{"product_id":"hoopla-the-art-of-unexpected-embroidery-9781551524061","title":"Hoopla: The Art of Unexpected Embroidery","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHoopla: The Art of Unexpected Embroidery\u003c\/strong\u003e by Prain, Leanne. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781551524061.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA Library Journal Best Book of the Year\nHoopla, by the co-author of 2009s bestselling Yarn Bombing: The Art of Crochet and Knit Graffiti, showcases those who take the craft of embroidery where its 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.\nHoopla 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.\nFull-color throughout and bursting with history, technique, and sass, Hoopla will teach readers how to stitch a ransom note pillow, mean and dainty knuckle-tattoo church gloves; and create their own innovative embroidery projects. If you like anarchistic DIY craft and the idea of deviating from the rules, Hoopla will inspire you to wield a needle with flair!\nWith a foreword by Betsy Greer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Brand: Arsenal Pulp Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44945837817909,"sku":"ByrdShop_1551524066","price":36.08,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781551524061_9e2e8d6b-067f-45b4-8acc-97c36213c548.jpg?v=1778801269","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/hoopla-the-art-of-unexpected-embroidery-9781551524061","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}