Beginner’s Guide to Machine Embroidered Flowers by Alison Holt, softback published by Search Press. ISBN 978-1-84448-058-6, price 9.99 from www.searchpress.com
This is an excellent follow-on from Alison’s Machine Embroidered Landscapes book (see other reviews for all three books and DVD). Most basic machines can handle this type of free-motion embroidery and Alison provides you with the know-how to produce incredibly detailed flowers.
The book follows the same format as the first giving the basics of getting started in machine embroidery and silk painting. Discover how to paint with your machine, how to group plants and leaves and how to combine stitches. There are three how to’s to produce beautiful flower embroideries and numerous other examples of work in full colour in this brilliant 80-page book, perfect for machine embroiderers of all skill levels.