Embroidered Kitchen Garden: Vegetable, Herb & Flower Motifs to Stitch & Savor

I love this author and her books, the patterns are easy to transfer and so nice! I can’t wait to thread my needle and dive in!

I love the patterns in this book. The descriptions can be a little confusing but if you're stuck on a stitch, look it up on YouTube.

Beautiful pictures. Pictures on front of book, instructions in the back of the book.

Just totally delightful. Lovely patterns, simple instructions. Just so, so charming.I have been embroidering for a while and I actually learned new stitching techniques from this as well.

This is such a lovely book. Very inspirational.

Embroidered Kitchen Garden is a new tutorial guide for surface embroidery by Kazuko Aoki. Originally published in Japanese in 2017, this English translation is due out 1st Sept. 2019 from Zakka Workshop. It's 104 pages and will be available in paperback format.The author/artist's work is delicate and realistic. This is the third book from Zakka Workshop featuring her botanical surface embroidery designs. This one (see cover) features colorful vegetables and herbs, along with some insects and other garden creatures.These would be wonderful on table linens, decorative thread paintings, clothing, soft furnishings, and many other uses.Roughly the first half of the book is a photo gallery of the included designs. Some are pictured as they are in the templates at the back of the book, and some are positioned in garden-scapes together. There is an herb garden composition with a beehive, herbs, and even a tree with a bird and birdhouse that is lovely and colorful.The gallery of designs is followed by a how-to materials and stitching tutorial with stitch diagrams and tips for using the included pattern templates. These are clear enough to be accessible to beginning embroiderers. The designs themselves aren't overly simple, but they're well diagrammed in the templates with recommended stitches and colors. The thread recommendations are for DMC mouline (6 strand floss), but conversions for silks or specialty fibres are available online for more advanced or adventurous stitchers.There's a short list of included plants at the back of the book with common, botanical (Latin) names, and indigenous locations included for further inspiration. The artist's afterword was interesting also (she's a gardener and takes inspiration from nature and her own garden).Really pretty designs, well drawn and appealing.Five stars.Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes

Cute examples of garden themed embroidery lots of fruit, veggies, and a few critters! The good: the book has color pictures of all the designs, and a stitch glossary where you can see how to do each one. The back of the book has the true to size pattern for you to trace or copy over to your blank. These are great images that have lots of household uses.I would have liked to see examples of the designs decorating items like a reusable grocery bag, kitchen towel and have a few project ideas included. Thanks to the publisher and netgalley for a digital ARC to review.

Embroidered Kitchen Garden by Kazuko Aoki is a free NetGalley ebook that I read in early September.Holy crap, this is so pretty. There are pages and pages of finished projects of veg, greens, tools, and garden visitors to draw inspiration from, then tutorials on how budding embroiderers can choose the color of embroidery floss and achieve some of the whirls & embellishments to make the project seem raised, refined, and ready to be plucked.

This is a beautiful book, and fun!I have another of her books and this one is just as good. It's full of beautiful but fun designs. The stitches aren't difficult but they look amazing, and different.There's great attention to detail which is what makes the designs so good.The whole book is just beautiful.It's a pleasure to look at and read, then you have the fun of stitching. I love it.

I love this book it’s my style.Nice illustrations. I have others in this series and I’m suitably impressed.

adoro i libri di kazuko aoki, non solo per la bellezza dei suoi ricami ma anche per le spiegazioni comprensibili, chiare e molto precise.