This is very light information on threads, needles, fabric, transferring designs, frames or hoops, and very basic tips on stitching the flowers. It isn’t until the middle of the book that you’ll find a two-page, short spread on basic tips when working the embroidery. Occasionally, you might even come across a bug! Or, of course, you can stitch all the elements in the same botanical-study fashion as presented in the book. The projects are presented more like botanical studies, with different parts of them segmented and highlighted from the main growth.Īpproached the right way, this gives the embroiderer a lot of freedom to choose what to stitch – whether you want to stitch a full flower with stem, leaves, and all, or just the flower, or just part of the flower. So, for the first half of the book, you’ll find page after page of beautiful embroidered botanicals. Instead, it launches straight into images of all the projects covered in the book. Unlike most needlework project and instructional books that we’re used to today, the book doesn’t begin with in-depth information on the basics, like setting up, transferring, tools, materials and so forth. The motifs range from simple to more complex, and all are delightful. The book focuses on botanical motifs for needle and thread. Originally written in Japanese, we’re looking at the English translation published by Roost Books. It’s been slow coming this year, hasn’t it? No matter where you are, though, Embroidered Garden Flowers will certainly put you in the mood for All Things Growing!Įmbroidered Garden Flowers is a project book by Kazuko Aoki. Hopefully, if you’re in the same hemisphere I’m in, you’re finally enjoying some spring weather. Today, let’s talk embroidered flowers! I want to show you an embroidery project book I’ve had for a while, that I think is utterly charming.

Embroidery garden