Fab read. Could not put down. Highly recommended to all. Believable characters. Great author. Will be watching out for more titles.

This book offers intricate patterns for the experienced stitcher. The creations are lovely but appear to be time consuming. Great for those wanting some challenging needle work!

Full of beautiful illustrations and easy to follow tutorials, Kristen Gula's 200 Embroidered Flowers is a very nice instruction book to assist you learning how to create new needlework designs from the basic embroidery stitches. It will help expand your knowledge and creative library.
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What a great resource! Great flowers. Patterns are super simple to draw yourself so it's not really necessary to trace each page.

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Learn how to stitch all your favourite flowers, leaves and foliage, with this is collection of tutorials for 200 embroidered flowers and foliage. Discover how to stitch beautiful blooms including roses, daisies, daffodils, pansies and buttercups as well as more exotic blooms.

Modern hand embroidery expert, Kristen Gula, shows you how to create all the floral motifs from a stitch library of less than 10 embroidery stitches.

As well as the step tutorials for the flowers and leaves, there are 10 projects for home decor items and accessories that showcase the embroidery so you can show off your makes and create beautiful gifts for family and friends. Choose from a collar motif, pillow cover, table decoration, shoe embellishments and many more!

Wonderful book full of very descriptive patterns and colors to make a very wide selection of flowers. Even if you are new to embroidery this book is a wonderful guide!

I recieved an advance reader copy in exchange for a fair review.

Chock full of adorable flower patterns, each with a reference drawing and a photo of the finished product. Plus helpful tips for beginning embroiderers, and a few projects to get you started.

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A large colorful catalog of beautiful patterns of flowers for embroidered for any level of expertise. .

I highly, highly recommend this book if you like embroidering flowers, or are looking to try something new. The flowers depicted are all ones I know or have heard of, and some I even own. The embroidered results look good, and realistic to the flower. I could easily embroider a table cloth to match the plant it's paired with, or add some flowers people will recognize to a project for variety. The designs are relatively simple, and a beginner should be able to attempt a few of them while learning. The layout is easy to follow, and sticks to a simple presentation of pattern, description and picture on one page, keeping the amount of flipping around to find things to a minimum. Definitely give this a look!

This is a wonderful book, beautifully illustrate with step by step instructions. There are many chapters divided by seasons or climatic regions, the flowers are not big but can be enlarged,for bigger projects - and there are a collection of projects that uses the flowers to make gifts, or just lift your favourite article of clothing. with.
I really like this book it easily stitched and there are all sort of flowers, leaves and cacti in the mix. Love it

This is a collection of 200 tutorials, taught by hand embroidery expert, Kristen Gula. Through these lessons, Kristen will teach you how to stitch all of your favorite flowers, leaves, and foliage. You’ll learn the art of creating flowers like roses, buttercups, pansies, daisies, and daffodils, in addition to the more exotic blooms, all from a stitch library of less than ten stitches. These tutorials will walk you through the creation of these blossoms step by step, so you’ll never have a doubt as to what you should do next. In addition to the tutorials, there are also ten home decor and accessories projects included do that you can showcase the things you’ve learned, as well written as make beautiful handmade gifts for your family and friends. The pictures in this book are beautiful and really inspire you to want to work on these stitches. And, the step by step instructions are easy to follow. Even beginner embroiderers should find it fairly simple to accomplish these projects because of how straightforwardly they’re laid out. Each flower includes a short text with information about the plant, a carefully labeled pattern telling you which stitch to use in each area and how many strands of thread to use, a color legend, and a picture of the finished blossom so you can make sure that it turned out correctly. As an added convenience, there’s a stitch guide at the bottom of every set of 2 pages. This way you won’t have to flip back and forth between where you are in the instructions and the beginning, thus risking losing your place. I can already see how the skills learned in these tutorials will definitely be useful in my crafting and I’m excited about using these patterns and stitches. I hope you find it as easy to use and as valuable a resource as I have.

Thank you to NetGalley, the author and the Publisher for this review copy, given in exchange for an honest review.

What a beautiful book. I haven’t done much embroidery, but it does look so nice when it’s done right. This book is the ideal book for teaching you how to do that. It has easy instructions and clear colour photos. There is page after page of different flowers to embroider, each with their own traceable pattern and a photo of the end product. The instructions at the beginning show you how to trace the patterns onto your material and shows the different stitiches required. At the end of the book are a few projects to try and they all look amazing – I particularly loved the embroidered collar on the shirt which looks stunning!

I would say it’s aimed at intermediate level and above, although I’m sure a beginner would be able to pick it up and still be able to follow the instructions. It makes you want to embroider flowers onto everything just by looking through it! Wonderful!

A charming collection of flowers, leaves, and fruit, all available as line drawings to transfer to fabric for embroidery. That's the meat of the book. I'm afraid much of the rest is sketchy in content and not terribly useful to beginners.

While the instructions for transferring designs aren't bad, they are incomplete and not illustrated. The stitch choices are few and the instructions poor. While there is a list of color numbers for each flower, there are no instructions for stitching. Gula provides stitching instructions so slight as to be embarrassing -- outline the drawing, then fill in. The reader is never told what stitches she uses, what colors the numbers refer to, or even where the color goes. I guess she assumes the reader will figure this out. However in 20 years of teaching needlework I have learned it's better to err on the side of more information, not less.

