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

This is a great book for anyone looking for small designs to stitch. There are a variety of subjects covered including designs for babies, cute forest animals, circus and more sophisticated flowers and trees. There is also a collection of ideas for these designs and my favourites are the wood necklaces and brooches. Simple designs stitched onto thin balsa wood. I have made these and given them as much appreciated gifts.Good value for money and the accompanying CD allows you to enlarge the designs easily and print out your own larger patterns using a mixture of the designs available.

This is a fabulous book and I would not hesitate in recommending it. Anyone with an interest in sewing will love this book. It has 100's of embroidery motifs both on a cd attached to the back of the book and the motifs are also included in full colour in the book itself, so you can trace them out or print them off in larger scale if you need to. Very inspirational book. Lovely to give as a gift or to just add to your collection!!

I bought this book swayed by its cute and colourful front cover, and intriguing title. I wanted to do some needlework, but to try some which looked cute, fun and (most of all) modern. If you are a little nervous, this book is fantastic for giving you the confidence to have a go yourself, and the author goes out of her way to make you realise how easy it is and want to start experimenting, rather than working rigidly to a complicated pattern.There is perhaps a slight tendency to start reading through the book, and love it, and then turn eagerly over the page to find that it is full of pages and pages of what looks like the clip art you can find on your computer. At this point there is a slight danger of wondering to yourself whether you needed the book in the first place, or could perhaps have worked it out for yourself and then traced some cute designs of your own. So the simplicity is both its greatest asset and drawback at the same time.So as long as you discover from reading the reviews that this book is mainly full of really cute and funky little line drawings, and only a relatively few pages of 'How To' then you won't be disappointed. That said, the section where different embroidery stitches are discussed, is very clear and well explained, with nice colour diagrams which are very helpful.The designs really are very lovely, particularly the natural woodland sections, and an oriental 'Asian chic' section. This would also be a fantastic book for young adults who like more modern projects, as well as having lots of lovely designs to stitch as fabulous presents for children's rooms. The enclosed CD is a nice idea for enlarging the templates, although you will need your own image editing software to make the designs bigger / rotate them / group them as promised in the instructions, as the CD seems to only contain clipart.The book is bright, colourful and very very cute, and is designed to get you started, and then the author happily waves you off to go experiment and have fun yourself.

I bought her first book and I got this one to inspire me further. I love the style of the drawings and the colours. A lot of them look really cute. I particularly like the ones of nature. I would like a further motif book on transport ie cars, bicycles, planes, helicopters, etc and technology ie computers, lawnmowers, mobile phones, office ie working environment as many designed for children in mind. And religious motifs would be good ie christian, buddhist, hindu etc to bring more culturally diverse projects.Another motif chapter on sports would be good. A brilliant book, even if we don't get another motif book, the book gives an idea of how to do them. I have been showing lots of people this book and they love it.Update. I am now working through the stitches and can now do stem stitch which is simple quick and attractive. Did try to do the French Knot one but gave up and ended up looking on Youtube.I take this book during work.. when it gets boring and quiet and the beautiful stitching makes my enjoy my day more. When I finish work, I feel more inspired, as my creativity is suppressed at work.

I've just started to have a go at freehand embroidery and wanted a book with ideas and basic knowledge. Hoped this would be okay and very glad I purchased it. Lots of ideas and designs that can be traced. Come with a cd (although haven't got around to looking at that). Nice pictures and good information. I will find this book very useful and would recommend.

Huge variety of images to copy and different projects to follow. There is a cd to download the images to your computer as well. The only downside I would say is that on the library of images at the back there are no hints or suggestions as to which stitch to use but that is such a minor point.

I don't embroider much. I love the look of little quirky bits of embroidery that seem to be the rage these days and wanted to learn. I found the instructions are easy to follow and the CD with the stored image has been a real life saver. My only gripe is that the print settings don't always print out to the size I would like it to be! i.e the 1/2 page is really more of a 1/4 page when printed up in print size. Otherwise amazing and one book in my collection that I go back to quite often.

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.

Love love love

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