Recently, my daughters and I have found a love for embroidery so I couldn’t wait to read through this book. In fact, I bought a copy after reading the ARC because I found the book so resourceful.

This book is full of helpful information needed for beginners such as tools needed and how to use them, how to start and finish a stitch, and how to make the basic embroidery stitches with step-by-step instructions including pictures. The book also includes the patterns for each design with the floss number for easy replication.

I can’t wait to use the patterns to spruce up tea towels or pillowcases and make Christmas ornaments for my tree!

This book would make a great gift for anyone looking for cute embroidery patterns!

Thank you to NetGalley and Quarto Publishing Group for the ARC in exchange for my honest review!

This is such a fun book of cute and adorable embroidery motifs. Nihon Vogue has put together an assortment of items, animals, and people that can be embroidered quickly. For those that don't know how to embroider by hand, there are detailed instructions that you can follow. Since these are small motifs, it is a perfect beginners guide to learning how to embroider. I highly recommend this book for all that love to embroider. There are lots of different projects that can be done with these.

Thank you #NetGalley and #QuarryBooks for sending me the ebook to read and review.

This book is just too too cute! I think these little motifs are just too adorable. And there's something for every possible occasion or event! One of my biggest issues is actually trying to decide on which one to try my hand at first.

I'm not a beginner to needlework (I cross stitch) but I'm a beginner to embroidery. I found the directions on how to start and finish difficult understand, despite reading it over and over again. I wish this book came with links to a video demonstrating some of these techniques to better understand it. I've tried googling "how to start and finish embroidery stitches" but they use techniques not mentioned in this book, so I'm apprehensive to actually start.

I do like to thumb through this and imagine all the designs I'll do, but as a beginner this seems a little too advanced for me. So perhaps people who are intermediate will get more mileage out of this book.

Thank you, NetGalley for providing an eARC for me in exchange for an honest review.

While I had some difficulty perusing this book (due to the Netgalley App not being sufficient), this book was a delight. I took up embroidery during the pandemic as a way of mental stimulation and an attempt at finding a hobby. This book would have been my best friend. The creations inside are both adorable and clever. The instructions are easy to follow and help provide great insight into the world of embroidery. I would highly recommend.

A good guide for people learning to embroider but I’d prefer the ‘how to’ to appear closer to the pictures rather than having to scroll down. Great for beginners and anyone doing thread journaling.

thank you netGalley for allowing me to review this ARC. All my opinions are my own.

Very cute patterns that are pretty easy to follow. I am thankful for the instructions on how to transfer patterns, it will be a tip I'll be using often

Some cute ideas. I would have liked at least a few with step by step directions with pictures to get a better idea of how to do it. Then the rest could have still been the diagrams

A book absolutely packed full of embroidery ideas, this would make the perfect gift for someone who enjoys embroidery or is keen to get more into it. There is a break down of a few stitches, photographs of some ideas and then drawings that detail which stitches to use to create many different icons, letters and shapes. The suggested number colour for DMC thread is included too.

I want to thank Netgalley and the author for gifting me the ebook. I love this book so much! I love all the little patterns! It has everything you can imagine! The author did a great job explaining how to do certain stitches and many other information concerning embroidery. Highly recommend!

Super cute and fun! I was looking for an easy-to-understand instruction guide to spice up my clothing and this book definitely delivered! The designs are all listed at the front so you can compare them and see what you want to embroider, and then the manual for each design follows after. Each type of stitch is clearly explained, and even for a complete beginner who has never embroidered anything before, these exercises were simple to do!

Thank you Netgalley for this ARC!
This is the book I didn't know I needed ! I absolutely loved the little design inside. They are so cute et seems fairly easy to do for the beginner that I am. I like that there is not too much text and the picture speak for themselves. It is really straightforward in the explanation. Also there is a little guide about the different kind of stitch and how to make them that I found well explained.
Really loved it and going to add it to my wishlist for Christmas! Curious to see more books like it !

This book is so fun! Do you want ideas to add something cute to your clothes, tote bags, and anything else that you can think of? This book is so full of fun things to add flair and personality to your stuff. If you pick this up, be warned that you will get the itch to add these to almost everything in your home!

If you asked me to name 100 cute things, I don't think I could. Nihon Vogue has not only named 550 cute things but has created embroidery patterns for them. A lovely table of contents in color of each design is browsable at the front of the book. This leads to a stitch guide for the embroidery techniques used, how to transfer designs, tools that are handy to have and tips to create your own cute embroidery projects. Next comes the designs in an outline for easy outlining and transferring to your fabric. Accompanying pages include another outline of the design with a guide to the stitches and colors used to create it.

Beautifully laid out, illustrated and photographed, this book is a great one to have in your library. I plan on going through my wardrobe and using these designs to cover small holes and stains, or embroider the colors and hems of my garments.

This book is so cute! I love that you get color images of each design, but also a grey-scale version with the stiches needed. It also teaches the different stitches with text and pictures so it would be great for beginners. My mom loves embroidered jeans and I can't wait to make her something beautiful!

I love embroidery and this book had lots of cute embroidery designs. It is definitely full of inspiration but I personally thought there was too many designs which seemed to overload me. I would have preferred less designs and more instructions. Also more pictures of finished projects would have been good.

A lot of work has sent into the book and this shows, Definitely suits a more competent stitcher maybe a bit daunting for the less experienced.

I received a copy of this book through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This is a cute book!

The book has pictures of the designs in the front and then breaks down how to do them. The book contains information on each stitch with a template of how to use them for the different icons. There's a variety of icons in this book - foods, animals, plants, etc. I would have liked a little more variety, but what is in the book is very cute.

Overall a nice find, but maybe not for brand new beginners.

This is a good book of how to embroider a bunch of small designs. They are grouped as motifs, flowers, foods, animals, life, sports, hobbies, borders, alphabets, childhood, and people.
The book does show a full color photo of each design, and later on there is a template, and a drawing that shows the floss color and stitch type. Pages in between have color photos of how to do the stitches. I wish the color photo and instructions were on the same page. I feel like if I were using this book, I'd be flipping back and forth.
Overall helpful but I don't know that the book is detailed or easy enough for a complete beginner to follow.

A cute guide with instructions and simple diagrams and templates. Perfect for beginners or intermediate embroiderers who want to try creating their own designs with a bit of direction.

This book is brimming with ideas of novel things to embroider. Some are incredibly simple, such as a milk jug, while others are more complex, such as a chicken in a hot air balloon. The designs are from different artists but work together and are accompanied by instructions on how to complete the different stitches, which are clear and easy to follow. There are also ideas for how to decorate clothes and other items with the embroidery. My only criticism is that the template and instructions for completing each project are separate from the picture of the completed item. To fully make sense of the stitch instructions, I know I will have to keep alternating between the template and the photograph. Nonetheless this is a really good book that avoids the trap of being too kitch or twee.

A great reference and resource book for those just beginning to embroider. I've been using it to teach several young ladies their needle arts and we have all agreed this book is a winner!