Embroidery: A Step-By-Step Guide To More Than 200 Stitches

I am a beginner and I need such book as my main guidelines to embroidery. It has most types of stitches I can refer to during practice

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The book is well written and the diagrams are clear and easy to understand. The pictures are in color and are large enough to see well. This was a good purchase. There are so many stitch examples...200 or more

This book is very good for starters to under and and learn the different techniques to stitches. I am glad to have a copy of it. Thanks.

I'm mighty disappointed, partly with the book and partly with myself. First, this is an excellent book. But they keep republishing the same thing and just changing the cover. I already have this exact book, just an earlier edition. Can you make out the small print on the cover here? It says: "Previously published as 'Stitch Sampler'." Well, darn it, I already own "Stitch Sampler." This book is listed under the publisher, DK, instead of the author, Lucinda Ganderton so I thought it was a new book. Let me help you make sure you're getting the right publication: This one is the 2015 paperback I'm reviewing: Embroidery This is the identical 2015 book but with different title and in hard cover: Embroidery Stitches Step-by-Step This is the original paperback book published in 1999. I purchased it a year ago and use it all the time.: Stitch Sampler: The Ultimate Visual Dictionary to Over 200 Classic Stitches The is the identical 1999 hardcover book (at 77¢ this is the best bargain): Stitch This is the 2006 hardcover edition (current used price over #40): Stitch Dictionary which was published in paperback in 2009 (current used price under $7): Stitch Dictionary THEY ARE ALL IDENTICAL. 160 pages each and all filled with excellent photos and directions for the 200 classic stitches. I hope you find these links helpful as well as this, my original review: I have myriad needlework books but this is one I turn to consistently. It's one of the very best stitch guides I own...among dozens. These are the chapters: Intro, Materials, Tools & Techniques Gallery of Stitches...p. 22 [shows every stitch in the book with the page to find its diagrams] Line and Border Stitches...p. 36 [e.g. back, stem, split and chain stitches] Filling Stitches...p. 70 [e.g. small repeated stitches to make a "powdered"--filled--area] Openwork Stitches...p. 94 [i.e. pulled fabric, drawn thread, cutwork, insertion and edging stitches] Needlepoint stitches...p. 116 to 156--the largest chapter. [e.g. straight and diagonal, cross and star, looped and tied stitches] I have used the excellent illustrations design short workshops for samplers both for my Embroiderers' Guild of America group as well as the local quilt museum. Lucinda's secret is to use bright colored yarn on wide gauge fabric so you can see where the needle goes. And she shows where the working needle is in every diagram. The average stitch in all hand embroidery entails probably 4 or 5 separate steps; most books only show 2 and then the finished product. Here, the author shows ALL the steps in each stitch including that all-important "how do I begin the second stitch?" The only stitch I can quibble with is the bullion knot, my go-to stitch to evaluate a stitch guide. While I have books that show 5 and even 7 steps, this one only having 3 steps is sufficient because of the close-ups and because the explanation smooths over any lack of diagramming. So this exceptional book is the exception to the rule. To be able to learn stitches quickly and easily makes me feel accomplished instead of frustrated. Take the fear out of learning new stitches and check out this book. I think the confusion stems from Lucinda Ganderton being an English author with different publishers there and in the U.S. I don't think that's a good excuse for this confusion but I've given you the heads-up you need to buy this book...yes, get this book...but only buy one.

Excelente livro com pontos de bordado, explicado passo a passo.

El libro está escrito en inglés y explica como hacer cada puntada, me gustó mucho porque además de que son más de 200 diferentes puntadas están muy bien explicadas con fotografías y no con dibujos como la mayoría de los libros de bordado, las imágenes son de excelente calidad y es muy fácil entender las indicaciones aún si uno no sabe inglés, es un libro muy bien hecho, me encantó.