Optimize 🧵 Your Embroidery Skills Workshop Review

This book is for "beginners" like me who don't know how to embroider or cross stitch and want to learn quickly. She, Diana Rupp, will show you everything you need to know and buy and teach you all the stitches you need to learn. The book is in "spiral" format, you can just roll it to the page you want! It even includes a practice page/card to practice some stitches on and an envelope with project templates to choose from. Very modern and pretty, love it!

I felt it was a bit pricey so I took the plunge and am glad I did. It covers all the topics you want to know about embroidery. When I saw the title I got nervous because it says "embroidery and beadwork". Okay, I only embroider so I was concerned that the book would cover topics not relevant to my needs. The book is organized so well that there are chapters covering everything you need to know. No problem. The pictures are crisp as written (not boring, more of a pleasant conversational tone)…

This book is really great if you don't know what you're doing and what type of craft is right for you, or if You are interested in getting away from any form of embroidery. The explanations of the different threads, tools and how to use each type of embroidery were very well written and now I feel a lot more confident about which projects I want to try and which ones I don't. The illustrations were excellent, much more useful than the photos. There are also lots of little tips that I found…