Zakka Embroidery: Simple One- and Two-Color Embroidery Motifs and Small Crafts (Make Good: Japanese Craft Style)

I love everything about this book! The look, the shape, and oh yeah the content! The designs are stunningly simplistic and actually doable for someone who had no embroidery experience!! I am having so much fun creating my Christmas presents this year and this is definitely a new look at embroidering! The designs are modern and eclectic! There are easy to follow guides complete with instructions for the stitches used in the book! I am an embroidering convert! Aaaand the things I am creating actually look like the ones in the book!

The aspect I love best is the Arts-and-Crafts-Movement inspired designs: tidy, abstracted florals with great impact. I admire the artist's style and the wide range of applications she has provided. I have plans for linen shirts, and this style of embroidery should hold up to gentle laundering very well.

I make sachet bundles for the house and for pagan rituals. I like to add a bit of embroidery to them when I am done. What I like most about this is the design sensibility. Lots of clean lines and images that are spare but engaging. Exactly what I was looking for, already practicing my French knots! :)

This is a fabulous book any embroidery enthusiast will enjoy. Highly recommend. 💥💯💥

In spite of my huge disappointment (to follow) I still enthusiastically recommend this book for all who love to embroider. The designs are stunning and beautifully photographed and the clear instructions enable even a fairly inexperienced embroiderer to succeed. Simple projects accompany each design, also very appealing and quick to complete, again with excellent instructions. However, the patterns are printed so close to the binding they cannot be fully accessed even when forcing the book to open flat. In desperation I resorted to removing the pattern pages using a scalpel. Even then, portions of some designs were lost in the binding. If a spiral bound format is available that would be the perfect solution. The book otherwise deserves a 5 star rating for sure.

Glad I bought this book. The designs are small, simple and elegant - creatively displayed in the first half of the book, with full sized patterns at the back. The designs are simple enough for a beginner who has practiced the stitches. The simple embroidery stitches may be learned best through a tutorial online as it's often difficult to convey (and learn) sewing through still photos and text.

Beautiful designs

This little book is so BIG on everything! Zakka Embroidery is filled with lots of patterns that are paired with sewing and craft patterns, however the patterns provide a springboard for your own sewing and craft projects. It's a terrific resource! The simplicity of the one or two color patterns contain both Japanese and Scandinavian influences. Easily my favorite embroidery book!

Libro per appassionati e per principianti. tutti e sempi con un colore, e con due colori e 4-5 punti massimo. belle spiegazioni, belle foto. Libro consigliato.

I loved this book and already finished my first project. It was worthy of buying.

Hermosos todos los libros de bordado de Yumiko Higuchi, la fotografía , los diseños todo me encanto....la combinación de colores y lo fácil para poder hacerlos

Es una artista genial, buenos dibujos de su estilo puedes perfectamente hacer plantillas y dicen como hacerlo ...quizas no es para principiante tiene que saber bordar algo, llego el envio muy rapido

Het zijn voor mij hele nieuwe patronen, mooi door eenvoud.