Roost Books Embroidered Animals: Wild and Woolly Creatures to Stitch and Sew

Love the designs. Planning to embroider panels for a quilt or to frame

This is a very well put together book of inspiring and creative embroidery projects. These are not so difficult that I would never consider attempting, in other words, NO EXCUSES! The photos are very well done, and the book make is good quality. This is my first look at Yumiko Higuchi’s work. Her embroidery style is NOT painterly (like Trish Burr and Chloe Giordano whose work I greatly admire), which means you do need to buy the entire collection of embroidery floss for a single project. Higuchi’s approach is artfully simplistic in a good way. She packs quite a bit into this little book. The projects include instructions to make several types of bags, sachets and cases, a brooch, a note card, flags, and more, not just the embroidery. Motifs include flora and fauna such as woodland critters, zoo animals, koalas, farm animals and water fowl.The book layout is as follows:brief introductionpages 4 thru 49 show artfully staged photos of the projectspages 50 and 51 list tools and materials52 thru 57 show stitch fundamentals58 thru 95 provide a well illustrated breakdown of each project which include the library of motifsAs with any how-to book, the ability to personalize each project is only limited by our imagination. It is hard to find anything to complain about, although when I like something I wish there was more of it. That said, I would suggest a slightly bolder and larger text font for better legibility. If you want inspiration for less complicated and/or less time consuming projects, you might enjoy this. Great ideas for quick gifts.

Es una artista genial, buenos dibujos de su estilo puedes perfectamente hacer plantillas y dicen como hacerlo ...quizas no es para principiante tiene que saber bordar algo, llego el envio muy rapido

Simplesmente maravilhoso! Era tudo que eu esperava. Lindos projetos, fácil entendimento para quem está iniciando como eu.Comprei antes mesmo do lançamento, chegou antes que o previsto, atendimento sensacional tb.

Very pleased! What a lovely book, tysm!