Embroidered Treasures: Flowers: Exquisite Needlework of the Embroiderers' Guild Collection

Very nice. Bought it as a gift and the person who received it was very happy.

This is a two part folder. The left side is a stitching guide, the right has the reusable transfers

I would purchase them again

While this book has no patterns or instructions, it is still a worthwhile book to have in your library. There is a huge range of embroidery styles that are both modern and historical. Some of the examples are very unusual and the materials that were used to create projects is out of the mainstream.

The designs are wonderful.

I had this on my list here to buy for a while, then saw it locally and bought it. Sorry Amazon! It's a beautiful set of books - one with color illustrations and one with the transfers in a slipcase. A great addition to an embroidery library. My problem is with the transfers. Many off them are just way too small to be embroidered. Maybe if you were a better embroiderer than I am, but even then, you couldn't keep the detail. I don't know what they were thinking. I suppose you could scan and enlarge them, but that defeats the purpose of them being iron-ons. But I'm glad I bought it and will use the larger transfers!

The product is packaged as a portfolio, one side sleeving a very nice book of instructions. The other sleeve contains the reusable line designs for the embroidery.

Hmm....got rather mixed feelings about this one. I have been waiting for it to come out for quite a while and was really looking forward to it, but now it has finally arrived and despite wanting to love it, find I am struggling to be anything other than a bit underwhelmed if I'm honest, and as I can't give it 3.5 stars, have plumped for 4, as 3 would be a bit unfair, although I think it's "probably" one of those things that some people will either "really" like or "really" won't!.Ok, so firstly what's to like about it?. Well it's beautifully presented, like you can see from the pictures they are showing, as essentially a glossy, hardback folder, which on opening contains two booklets, one a "Stitching Guide", a slim volume of 48 pages which gives you the essential tools, materials, methods and stitch diagrams, in order to work the designs - and I mean "essential", this is not going to inform you of anything further than just:-One page - Basic fabric, threads, needles and toolsOne page - Using a hot iron transferOne page - Using an embroidery hoopThen comes 8 pages of stitch diagrams - which are a nice size and very clear to understand, and finally, 23 pages about embroidering the designs - from the perspective of choice of/ using stitches a certain way, choice of colours and threads, ideas about adapting, rearranging, combining designs or using them as "a repeat", and showing the effect of using a different colour background fabric and so on - all very useful information, although I have to say in reality, all of that sounds a lot more in depth than it actually is.Then you have the second booklet of the iron on transfers themselves, and there are a lot more transfers than are just shown worked in the stitching guide, although for some reason it is saying there are 90, but the transfers are all numbered and there are actually 93!, in practice, you get one very large design on one page, two medium sized designs on another page, and nine much smaller designs together on another, and so on. The style of the designs are also very varied indeed, there are individual motifs, lots of borders, main panels and some "overall" designs too, but they are all presented completely at random, with no particular theme, style, or split into any specific sections, and the book says that the designs range between those from the 1920s to the 1960s, so for example, there are some 1950s style cats, some Art Nouveau/Art Deco type motifs, a few that look a little bit Medieval, Elizabethan and Jacobean in style, and a few that I would call your typical "vintage tray/table cloth" fodder!, and all the transfers are - it says - reusable up to 7 or 8 times!.So what don't I like?. Well although the whole layout of large, glossy folder, and 2 well laid out booklets is very appealing and you really "want" it to be something special you are going to enjoy using, I just feel the overall content is rather uninspiring really, and as that is afterall the "main event", it unfortunately renders the whole thing a bit disappointing. I mean, the vast majority of the designs provided are not particularly things you would be in a desperate hurry to stitch, and I am struggling to think of why I would use most of them, in fact I have just flicked through now and counted only 13 I would like, and of those, only 2 are ok to use just as they are, 4 I would want to adapt using only bits of them, and then there is another problem with the remaining 7, as it seems quite clear they were once originally much larger scale designs that have been reduced in size to fit in the book, and the problem with that is, once you have made a large design small, all the elements of it then become more tightly packed together, which not only makes the design look more crowded, but also makes it very difficult to stitch too - unless you enjoy working on such a small scale while using only 1 strand of thread (I know I don't!), and a problem too of what then do you actually "do" with such a small intense piece of stitching?, there doesn't seem any "point" to it, so I really think you would have no choice but to enlarge those designs yourself if you wanted to do anything "useful" with them. Also - and I do feel really mean saying this but wouldn't be giving a truthful review if I didn't mention it - I can't honestly say I was particularly impressed by the "beautifully worked examples" of the embroidered pieces shown either, maybe it's just me?, but most of it just looks quite clumsily stitched in a rather unskilled manner, so that was a bit disappointing too!.All that said, if you are looking for a collection of embroidery transfers that are a bit different to the norm, perhaps enjoy putting together your own designs, or even better, are happy to manipulate what is here to use not necessarily "as" transfers, you will definitely find something to like, and as "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" anyway, I am quite sure that other people will get this, really love it, and wonder what on earth I'm going on about, in which case great, I really hope you enjoy it, but as far as I am concerned, sadly I just can't help feeling left a bit lacklustre.

The designs are interesting although it would’ve been nice to have a paper copy of them too as the transfers can only be used a few times, although it’s not exactly difficult to take a tracing.The book that comes with it for me was a waste of time, it doesn’t have sewn versions of all the designs, I’m guessing this is because it is leaving you to do your own interpretation but not everyone wants to do that or isn’t yet confident enough to be able to. So good designs but the rest feels a bit like I’ve paid for things I didn’t need.

When I buy a book from the Embroiderers Guild, I know I am going to be inspired for hours. I knew this book was coming out and was looking forward to it, specially as it included actual transfers which are not so easy to find these days. Reading it was "rediscovered treasures to transfer & stitch", it was obvious it would be designs used before but that was part of the attraction. The Embroiderers Guild has a plethora of amazing patterns, however, the choices made here are poor. If you're looking for a challenge, or even for something different, this is not the book for you.

Excellent quality transfers with well designed examples by a well known embroiderer in a beautifully photographed and written book.

loved the history behind the embroideries and the changes as the centuries progressed. So often we just look at embroideries but its great to see how they were done. The illustrations are clear & close ups are very detailed. It is divided into different technique sections so quick to find specific areas of interest but also can be read as a book in its own right.