I am a sucker for embroidery. It is such a gorgeous art. This was a book that I am still working at attempting. I am not a pro, or even an amateur. But I enjoy dabbling. This book has such cute designs. Love the plant theme.

As a newbie to embroidery, this was the perfect book to get me started. The book included hundreds of colorful illustrations and instructions for plant embroidery. I especially loved learning about the tools needed, the difference in stitches by using 1,2, or 3 threads. The thread conversion chart was incredibly useful. I know this is going to be a resource I will turn to time and time again.

Thanks NetGalley for letting me read this book for free and no strings attached! I liked it! I found the projects simple yet beautiful. As someone who has never embroided before Ir eccomend!

I love this book! Such cute embroidery designs that I can’t wait to try out myself. The book does a good job of covering different stitches for people less familiar with hand sewing.

Plant Lady Embroidery by Applemints is a lovely volume of botanical embroidery patterns. Delicate little designs actually resemble real flowers, leaves, and fungii. The first section of the book shows color depictions of the designs, with the page number of the design beside it. You can simply feast your eyes on the brightly colorful and pretty designs, or you can move on to the second section, which features information of how to use the book and how to do embroidery. It introduces terms, explains a few techniques, and even offers some ideas on how to feature these patterns--on a piece of felt, as a handcrafter pin, or on the side of a solid colored tote, for example. Then the third section is the patterns themselves, depicted in simple black and white illustrations that list the color number, number of strands, and type of stitching beside the transferrable patterns. As someone who doesn't actually embroider yet, even I found the book easy to follow, although I have not yet put it to use. I would, however, highly recommend it as a resource for anyone who enjoys embroidery, especially if they also love flowers, leaves, and/or mushrooms. This is a charming yet practical volume, and I want to thank #NetGalley and Quarto for sharing a temporary free digital advanced readers' copy with me in exchange for my honest review.

I don't think it's a coincidence that more people have taken up sewing in 2020 than in recent years, it can be a really relaxing and rewarding hobby and books like this are essential for teaching you the skills required. While the book is plant design based, it teaches you all of the necessary stitches you will need for a variety of projects going forward.

Very well designed and illustrated. These are quite realistic representations of plants, not just cutesy cartoons. The first 37 pages are closeups of finished examples, followed by some instructions and supply notes, then inspirations on where you might embroider these designs, and finally the designs themselves. This book does not have a lot of text, and I think someone could follow it without knowing much English, as long as they knew the basics of embroidery.

Thanks to the publishers and NetGalley for a digital ARC for the purpose of an unbiased review.

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"Plant Lady Embroidery. 300 Botanical Embroidery Motifs & Designs to Stitch" was presented by Applemints and published by Quarto Publishing Group – Quarry. The first part includes photos of the finished embroideries of the flowers, plants, and other objects. In the second part photos show how these embroideries can be used in various objects such as the collars of blouses, bags, pictures, ... The following pages touch topics such as "Tools & Materials", "Getting Started" and an "Embroidery Stitch Guide". The last part of the book presents the instructions for the embroidery motifs and designs in black-gray-white shades with the number of strands and the color number for the specific motifs.
This is far more than just a book to teach how to embroider plants. This book teaches art and it can be also inspirational for artists who use other media such as watercolors, acrylics, or mix-media for their art. This book is a great resource for embroidery artists and makes also a great present. It is presented with a beautiful design, a helpful tool for beginners and advanced embroidery artist. I highly appreciated the step-by-step instructions how to transfer the design on to cloth. The book also contains a conversion chart from Olympus floss to DMC, but the conversion chart to Anchor (MEZ) and Madeira floss which are more common in Europe are sadly missing. Nevertheless I highly can recommend this book.
The complimentary copy of this book was provided by the publisher through NetGalley free of charge. I was under no obligation to offer a positive review. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.
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If you are a person who loves to embroider, this is a great book of inspiration. Included in this book are all sorts of plant embroidery creations. Among the plants and flowers are a few extras. The first part of the book is individual creations and as I moved to the back of the book, she had some creations with many components put together. I found it to be quite inspiring.
I received a digital copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.


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A beautiful book full of little adorable patterns of plants. I've been wanting to learn embroidery and I think these patterns can be used by everyone regardless of their expertise level because they're very versatile. I'm very excited to try some of these out in the near future.
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The instructions and pictures are superb. Thank you for letting me read this.**********************************************************************************************************

Lovely fresh and modern take on embroidery. This classic hobby is having a revival and these lovely motifs will be great for beginners and experienced stitchers alike. Full of inspiration... I can see a rose and daisy patterned denim jacket for example!

