A-Z of Embroidery Stitches: A Complete Manual for the Beginner Through to the Advanced Embroiderer (A-Z of Needlecraft)

Easy to follow. Love the A-Z series. A pictorial contents list at the front would be useful but I use another book for that, then find the stitch in this book. The second embroidery stitches book is also fab.

Good book explains alit of stitching just what I wanted

I re bought this book after lossing my copy in a move. It’s really the best reference book for embroidery. Detailed and clear instructions

Beautiful book, needed something simpler, doing new embroidery stitches and this book was not very clear to me. Great price.

Excellent detail and drawings of stitches, also details what the stitch is used for. Perfect for anyone to use from beginner to advanced.

This is a great beginner book for those getting into embroidery

There are some wonderful ideas in this book, a great purchase

Ive just taken up embroidery and wanted a book which explained all the most basic stitches to me and gave me useful information on whats all involved as an absolute beginner. Although theres lots of youtube videos to explain all this, i'm old fashioned and prefer a book to keep referring back to so got this.It is exactly as described. Its a nice book to look through, glossy pages with explanations of all the stitches and clear diagrams on how to do them, and you do get a couple of pages at the beginning that explain all the basics. But - it wasnt exactly what I was looking for as an absolute beginner, I think it's probably a bit more suitable for someone who has some experience and wants to expand their knowledge. A beginner like me could still get something from this book, but what puts me off it is that it's an A-Z,so the stitches are listed in alphabetical order. Before I bought this book I didnt even think about that aspect of it, but when I got it I realised I would have preferred it to have been divided up by types of stitches or uses, which would have helped me more as a beginner. There is another really excellent book I bought just after, which I prefer and would recommend to other people in the same boat as me, who want a more helpful layout - Embroidery Stitches Step by Step by Lucinda Ganderton.Having said that, I was pleasantly surprised by one thing - theres quite a decent number of ribbon embroidery stitches, which show you how to sew eg little roses out of ribbon, and theres quite a few pages on bullion knot roses and ribbons made with them - for someone who doesnt know what that is, its like a way of making textured stand out shapes instead of just flat embroidery. I was going to give this book to someone else as a present - it would make a nice gift - but decided to keep it just because of the ribbon stitches, because I'd like to try some of these in future.So I'm not giving it 5 stars just because its not exactly what I was looking for at the minute, but having said that its still a nice book with lots of good things which I'll probably use it for later.

Great book. Lots of choices of stitches. Good illustrations and instructions

Loved the instructions and the pictures. Really informative and easy to learn.

Esses livros são muito bons com esquema do bordado, nos ajuda muito a entender o ponto

Bin sehr zufrieden!

Nice book I have this one and the second one ! Clear explainations of all the possibile stitches with written instructions and pictures!