Embroidered Botanicals: Beautiful Motifs That Explore Stitching with Wool, Cotton, and Metallic Threads (Make Good: Japanese Craft Style)

Higuchi is one of my favorite artists. Her work is suitable for the beginner and the expert, because the designs are so beautiful but only use a few stitches. Absolutely stunning photos and wonderful patterns, including suggestions for materials and colors. The detailed photos are excellent as a reference while stitching. This book includes her advice for selecting threads and yarn; how they impact the style of the work, and how to care for them. I love to use her motifs in between major embroidery projects, and enjoy them on my own linens and as gifts. They can be small projects finished in a day, or a large endeavor. This book is a visual feast and useful to the stitcher. Love it!

Great book, lots of information

The photos are clear and beautiful. The directions are great. Excellent book on hand embroidery. Thank you.

I absolutely love this book! Not only are the designs gorgeous, but they gave new life to my idea of embroidery! This book provides everything you will need to conceptualize a beautiful and modern embroidered keepsake from thread colors to instructions on the stitches! I am making botanical embroidered linen napkins for Christmas and am really pleased with their overall look!

I really liked the book is very inspiring! Sadly they packaged not carefully so it came bend. But over all I’m happy with the purchase

This book has a wide variety of patterns, info about different choices of thread, and basic embroidery instruction. I think all skill levels would enjoy this book.

This book taught me what kind of threads, hoops, and any other embroidery tools I should get to start. Perfect book for people who is trying embroidery for the first time. It especially helped me to understand the difference between various kinds of threads.

I love this book. Planning many fun embroideries based on this book