Thanks to Netgalley for providing me with an advance digital copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

This gorgeous book should be in any stitcher's library. There are over 300 design motifs of various plants and flowers by different embroidery artists, and the selections are so lovely! Perfect for embellishing any number of projects, the only problems is deciding which design/s to use. The patterns include stitch guides and full-size templates, plus there is a section with how-tos on tools and materials needed, getting started, and stitch guides, as well as a project inspiration gallery. While I think this book is more suited to stitchers with at least some experience, a beginner would be able to pick this up with a little outside help, say instruction videos or tutorials. A great design resource!

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Plant Lady Embroidery by Applemints is a fantastic resource for anyone wanting to learn how to embroider. The book has a multitude of ideas that are inspirational and fun to make. It is definitely an easy hobby to start that requires minimal resources.

As many of us are finding ourselves indoors and at home more often than usual at present, crafting is one way to cure boredom! I have alway been interested in learning how to embroider and jumped at this opportunity to review Plant Lady Embroidery.

❀ MANY PATTERNS TO CHOOSE FROM

The layout of this craft book is really interesting. There are quite a few tips and basic information at the beginning to get you started. I loved the fact that there are so many patterns to choose from. I did have an ebook, so copying the patterns was a bit difficult, but still doable.

The images are plentiful and very inspiring throughout the book. However, the instructions for the more difficult patterns are sometimes a bit unclear. This is easily solved by a quick search on YouTube, though.

❀ EASY AND COST EFFICIENT HOBBY

If you are looking for a new activity to try that is both easy and cost efficient, Plant Lady Embroidery by Applemints is something to try.

This is such a beautiful book and filled with gorgeous ideas! I’d been wanting to try embroidery for a while and this seemed perfect. I’d definitely recommend it!

Plant Lady Embroidery is a superlative collection for surface embroidery by Applemints. Originally published in 2017 in Japanese, this English translation edition was released 28th April 2020 by Quarto on their Quarry imprint, it's 120 pages and available in paperback format.

This is an oddly formatted book to western audiences. The first 30% of the book is a catalogue of designs (and there are oodles of them!) presented in full color. There is a short gallery of project inspirations after that (4 pages) along with an introduction and general techniques chapter. This chapter covers materials, fabric and thread choices, needles, scissors, tensioning devices (hoops) etc etc.
It should be noted that this book is about surface embroidery, not cross stitch. It's lovely to see tutorials and and upswing in interest for the other fibrearts; it seems like only cross-stitch had any following for a long long time and it's nice to see surface embroidery enjoying a renaissance.

Anyhow, following the materials and supplies chapter is a really well done tutorial chapter about the different stitches used for the patterns in the book. The step-by-step photos are annotated and accompanied by explanatory text. They're clear and easy to follow.

The final half of the book contains the patterns for the elements listed in the catalogue at the beginning. They are mostly small(ish) elements which can be combined and switched around as desired.

I enjoyed the book very much. It's a worthwhile and fun introduction and guide to learning embroidery. Many of the designs in the book could also serve as a good jumping off point for dimensional embroider/stumpwork.

Four and a half stars

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.

Lovely book! I love flowers but haven't done embroidery in years. As it says, there are 300 motifs and designs in this book. I can't pick a favorite. First I saw the violets (!), then the lily of the valley, then little wreaths and as I kept going I realized that all of these designs suit me. What I found unique were the succulents and cacti. The flowers are in many different categories. There are color pictures of the finished work, then patterns to trace and detailed instructions on how to do the stitches. Now I have to think of where I'll put them. Oh yeah, there are inspirations for that in the book too. This is a good book for beginners or experienced embroidery artists.

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A beautiful book for beginner embroiderers. Easily transferable designs and even easier to understand instructions.

I may not be the biggest stitcher on the planet, but I did like this book with all the fun embroidery with plants. It has some nice sections, such as summer and autumn, which makes it easy to find something that fits together nicely. I might purchase this for a friend.

Whilst this seems like a great book from the cover, the layout is all wrong for me and I knew this the moment I started reading it. Whilst it includes colour photographs of all the motifs in the book, they are at the beginning pages of the book. Personally, I would much prefer to have these on the opposite page to the stitch guide, so I can see what I'm trying to achieve rather than having to keep flicking back to the beginning.

The book includes provides a stitch guide, explains the number of strands that can be used. Also included are 10 ideas for uses of the motifs, from oven gloves to blouses.

Each motif then gives details on what stitch to use, colour thread and the number of strands.

If the layout could be changed then this would be a great book to use.

I received this book from Netgalley in return for a honest review.