This is a lovely little book of embroidery patterns, designed and embroidered by several different artists. While fairly similar - they're all realistic depictions of different plants, from roses to foliage to succulents - their styles differ slightly, which is nice.
The instructions are in the second half of the book, where each page is reproduced twice - once with line drawings alone, to be copied and transferred to projects and once with line drawings accompanied by short lists of which stick to use on each part, how many strands of floss to use where, and the color of floss used.

I would've liked to have seen more finished projects which included the patterns, but that's just me.
Overall, a good resource.

This is a nice compilation of patterns for flowers, fruits, houseplants, etc. to embroider, with color illustrations of them first as embroidered designs and then with line drawings showing their basic shapes with info on stitches to use later in the book. They are grouped by categories, like cacti, wildflowers, fruits, etc. They tend towards very detailed. The leaf shapes and other ID characteristics are generally very authentic, although the leaf shape of clover seems wrong (clover leaves are actually oval and not the heart shape that is so popular in clover and St. Patrick's Day designs, which is more like the look of wood sorrel). I appreciated the wildflower and mushroom designs especially, though I wish there were far more since those are my particular loves.

All in all, this is a lovely book with a nice assortment of beautiful botanical designs and also sweet little potted plants and such. The retail price $21.95 seems a little high for a book that has so much similar competition, but it's a wonderful resource.

I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for the purpose of review.

This book was filled with great pictures, cute inspirations/ideas and easy to follow directions. As someone who has never tried embroidery but has always been interested, I feel like this book will help me find a project and teach me how to complete it confidently. There are some truly beautiful designs in this book.