Many people believe the word Crewel means a specific type of stitchery or art form.  It is simply a piece of embroidery that has been worked with wool yarn.  Most women learned to make the Lazy Daisy, Cross Stitch and other simple embroidery stitches at a very early age.  Crewel Embroidery dates back at least a thousand years.  It was the leisure time pleasure of Queens and Princesses as well as a means to brighten the homes and apparel of common people.  Today, Crewel Embroidery is coming into a new era of creativity and self expression.  This book is too small to incorporate all the known Crewel stitches and their variations.  We have, therefore, chosen the most popular ones and used them in projects that can easily be done by anyone with a bit of yarn, a needle, a piece of material and an enormous amount of pure pleasure.