Doodle Stitching: The Motif Collection: 400+ Easy Embroidery Designs

Love this book! I have been waiting for a book like this to come out for a while ... a book that has lots of little motifs in it that are perfect for embellishing projects. And that is exactly what this book is .. a book filled with 400+ different motifs that you can use to make your projects. Also included are 17 different projects using the motifs.The motifs come on a CD-ROM --- I have not tried out the CD-ROM yet, but I am looking forward to trying it out, and hoping that it will allow me to resize the patterns any way I see fit. In addition to the projects, this book contains a how-to section that is an expanded version of the how-to section from her first book.The rest of the book has lots of fun pictures and line colored drawings of each motif. Each motif is numbered (I am assuming for reference) -- there are 450 motifs altogether, but keep in mind that the first 52 are letters (an upper case, and a lower case alphabet). The motifs are divided up in the book by category. The categories included are: alphabet, asian chic, baby, celebrations, circus, embellishments, farm anials, flowers, food, fruits & veggies, garden time, space, sweet shoppe, trees & leaves, under the sea, weather, winged wonders, woodland animals, woodland fairytale.I really love all of the motifs and Aimee's wonderfully whimsical style! The only thing that is "missing" from this book would be a holiday category .....I would love to see another book, just like this one (also done by Aimee) devoted solely to holiday motifs. Maybe it could be called "Doodle Stitching: The Holiday Motif Collection" ... just a little hint to the publishers/author ... :)Very well done, a must for your embroidery library!

I am two weeks into learning how to hand-embroider. I purchased both of Aimee Ray's books along with a couple of the Sublime Stitching books. While I not knocking Sublime Stitching at all, I was more inspired by the whimsical "doodling" projects and patterns from Aimee Ray. I guess for me, it let me think of embroidery as more of a free-handed piece of art rather than following a pattern.The instructional section is brief, but helpful. Personally, I preferred to look up videos of the stitches on-line to better teach myself. The CD is fantastic- it contains all of the motifs as large, scalable .TIFF files. Hooray!!! If you have certain photo-editing software, you can open several designs and arrange them to form a whole little scene. (I'm thinking of turning the gnome & mushroom pages into a table runner!)Her designs are adorable. I can picture them on everything from napkins to clothing. I agree with another poster that a book of seasonal designs would be great!As a beginning embroiderer, I would definitely recommend both of Aimee Ray's books be added to your library!

I bought this book looking for cute, fun patterns and that's what I got. There are tons of motifs in several categories that would be easy to combine to make your own patterns.I don't have image editing software on my current computer so I didn't find the included CD that helpful but it does enlarge the images which would make them easier to trace and transfer by hand.I bought the Sublime Stitching book as well and it does not compare - the so called motifs in that book are one step above stick figure drawings. Doodle Stitching has several project ideas that can help get your creative juices flowing. Sublime Stitching has no project ideas and very few pictures.I also like how Aimee Ray includes the motifs in color which is helpful for beginners who want extra guidance when choosing colors.Overall a great book for beginners, I have already recommended it to several friends!

I bought this book after comparing Amiee Ray's two available embroidery books and I'm glad that so many customers commented about the fact that the original Doodle Stitching book was more inspirational and less workbook. This book is a great companion - or a standalone - if you like Ray's style (which I do :D)The motifs are blessedly simple, consistent with her style, versatile, and the accompanying CD is such a bonus. Being able to resize and combine the motifs with ease really is what sells this book and I wish many other motif books would follow suit (or be printed in a spiral bound book).I would recommend this for any embroidery lover who was looking to get some stitching done with ease and enjoyment.New to the craft? TAKE NOTE: This books is just motifs and includes little to no instruction on the art of hand embroidery. If you're not familiar with embroidery stitches, you'll need a bit of help to use the motifs. I didn't find this an issue (actually a plus, I hate to flip through HALF a book to get to the stuff that's relevant to me), but newbies may.

This is my third book on contemporary embroidery. I really enjoy the format of the book, the simple tutorials on different stitches (with colored floss, which is much nicer than hand drawn diagrams), and the cute variety of doodles. The idea of including a disc with the templates for all the doodles is fantastic! They are organized into convenient categories such as Asian chic, flowers, woodland creatures, and more.The only reason for the 4 star review is the ease of use for the digital templates. They are very large files with NO TRANSPARENCY!!! So even if you scale each layer down using a photo editing program, there is no way to overlap or combine templates without them blanking out the adjacent image. Luckily I am pretty handy with photo editing and have changed most of the templates I like to have transparency in PNG format so I can combine them and move them around as I like. Some images burn out or have very faint lines if they are reduced too small, so I work on a large background to try avoiding that.SO if it weren't for the technical frustrations, this book would have gotten 5 plus stars from me! I hope the author reads some reviews and continues making changes with each excellent book she releases. I'm looking forward to the next collection of motifs!

Full of wonderful doodles to inspire your creatively

Entrega foi rápida, bem embalado e fácil de higienizar.Material do livro ótimo, cores vibrantes, inglês fácil de traduzir.Explicação do texto clara que pode ser entendida por quem estar iniciando no bordado.

Esta divino este libro, esta precioso aunque sea solo para verlo. Tiene cosas super lindas. Aunque hay mucho de este libro en internet ya. De todas formas es super lindo tener el libro y en verdad que es un caramelo para los ojos ver cada hoja. Aun no bordo nada pero estoy segura que tomare alguna imagen.

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Molto bello, edizione perfetta, però i motivi per i bebè sono pochi.