Creative Embroidery & Beyond by Jenny Billingham, Sophie Timms and Theresa Wensing

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I grew up in the 90s and life was so, so beautiful and simple back in the day! Im sounding 80! But, it is true! My grandmother got me interested in embroidery and knitting and free hand drawing in the summer vacations. Going out was not really an option and getting bored meant that we had to choose between doing something more constructive or just get back to studying! Now who wanted to study again!?! So  choosing a hobby it was. I took to crochet more than any other form of creativity but I was like this jack of all trades.

In recent times, when time fell onto my lap and I took up reading with a vengeance, I also started feeling this deep urge to do some embroidery. Go back to learning and learning has no age. 

This book is a good insight to the different things you can do with your embroidery skills. It is a wonderful artist's coffee table book. It does give you some pointers of where you can embroider, but I wish it gave me a little more detail. In comparison, there are a lot more sites and pictures and instructions that are available on the internet but for those who love a book by the bedside to calm your eyes end of the day, this is a good choice. 

- A NetGalley Review

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