "Library Journal" Best Book of the Year "Hoopla," by the co-author of 2009's bestselling "Yarn Bombing: The Art of Crochet and Knit Graffiti," showcases those who take the craft of embroidery where it's never gone before, in an astonishing, full-color display of embroidered art. "Hoopla" rebels against the quaint and familiar embroidery motifs of flowers and swashes, and focuses instead on innovative stitch artists who specialize in unusual, guerrilla-style patterns such as a mythical jackalope and needlepoint nipple doilies; it demonstrates that modern embroidery artists are as sharp as the needles with which they work. "Hoopla" includes twenty-eight innovative embroidery patterns and profiles of contemporary embroidery artists, including Jenny Hart, author of "Sublime Stitching"; Rosa Martyn of the UK-based Craftivism Collective; Ray Materson, an ex-con who learned to stitch in prison; Sherry Lynn Wood of the Tattooed Baby Doll Project, which collaborated with female tattoo artists across the United States; Penny Nickels and Johnny Murder, the self-proclaimed Bonnie and Clyde of embroidery; and Alexandra Walters, a military wife who replicates military portraits and weapons in her stitching.