Review: OK but how to use the designs from a Kindle?
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 27, 2012
First of all,Flower Motifs for Embroideryis a huge ebook, almost 3 Mb resulting from the use of so many images. It wouldn't take very many books of this size to fill up your Kindle.The book begins with images of instructions for 14 basic embroidery stitches. The diagrams and instructions appear to have been cut from an embroidery book. The book says it includes 126 flower motifs. Many designs are repeated more than once in the book, but the total different designs is probably 126. The author might want to consider removing some of the duplicates to reduce the book size. Unfortunately, many of the design images appear to have been manipulated and pulled out of shape by improper resizing. There are no instructions, suggested stitches, or examples of the finished product, just the barebones outlines of flowers and trees. I would have liked to have seen at least a few of the designs actually embroidered, but the book description is clear that this is not an instructional book. The book does include information about using a light table as well as a couple of alternatives for transfering the design to the fabric.The whole idea seems a little off to me. There are many websites which offer free flower motifs on the internet with the advantage that you could save the pattern, resize it, and print the design for use, something which you can't do from a Kindle. Just a few minutes googling for free flower motifs resulted in several nice websites. Over all, though, I suppose the book is worth the small price but it seems that it would be more useful from the Kindle4PC than from the Kindle device.As an aside, I visited the author's websites. She is a hugely talented doll maker. Now that would make a fantastic book!