The projects seem nice, but once again the instructions are poor.

Buy this book for the line drawings, not for anything else.

Cute with lots of different flowers to create.

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This is a truly beautiful book which would appeal to both beginner and the more experience stitcher . It is a very easy to follow guide to modern embroidery and the descriptions and photography is first class. As a beginner I appreciated the detailed descriptions which made me feel I could try out the projects .

The majority of the book is devoted to individual flowers. The variety and beauty of each flower (200 in all) is breathtaking. The beautiful projects showcase the endless possibilities once you have embroidered some of the flowers.

This book is truly a work of art and the imagination and expertise of the author shines through on each page. I can't wait to try out some of the projects and will be dipping into the book now and in the future.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publishers for the chance to read this wonderful book

This is a lovely book for embroiderers of varying abilities. The illustrations and photographs are bright and appealing to all stitchers and flower lovers.

Gula explains her techniques clearly and without fuss, which is a massive plus for me!

I would certainly recommend this to all embroidery addicts.

200 Embroidered FLowers by Kristen Gula is a wonderful reference book for anyone who likes to embroider, likes flowers or both! The flower patterns are clear and easy to follow and the list of projects to embroider are delightful.
I feel that anyone, from a novice to a pro, can benefit from reading this book. I can't wait to use some of the patterns when I next decide to sew!

200 Embroidered Flowers is a great resource for any stitcher. Gula's put together an incredibly varied set of patterns that can be used in any context. You have your standard favourites like daffodils and sunflowers and roses, beautiful special flowers like chinese lantern, tropical plants, fruits and vegetables, and even cacti, succulents and mushrooms! There's such a huge range you're sure to find a suitable flower for whatever you're working on.

The book starts out with a brief series of photographic instructions on the stitches used to make the designs. My only criticism of this book is that the number of stitches used is quite limited, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Beginner embroiderers will find it easy to tackle any of the patterns because the stitches aren't complex, and advanced readers will find the flowers quick and easy to construct, which is always nice in such a slow art.

Each flower includes a short piece of text with details about the plant, a labelled pattern telling you what stitch to use on each area, and how many strands, a colour legend, and a photograph of the finished design. Each double page spread has a key to the stitch types at the bottom so you don't end up flipping back and forth through the book, which is a nice touch. With only two flowers to a page, the patterns are a good size and the lines are clear and easy to copy or trace.

I would be perfectly happy with just the individual designs, but the book finishes up with some projects too. These are, in my opinion, a bit old-fashioned (I'm a big old nerd and even I'm not going to embroidered flowers on my collar), but they are really useful as examples on how to combine the patterns into a more complex design. I particularly enjoy the cacti and succulents on a tote.

In short, this is a great resource for anyone wanting to embroider flowers of any kind and I would highly recommend it.

This book is all about enabling us to be able to begin embroidery and specifically, flowers of various sorts.



This book gives us a start up guide to stitches to use and how to go about making them as well as project ideas for incorporating our work into day to day life items.


In particular I liked the rainbow rose, Zinnia, Sunflower, Strawberry and Sea Holly embroidery the best and shall be having a go myself at trying to recreate them.



The book reads like a fact file you can dip in and out of at anytime with colourful images of flowers you can take inspiration from.



Many thanks to the publishers for allowing me to review this book for them!

200 Embroidered Flowers has instructions on how to make some really cool looking embroidered flower designs.  This isn't something I have tried to do before, but the way the book explains all the knots and stitchings in the beginning of the book makes it seem like this is something I might be able to try out! Of course, I had to check to see if there was a pansy design included and was happy to see that there was - and a hop plant as well! Maybe I'll soon be on my way to a Hanson themed embroidered flower display...

In addition to Hops and Pansy's just about any other flower or plant you could imagine was included - aloe, african voilets, cactus, etc! and they even have some done on tote bags instead of embroidery hooks. Lots of great and wonderful designs if you are looking for flowers of all shapes, sizes and colors.

I received a free e-copy of this book in order to write this review, I was not otherwise compensated.

200 Embroidered Flowers is a lushly illustrated freehand surface embroidery tutorial book from first time author Kristen Gula, published by F+W Media and due out 5th June, 2018.

Aimed at beginners, she spends a fair bit of time introducing materials and includes a good basic compilation of stitches with photos and descriptions. Roughly 14% of the page content is devoted to thoroughly explaining the basics and techniques as well as material selection.

The majority of the content is devoted to the individual flowers, ~60%. The sections are arranged by seasons and further subdivided into flowers and foliage sections. Each of the individual entries is accompanied by a basic pattern line drawing, suggested colors and stitches, and a picture of the potential finished project.

It's a very systematic and organized book and fun to look at.

The individual flowers and plants are followed by suggested projects, including some surface embroidered clothing (jeans, blouse, hat), a nifty canvas tote, and some really appealing and colorful espadrilles.

The author's style is chatty and encouraging and very informal. I also really liked it that many of the individual flower entries included botanically accurate names for further research and reference photo hunting.

The book ends with a short author bio and artist statement, along with a no-nonsense basic index.

Very good, very basic, very appealing embroidery book. 144 pages, ebook and softbound formats.

Five stars