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Books in My Library: Alphabet Books in Print and Online

The ANG NJ Needle Artists chapter is doing Chottie’s Plaid for a name tag. Last night, Cathryn discussed how to fit names onto the available space. It dawned on me that I never compiled a list of my alphabet books.

My print pamphlets/books include (in no particular order):

Plain & Fancy Alphabets by Better Homes and Gardens

Clown Alphabet by Just CrossStitch

365 Alphabets: Cross Stitch All Through The Year by Kooler Design Studio

Alphabets Galore: 136 Alphabets by Leisure Arts

120 Alphabets by Leisure Arts

Alphabetrics by Jinis

Online resource include:

https://lordlibidan.com/53-free-cross-stitch-alphabets/ Here’s an example (arranged by height up to 16 stitches high):

And, ANG members can access this one:

Leslie’s Italic Alphabet by Dianne’s Designs from Nametag with Bright Fish, by Leslie Barnes, in the 1999 July issue of Needle Pointers magazine (https://online.fliphtml5.com/bjsk/bzza/).

Brenda C left a comment below with more wonderful resources but I wanted to pull them up into the posting in case I forget they are there or others don’t read the comments. The rest are from Brenda who is, as always, very helpful and generous!

These also from Needle Pointer’s are by Tink Boord-Dill (who wrote many alphabet books which are available on Etsy at https://tinkbd.com/ and a Google search will find a few other books; a review of 6 books is in the 2006 03 March issue and 4 books in the 2018 05 May issue – alphabets are always in style):

• 2005 07 July issue for Asian and Pressed Out 18 or Negative Space
• 2005 09 September issue for Hebrew 16
• 2005 11 November issue for Typo Script 20 and Gallery 19 Serif
• 2006 01 January issue Diamond Tilt 20 and Bucket 16

In the 2013 03 March issue of Needle Pointers has 5 different alphabets from Sandra M R, an ANG certified Senior Master Teacher.

In the 2019 03 March issue of Needle Pointers Kathleen B shared her design, Lower Case Alphabet Sampler.

Janet Perry also has some wonderful alphabets on her blog: Nuts about Needlepoint.

I got this tip to add: If you want the words/letters to be legible on name tags, stick to simple, large fonts. Many of those you find in books are better for monograms than names.