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Floral Stitches: An Illustrated Guide to Floral Stitchery

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This is an excellent book. It provides you with many choices of stitched flowers both in silk ribbon and threads and yarns. FOr those who admire the intricate stitching and motifs that are original to crazy quilting this book will set you well on your way to adding many of interesting stitched florals to your blocks. It is a well done book, very good instructions , easy to understand and truly inspirational. I have read many cq books and find this the best one.
Not only does it give you the basics you need to get started adding wonderful embroidery to your quilting but it inspires you to adventure out and try your own designs.
This book is well suited to the beginner and the experienced stitcher who wants to add new techniques and ideas to your quilted pieces.

For those who have grasped the basic stitches, here is the intermediate to advanced stitchers stitch dictionary. I disagree only with one point in the previous reviewer's statement in that it is not necessary to have a knowledge of ribbon embroidery to find this book valuable. With so many new fibers to play with out on the market all you need is a complete stitch dictionary and then let your imagination take over. This is your book! If you had fun with her first dictionary "Elegant Stitches", then you are in for a treat with the second installment "Floral Stitches". Crazy quilters will have a blast with this book using floss and ribbon embroidery! If you are a beginning stitcher this book is not a good starting point. Buy Judith's "Elegant Stitches" and then graduate.

Every time I start a sewing project for clothing, for gifts or for something for the house I take this book and many ideas come to my mind of how to make it more beautiful,it's also easy to follow the instructions and I think it's a very complete book of reference.

This is a good book for creative inspiration, but beginners should be aware that it is not intended for floss embroiderers with no ribbon embroidery experience.

Some of the directions assume knowledge of basic stitches, and often the directions do not explain how to 'end' a stitch or series of stitches.

Do buy this book if you would like to be inspired to begin ribbon embroidery or if have experience and you need new ideas: the pictures are wonderful! And if you already have some knowledge of basic ribbon stitches, you'll be well on your way to new ideas and projects.

If you have come to expect the best from Judith Montano's books, you will not be disappointed by her latest offering. It is full of ideas for floral stitchery.

There are plenty of new designs in this book. If you already own several of Judith's books you will not see a lot of repitition of previously published designs. New stitches and new combinations of old favorites are plentiful.

My favorite sections are the Free Form Embroidery samples and the Crazy Quilt Combinations. Every crazy quilter is on the lookout for new ideas for seam decorations and the outline drawings are very simple to follow.

Floral alphabets, painted backgrounds and ribbon embroidery stitches are also covered in their own sections.

Try this book--you will not be disappointed!

If you love Victorian Stiches then this is the book for you. Clearly illustrates dozens of embroidery stitches.

Great Book.

This book is beautiful to thumb through. It makes you long for a gentler time when people made more effort to embellish their things. There are some wonderful ideas with good illustrations and diagrams. This is not a good book if you are just starting to explore the world of embroidery but if you are a seasoned embroiderer, this is a lovely treasure to add to you library.