🧵 Complete Embroidery Workshop: A Comprehensive Guide to Embroidery, Cross-Stitch, Needlepoint, Beadwork, Applique, and More 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 thought it was a bit overpriced so I took the plunge and I'm 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…

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