Kew Book of Embroidered Flowers, The: 11 inspiring projects with reusable iron-on transfers

It’s a lovely book with good transfers, but it is quite expensive at ~$30 and each project calls for an absurd number of skeins. That and the intermediate ones require silk thread from France at $5 a skein! Further - the author doesn’t repeat the colors! So you buy $100+ for thread and you use hardly any and the next project requires even more thread! I have spent hours just figuring out the thread situation. She does give conversions. I’m seriously thinking she was paid by the thread companies to include so many brands with so many colors which don’t overlap…

This is the most stunning teaching book I have ever received. I love the thick outer cover that conceals the perfect book inside. It comes with an elastic page holder, huge pictures for all the details, wonderful instructions plus you get iron on transfers. Thank you so much for all the thoughtful work that went into creating this book. I'm about to order more!!

This book just came today, and it is absolutely exquisite. Page after page of beautiful designs! As I flipped through it, I could see so many of the patterns on blouses, and slacks and wall hangings for gifts...just looking at it quickly made me wonder what I should do with all my other embroidery books. It is on the expensive side, but in my opinion, well worth the extra couple of dollars. It hits all of my creative buttons for embroidery. An excellent purchase to be treasured.

Stunning photos, instructions and re-usable iron-on transfers are provided for numerous projects. If you love to embroider flowers then don'hestiate to add this to your collection. Pretty enough to display it on your coffee table. These are prints are inspired by the botanical prints collection found at the Kew Gardens in London.

This is a fabulous book! It takes you all the way from total beginner to accomplished needlewoman (or man), and the designs are so beautiful. It's quite a hefty 176 pages, because each project has page after page of very detailed instructions and full color illustrations. I think this is Trish Burr's masterwork. By the way, I hear that some folks have been asking about the blank pages between the transfers. They are just there to protect against smudging.

This book is excellent! I learn a lot from this book! I highly recommend it to every one who wants to improve their embroidery skills.

The designs are lovely. The instructions bare minimum and not as thorough as in her other book I have (Whitework with Color). What dropped it to 3 stars was the totally inadequate iron on ink. As you can see from my picture I had to go over the ink to see it and copy picture by hand. For prove of the book it was very disappointing.

Stunning presentation and extremely detailed instructions, with different complexity levels (yet all breathtaking). Perfect present for flower-lover embroiderers.

Um livro maravilhoso e perfeito, com projetos lindíssimos muito bem explicados, tem riscos, transfer, é uma maravilha q qualquer bordadeira precisa ter!!

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This book for me has a few niggles that knocks it down from a five star book to a four (although for me it is a three). If you have good eyesight then my biggest gripe may not apply.I find the typeface so tiring to read that it spoils the book for me. I have generally old eyes that show their age so attach a photograph from this book that I find difficult to read and one from a stumpwork book I own that I have no difficulty reading. My eyes are still good enough that with the aid of readers and a nice magnifying lamp I can work split stitch with a single thread from a six strand cotton (short periods only and tiring but I can do it).The font is small at around 23 letters to the inch, very squashed up making words with the letter 'i' difficult especially next to the 't' which has hardly any cross bar. The lettering is very thin and looks grey rather than black. Add to that some areas where it is printed on a little grey box and squintville became my home for the day. The other text I attached is blacker, thicker, larger, and with more defined shapes e.g. the cross bar on the letter t.Another niggle, a small one, is that the list of DMC threads for each project are just lists of numbers. I would have liked a little colour block next to each one, or a description of colour, to make it easier to follow the instructions without a DMC colour sample card in hand. The instructions are mainly a line diagram with numbering to denote the order of work along with numbers for the colours used.There are lots of nice photographs which form an integral part of the colour placement instructions. There are some nicely blown up photographs to show the shading, stitch direction etc. The designs are mostly realistic floral and progress in difficulty through the book. The level of difficulty increases, I think, with size of project, a few more colours to blend, and more difficult and complex shapes to work e.g. a pansy hasn't got too many over lapping areas whereas a rose has many petals to work in a way that shows depth.Trish Burr's work is beautiful and I like the designs as I am fond of florals in general. The transfers have nice fine lines suitable for single strand of six strand cotton or the silk threads that some of the patterns use. Threads are easy to obtain in the UK, the usual difficulty (nothing to do with this book) of finding a suitably fine Church linen arises although cotton can be used.

beautiful images and easy to use

This book is really beautiful. You are told which colour threads to use. I am sure you could make alterations if you didn't have the exact colour. The flowers are beautiful and the embroidery work excellent. You are shown the stitches used in detail. I am very pleased with this purchase. There are iron on transfers separate from the book. I just hope I have the time to create some of these flowers. I am sure with the knowledge learnt from this book it would be possible to create your own flower designs.