Embroidery books
 

Looking for a book on the basics. Can anyone recommend a good one

How basic do you need? Beginning stitches? Projects from start to finish? Redwork, modern, english, transfers, counted cross stitch.......there are a raft out there.

For stitches ONLY I like Mary Webb's Embroidery Stitches 400 Contemporary and Traditional Stitch Patterns. Stitches are arranged in categories and ranked by difficulty. The first chapter covers many of the basics. I got mine at abebooks.com. It has stitches,not projects.

Mary Thomas Dictionary of Embroidery Stitches has the 'look inside' feature at Amazon.com. If I were buying I'd seriously consider it. Besides the stitches, examples are pictured. It is a newly revised edition of a classic.

Not really a book but this site has a lot of great videos and some free patterns. Also if you do a search on youtube you will find many more.

http://www.needlenthread.com/

Happy Stitching

PS if you have a smart phone there are several apps that show you videos of stitches some are for a fee and a few are free.

Tammy

There's plenty of info. on the web. General instructions will come with your machine.

I love Judith Montano's books. She has out several different ones. She shows in detail how to do the stitches.

I guess I should have been specific in talking machine embroidery